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Title: Views of Belém, Brazil
Date (inclusive): circa 1870-1879
Number: 95.R.51
Physical Description:
16 photographic prints
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles 90049-1688
Business Number: (310) 440-7390
Fax Number: (310) 440-7780
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Abstract: Sixteen photographs by an unidentified
photographer document the northern Brazilian port city of Belém in the 1870s.
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Language: Collection material is in
English.
The photographs in this collection were taken in Brazil by an unknown photographer,
probably in the 1870s.
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Views of Belém, Brazil, circa 1870-1879, Getty Research Institute, Research Library,
Accession no. 95.R.51
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa95r51
Acquired in 1995.
Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant
funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).
The collecrion was digitized by the repository in 2022 and the images are available
online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/95r51
Scope and Content of Collection
Views of the waterfront and docks predominate in this collection of 16 albumen prints by an
unidentified photographer documenting the northern Brazilian port city of Belém (then known
as Pará), center of the Amazonian rubber boom in the late nineteenth century. Other images
show buildings (Teatro da Paz, Portuguese hospital, commercial bank, convent, bathhouse) and
street views (Rua do Imperador, Rua do Conselheiro).
Photographs are mounted recto and verso on eight sheets. The former name of the city, Pará,
is written on all of the mounts below the images, in eight instances with additional
description. These captions have been used as image titles. Titles for the remaining eight
images were devised by the archivist.
The collection is arranged in a single series: Series I.: Views of Belém, Brazil, circa
1870-1879.
Waterfronts -- Brazil -- Belém
Docks -- Brazil -- Belém
Belém (Brazil) -- Description and travel
Belém (Brazil) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Albumen prints -- Brazil -- Belém -- 19th century