Mexico mining photograph album, circa 1906-1908

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Summary

Title:: Mexico mining photograph album
Dates:: circa 1906-1908
Abstract:: Album containing 458 black-and-white photographs with few handwritten captions, taken in northwestern Mexico and southern California, relating primarily to a mining operation.
Extent:: 0.92 linear feet (1 oversize box)
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: [Identification of Item], Mexico mining photograph album, Wyles Mss 196. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

Album contains 458 black-and-white photographs with a few handwritten captions, taken in Northwestern Mexico and Southern California, relating primarily to a mining operation. Mexico images feature a ranch hotel and several groups of Mexican women; men on horseback; marketscenes; desert shots with cacti, mountains; adobes with thatched roofs; views of Guaymas Bay and boats; trains; street views with buildings and churches; a survey team; men panning in a river; pack donkeys carrying supplies; miners, shaft entrances in the hillsides, mine shaft headframes.

Other photos, most likely taken in California, include campsites and tents; shipboard views; beach scenes; homes and gardens; group photos in the woods. Locations identified include Fuerte River, Choix, Urique, Cristo Verde, Colon, Batopilas, Guaymas Bay (Mexico); Los Angeles (California).

Acquisition information:

Library purchase, 2013.

Physical location:

Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Photograph albums
Photographs
Places:: California, Southern -- Pictorial works
Mexico -- Pictorial works

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid prepared by Special Collections staff, 2014.
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2019-03-06 11:10:10 -0800 .

Access and use

Restrictions:: The collection is open for research.
Terms of access:: 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 mining photograph album, Wyles Mss 196. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:: UC Santa Barbara, Special Research Collections

UC Santa Barbara Library

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US