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Colburn (Forrest D.) Collection of Photographs of Mexico and Peru
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Mario Algaze

Box 6

Untitled (view of a llama at Machu Picchu) 2002

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Lola Álvarez Bravo

Box 3

Pinta y pinta (He Paints and Paints) 1965 (printed 1981)

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, mounted on board, signed in pencil on the recto of the mount
 

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Box 4, Folder 13

Untitled (ceramic figure of a man sitting on a bull) circa late 1920s-early 1930s

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, mounted on stiff paper, artist's signature in pencil on the recto
Box 6

Film still from The Pearl 1945

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print. In the bottom, right-hand corner there is inscribed in the negative Perla, 105, MAB (for Manuel Álvarez Bravo). There is also a blind stamp of John Steinbeck.

Biographical / Historical

The Pearl, a Mexican-American film directed by Emilio Fernández and released in 1947. The film is based on the 1947 novella The Pearl by John Steinbeck. (Steinbeck began writing the story as a movie script in 1944.) The cinematography for the film was by Gabriel Figueroa. (In an interview published in Luna Córnea [Número 24, 2002, pp. 300-303], Figueroa's son recounts that Manuel Álvarez Bravo was the "stillman" for the film.)
Box 7, Folder 8

Untitled (interior of a church) circa 1950

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, artist's signature in pencil on verso.
Shelf 118

En el Templo del Tigre Rojo ms0287_pho_0075 1949

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, mounted on board, framed.
 

Hugo Brehme 1920-1930

Box 1:2

Untitled. [Horse in front of gate with view of Popocatépetl], ms0287_pho_0003 circa 1920

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print

General

Note: This image was included in a major exhibition in New York of Hugo Brehme's photography which accompanied Susan Toomey Frost's book, Timeless Mexico: The Photographs of Hugo Brehme
Box 1:2

Pachuca, Hidalgo, ms0287_pho_0004 circa 1920

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print on original mount
Box 1:2

Untitled. [Post office in Mexico City], ms0287_pho_0005 circa 1920

Physical Description: Rose tinted gelatin silver print
Box 1:2

El Correo Mayor. [Post office in Mexico City], ms0287_pho_0006 circa 1920

Physical Description: Silver print, carte-postale
Box 1:2

Untitled. [Men walking along train tracks carrying fishing nets], ms0287_pho_0007 circa 1920

Physical Description: Silver print, carte-postale
Box 1:2

Uruapan 1675 La Tzarácua. [The Tzarácua waterfalls at Uruapan, Michoacán], ms0287_pho_0008 circa 1920

Physical Description: Silver print, carte-postale
Box 2:1

3724 Popocatépetl, México ms0287_pho_0027 1920

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 2:1

721 Popocatépetl ms0287_pho_0028 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 2:1

2138 Trasporte de Maderas ms0287_pho_0029 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 2:1

6515 Ferrocarril Mexicano ms0287_pho_0030

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 2:1

Santa Rosa ms0287_pho_0031 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 2:1

Popocatépetl circa 1920s

Physical Description: Hand-colored, gelatin silver print mounted on a stiff board, title and artist's signature inscribed in pencil on the recto of the mount.
Box 2:2

6059 Sacromonte, Amecameca ms0287_pho_0032 1930

Box 3

Sacromonte, Amecameca ms0287_pho_0033 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 3

Cholula, Pirámide ms0287_pho_0034 1923

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 5:3

150 Ixtlazíhuatl ms0287_pho_0067 1920

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, carte-de-viste
Box 5:3

29 Ixtlazíhuatl, desde la Cima del Popocatépetl ms0287_pho_0068 1920

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, carte-de-viste
Box 7:1

728 Amecameca con Ixtlazíhuatl 1920

Box 9

6863 Transporte de café, México circa 1920s

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print postcard.
Box 7, Folder 1

5868 Ruinas de Mitla circa 1920s

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print postcard
Box 1:4

Abel Briquet circa 1895-1896

 

235 Rurales, Estado de México. [Rural guards. From the portfolio, Tipos Mexicanos], ms0287_pho_0010 circa 1895

Physical Description: Albumen print
 

No. 15 Carreta, Estado de Jalisco. [Mexican ox team and cart], ms0287_pho_0011 1896

