Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
[Paynter Bros. photographs of Costa Rica].
Collection Number:
No online items
Collection Overview
Title:
[Paynter Bros. photographs of Costa Rica]Creator/Contributor:
Paynter Bros, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Rudd, Harrison Nathaniel, photographer.Abstract:
Professional views taken in Costa Rica in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Subjects include various views
of San José, the volcanoes Turrialba and Poás, the Northern Railway, and the Teatro Nacional. Also includes views of the Río
Grande, agriculture and agricultural laborers, natural scenery, unidentified indigenous peoples, and ruins of a church in
Ujarras.
Date:
1890 (issued)Subject:
nccr---Volcanoes -- Costa Rica -- Photographs
Railroads -- Costa Rica -- Photographs
Volcans -- Costa Rica -- Photographies
Railroads
Volcanoes
Costa Rica -- Photographs
San José (Costa Rica) -- Photographs
Costa Rica
Costa Rica -- San José
Teatro Nacional (Costa Rica) -- Photographs
Teatro Nacional (Costa Rica)
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
No photographers' names present. Photographed by Paynter Bros. studio, and possibly Harrison Nathaniel Rudd, per research
of bookseller.
Most images described by hand-written captions, in English, on backs of mounts.
Many images include a photographer's number written in negative.
Purchase from Globus Books ; 2022.
Paynter Bros. studio opened in 1895 in San José, Costa Rica by William Paynter McBird (or McBurt) and his brothers Luke and
Richard, after the dissolution of William's partnership with Harrision Nathaniel Rudd, which began approximately in 1890.
Paynter Bros. photographs of Costa Rica, BANC PIC 2022.127, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs
Albumen prints.
Physical Description:
photoprint
47 photographs in 1 box : albumen prints on card mounts ; prints 19 x 23 cm, mounts 25 x 33 cm
Language:
English