Mexican views [graphic]. ca. 1890-1900.

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Mexican views [graphic]. ca. 1890-1900.

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Album of 7 commercially produced views and 72 high quality amateur views taken during a trip through Mexico by an unidentified party from the U.S.A. Views include cityscapes, street scenes, people, architecture, flora, etc. Among the locations depicted are Mexico City (especially the vicinity of Castillo de Chapultepec), Silao, Guanajuato, Zacatecas and Orizaba. Among the tourists pictured is the Ohio smallpox specialist Dr. William Thomas Corlett.

1 album (79 photographic prints) : b&w ; 27 x 22 cm.

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Castillo de Chapultepec (Mexico City, Mexico)

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Pellandini, C.

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Corlett, William Thomas, 1854-1948

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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: ...