Physical Description: Albumen print
 

Untitled. [Santa Anita Village], ms0287_pho_0012 circa 1895

Physical Description: Albumen print
 

Untitled. [Woman and men around park fountain], ms0287_pho_0013 circa 1895

Physical Description: Albumen print
 

Martín Chambi 1930-1949

Box 4:7

"venta de chicha" [group of Indigenous women selling chicha] ms0287_pho_0048 1930-1939

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard
Box 4:7

"venta de chicha" [Indigenous woman selling chicha] ms0287_pho_0049 1930-1939

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard
Box 4:7

A Stone Inca Wall on the Outskirts of Cuzco ms0287_pho_0050 1934-09-06

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard
Box 4:7

A Religious Procession in Cuzco ms0287_pho_0051 1930-1939

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard
Box 4:7

Members of the Well-To-Do in Cuzco Dancing in the Countryside ms0287_pho_0052 1930-1939

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard
Box 4:7

A Monument at the Inca Site of Kenko (Q'inqu) Outside of Cuzco ms0287_pho_0053 1940-1949

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 4:7

The Inca Ruins of Machu Picchu ms0287_pho_0054 1940-1949

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 5:1

Untitled [View of five Indigenous people and a llama with an Inca stone wall in the background] ms0287_pho_0062 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 5:1

Untitled [View of Cuzco] ms0287_pho_0063 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 5:1

Untitled [Inca ruins with serpent design over doorway] ms0287_pho_0064 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 5:1

Untitled [Inca ruins] ms0287_pho_0065 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 5:2

Untitled [View of the Inca stone wall on the street Hatunrumiyoc in Cuzco] ms0287_pho_0061 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 6

Untitled [View of the ruins of Machu Picchu] ms0287_pho_0074 1940-1949

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print.
Box 7, Folder 6

Eva Elvira Velasco ms0287_pho_0072 1935

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, blue toned and used as a carte-de-visite.
Box 7, Folder 6

Templo del Sol, Santo Domingo, Cuzco ms0287_pho_0073 1930-1939

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print.
Box 7, Folder 6

Fortalezas de Ollantaytambo, Cuzco, Perú undated

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print. Artist's stamp and title inscribed in pencil on the verso.
Box 10

Balsas en el Lago Titicaca, Puno, Perú circa 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard, title printed on the verso and artist's stamp on the verso.
Box 2:4

Nugent M. Clougher 1910

 

State of Oaxaca, Mexico ms0287_pho_0037 1910

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Percy S. Cox

Box 4, Folder 14

Fountain, Querétaro circa 1900

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Percy S. Cox and Ralph J. Carmichael

Box 4, Folder 14

Chapel on Sacromonte circa 1900

Physical Description: Rose-tinted, albumen print, title and artists' names inscribed in the negative, artists' stamp on the verso
Box 4, Folder 14

Village of Peñón circa 1900

Physical Description: Rose-tinted, albumen print, title and artists' names inscribed in the negative, artists' stamp on the verso
Box 4, Folder 14

Churubusco Church circa 1900

Physical Description: Rose-tinted, albumen print, title and artists' names inscribed in the negative, artists' stamp on the verso
Box 4, Folder 14

Water Girls Guadalajara circa 1900

Physical Description: Rose-tinted, albumen print, title and artists' names inscribed in the negative
 

Héctor García

Box 3

Untitled (Women walking through a barren landscape) circa 1940-1949

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, stamped on verso
 

Nelly García

Box 8

04° 34' 00" S 081° 18' 00" W 2010

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, inscribed in pencil on the recto P/A (artist's proof), framed.
Box 10

Untitled (ocean view) 2012

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, mounted on board, inscribed in pencil on the recto mount. "p/a" (artist's proof), "a Spence" (gift to the New York photography dealer Spence Throckmorton), artist's signature.
 

Emilio Garreaud

Box 9

Inca Building Pisac 1864

Physical Description: Albumen print mounted on stiff board. Artist's name inscribed in negative, title inscribed in ink on the recto of the mount (perhaps not by the artist). Two photographs on verso: 1. Photographer unknown (possibly Emilio Garreaud) Part of Fortress, Ollantaytambo, circa 1850-1900. 2. Maximiliano Telésforo Vargas (better known as Max T. Vargas) Ruinas de la fortaleza incaica de Ollantaytambo, Gelatin silver print postcard, circa 1910.
 

