Abel Briquet Vistas Mexicanas photograph collection [picture]. [1890-1910]

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Abel Briquet Vistas Mexicanas photograph collection [picture]. [1890-1910]

16 photographic prints ; 16 x 19 cm. (mounted to 28 x 36 cm.) Housed in a clamshell box covered in burgunday linen.

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University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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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: ...