Guide to the Mexico photograph album Wyles Mss 194
Finding aid prepared by Special Collections staff, 2014.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
special@library.ucsb.edu
2014 April 25
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.
The collection is open for research.
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[Identification of Item], Mexico photograph album, Wyles Mss 194. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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
Box 1
Mexico photograph album 1900-1904