Fernando Garreaud

Box 10

Llamas—A Pack Train, San Mateo, Peru circa 1895

Physical Description: Albumen print attached to a stiff board, artist's name inscribed in the negative, title on the retro of the board

Biographical / Historical

Son of the French photographer Emilio Garreaud, 1834-1875, who worked in Peru between 1855-1860.
Box 4:6

Manuel J. Glave 1935

 

[The Mountains Surrounding Arequipa with a Group of Hikers] ms0287_pho_0044 1935

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

[A Group of Hikers under a Large Cross in the Mountains of Arequipa] ms0287_pho_0045

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Fotografia Tomada de Entre los dos Crateres Hacia la Cruz ms0287_pho_0046 1935

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Enorme Piedra que hay en el "Callejon" Entre los dos Crateres ms0287_pho_0047 1935

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Gove & North

Box 7, Folder 7

Monument Azteca found in Teotihuacan circa 1880

Physical Description: Albumen print
Box 1:6

O.B. Hachenberger circa 1940

 

Untitled. [View of a canal, probably in Xochimilco, Mexico City], ms0287_pho_0022 circa 1940

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Untitled. [View of women washing clothes], ms0287_pho_0023 circa 1940

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Untitled. [View of the volcano Popocatépetl, with a field of maguey in the foreground], ms0287_pho_0024 circa 1940

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Untitled. [View of the volcano Ixtlazíhuatl, with a man on horseback in the foreground], ms0287_pho_0025 circa 1940

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Untitled. [View of Xochimilco, with a man and woman in a canoe], ms0287_pho_0026 circa 1940

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Teotihuacan Pyramids circa 1940

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 4:1

Courret Hermanos 1863-1935

 

Portrait of Hernando de Lavalle y Pardo as a Young Man ms0287_pho_0038 1871

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Portrait of Juan Lavalle Taken at the Age of One Year and Nine Months and Presented to His Physician, Doctor Concha ms0287_pho_0039 1890

Physical Description: Albumen print, carte-de-visite
Box 4:4

Vargas Hermanos 1920

 

Oval Shaped Portrait of a Young Girl, in a Dress Adorned with Lace and a Bonnet ms0287_pho_0042 1920

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, original mount
Box 1:1

Alberto Holm circa 1900

 

Untitled. [Girl carrying mats and ropes on her back] ms0287_pho_0001 circa 1900

Physical Description: Platinum print on original mount
 

Untitled. [Man carrying baskets on his back] ms0287_pho_0002 circa 1900

Physical Description: Platinum print on original mount
 

Walter H. Horne

Box 7, Folder 4

Triple Execution in Mexico #2 1916

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard, artist's name and title inscribed in the negative

Historical note

This photograph is shows the execution of three condemned prisoners on January 15, 1916 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Box 7, Folder 4

"Yaqui Indians of Mexico" circa 1916

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard, artist's name and title inscribed in negative
Box 7, Folder 4

Burial Scene circa 1916

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard, artist's name and title inscribed in negative
Box 7, Folder 4

Mexican Family circa 1916

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard, artist's name and title inscribed in negative
Box 10

Ruins of City Hall, Juárez, Mexico: Rebels in Action 1911-1919

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard. Title inscribed in the negative.

Biographical / Historical

There were two major battles in Ciudad Juárez during the Mexican Revolution, one in 1911 and one in 1919. It is not clear which battle is captured in this photograph.
 

William Henry Jackson 1883-1884

Box 1:3

5276 Mexico, Fountain and Square of San Domingo, ms0287_pho_0009 1883-1884

Physical Description: Albumen print
 

Guillermo Kahlo 1871-1941

Box 7:3

La Calzada de los Poetas en Chapultepec, The Promedade of the Poets in Chapultepec 1910

 

Juan Kaiser

Box 7, Folder 6

Aguadoras (Water vessels) circa 1905

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard
Box 7, Folder 6

Cargando caña (Carrying sugarcane) circa 1905

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard
 

Keystone View Company (Meadville, Pennsylvania)

Box 7

The Cofa Bridge on the Oroya Railway, Peru circa 1910

Physical Description: Glass lantern slide
 

C.A. Lesher

Box 10

Seven of sixteen photographs taken for the Mexico View Company depicting a Mexican coffee plantation and its workers circa 1925

