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Zihuatanejo Railroad [Michoacan, Mexico] Photograph Album, 1936.
Bernath Mss 266LOCAL
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Title:
Zihuatanejo Railroad [Michoacan, Mexico] Photograph Album, 1936Creator/Contributor:
Garcia, Rafael.Creator/Contributor:
Online Archive of CaliforniaAbstract:
Album contains clippings and 34 black and white photographs documenting the construction of the Zihuatanejo Railroad and showing
views from along a section of the route from Tacambaro to Uruapan. Images include scenic and street views of Tacambaro; railroad
officials and construction workers; irrigation canal construction; Lake Patzcuaro and islands: Isla Pacanda, including school
and schoolchildren on the island, and Morelos monument on Isla Janitzio; plant nurseries in Uruapan; construction of the railroad;
scenic views of Zirimicuaro; Tzararacua waterfalls. Photographs all have stamp on verso for photographer Rafael Garcia, Tacubaya
D.F.
Date:
1936 (issued)Subject:
n-mx---Railroads -- Mexico
Railroads
Uruapan del Progreso (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Tacámbaro (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Pátzcuaro, Lake (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Pátzcuaro, Lac de (Mexique) -- Ouvrages illustrés
Mexico
Mexico -- Lake Pátzcuaro
Mexico -- Tacámbaro
Mexico -- Uruapan del Progreso
Note:
Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.
Purchase, 2007.
Cite as: [Identification of item], Zihuatanejo Railroad [Michoacan, Mexico] Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 266. Department
of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Type:
Photographs.photographs.
photograph albums.
clippings (information artifacts)
Pictorial works.
Photographs.
Photographies.
Albums photographiques.
Coupures de presse.
Physical Description:
.2 linear ft.
Language:
Spanish
Identifier:
Bernath Mss 266LOCAL
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
Use of the collection is unrestricted.
Use governed by UCSB Special Collections policy.