Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Mexico photograph album
- Dates:
- 1900-1904
- Abstract:
- Album contains 167 uncaptioned black-and-white photographs of scenes in Mexico.
- Extent:
- 0.21 linear feet (1 half-size document box)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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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.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Physical location:
- Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Photographs
Photograph albums - Places:
- Mexico -- Pictorial works
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2019-03-06 08:51:46 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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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:
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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.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062