Views from Mexico [graphic] / photographed by A. Briquet. ca. 1890.

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Views from Mexico [graphic] / photographed by A. Briquet. ca. 1890.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227544947

Contains views of statues in Mexico City and views (including churches and railroad bridges) from Chapultepec, Amecameca, Orizaba and other places in Mexico.

11 photographic prints : b&w ; 36 x 28 cm.

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Briquet, Abel

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Briquet was a French photographer that worked in Mexico. He was commissioned to photograph the railways being constructed at the start of Porfirio Diaz's presidency. He also shot natural portraits of Mexican life and images depicting the growth of cities and the development of the country through the turn of the century. (http://www.getty.edu/news/press/exhibit/mexico.ht ml). From the description of Vistas Mexicanas, ca. 1880-ca. 1900. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: ...