Access Restrictions
Use Restrictions
Preferred Citation
Scope and Content
Title: Mexico photograph album
Identifier/Call Number: Wyles Mss 194
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.21 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Date (inclusive): 1900-1904
Abstract: Album contains 167 uncaptioned black-and-white photographs of scenes in Mexico.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Mexico photograph album, Wyles Mss 194. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Scope and Content
Album contains 167 uncaptioned black-and-white photographs of scenes in Mexico. Images include many local people, including
street vendors, musicians, families; street scenes, buildings, fountains, parks, churches; a parade; markets with pottery,
produce, plants; sheep, cattle; adobe houses; desert shots of mountains, yucca, rivers; a mining operation; bull fights; cock
fights; pack donkeys carrying loads. Many of the indigenous people pictured appear to be extremely poor, living in small shelters.
Several photos toward the end of the album appear to be in the U.S. at the album creator's home, with the final photo being
a woman carried in a sedan chair by Chinese men.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mexico -- Pictorial works
Photographs
Photograph albums