Physical Description: Gelatin silver prints
 

Foto Lima

Box 7

Cuzco, Peru circa 1950s

Physical Description: Set of 12 small photographs in a paper case. On the verso of each photographs is a title and description of the subject of the photograph.
Box 7, Folder 6

Machupicchu, Peru: Vista general circa 1950s

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard
 

Leo Matiz

Box 6

Untitled (Mexican woman) 1943

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print. Artist's signature on verso.
Box 4, Folder 11

Untitled (Frida Kahlo) 1946

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print mounted on stiff paper. Artist's signature and date on recto of mount, blind stamp on recto (of photograph and mount), and artist's stamp on verso of mount.
 

Foto Mestres

Biographical / Historical

No further information known, other than his or her studio was at Carmen Alto, No. 1206 in Lima.
Box 4, Folder 10

Untitled (man dressed as a laborer, holding the bridle of a horse which has won a prize, most likely from a fair) undated

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 4, Folder 10

Untitled (man wearing a tie and boots holding the bridle of a horse) undated

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Nacho López

Box 7, Folder 6

Dijo verdad quien dijo que nadie es más valiente que el mexicano 1949

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print Title and date inscribed in pencil on the verso, with annotations also inscribed in pencil suggesting that the photograph was published.
 

Maneul Mancilla 1897-1953

Box 5:1

"Arequipa, Perú" [View of an Indigenous woman and two children at Inca ruins] ms0287_pho_0058 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 9

Visitantes al Balneario de Jesús (just outside of Arequipa) 1926

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, title and date inscribed in pencil and artist's stamp on the verso
Box 9

Comedor del alojamiento de los Banos de Jesús 1926

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, title and date inscribed in pencil and artist's stamp on the verso
Box 7, Folder 6

India del Perú 1933

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard, artist's name inscribed in the negative, and title and date inscribed in ink on the verso
 

Tina Modotti

Box 7, Folder 5

Untitled (detail of a Mexican mural painted by Diego Rivera) circa 1926-1928

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 9

Untitled [Detail of Diego Rivera's mural Escuelas Bibliotecas Artes at the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), Mexico City] 1929

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 6

Untitled (Photograph of a work by José Clemente Orozco, Dance of the Top Hat) 1925-1929

Physical Description: Artist's stamp on the verso, and also on the verso are notations in pencil suggesting that the photograph was used to illustrate printed matter.

Custodial History

The provenance of this photograph begins with the German writer, B. Traven. He married Rosa Elena Luján. Traven intended to make a film about the Mexican mural movement and collected Modotti's photographs of the murals. The Luján family sold the collection of photographs at Sotheby's in the early 1990s. They were purchased by Spencer Throckmorton, the principal of Throckmorton Fine Art.
 

Eulogio Nishiyama

Box 7, Folder 4

Machu Picchu circa 1950

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard
Box 4:5

Jorge Bravo Pineda 1930

 

View of Arequipa with the Majestic Volcano El Misti in the Background ms0287_pho_0043 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Henry Ravell

Box 4, Folder 12

Untitled (Mexican charro) circa 1910

Physical Description: Gum bichromate print. Artist's signature in red ink on recto.
Shelf 118

Untitled (young Mexican woman in a doorway) circa 1910

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Gum bichromate print. Artist's signature in red ink on recto.
Shelf 118

Untitled (Plaza of Uruapan, Michoacán) circa 1910

Physical Description: Brown toned cyanotype. Artist's signature in red ink on recto.
 

Villroy L. Richardson

Shelf 118

Untitled (view of men working in front of a railroad tunnel, probably for the railroad line of Lima to La Oroya) circa 1870

Physical Description: Rose tinted albumen print, framed
 

Juan Rulfo

Box 3

Untitled (street scene with dark clouds) 1950

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print mounted on a board, artist's signature in ink with a dedication.
 

Winfield Scott 1863-1942

Box 5:4

393 Lake Patzcuaro - Outskirts of Mexico City ms0287_pho_0070 1900

Physical Description: Albumen print
Box 5:5

2203 Las Tortugas - A Patio ms0287_pho_0071 1900

Physical Description: Albumen print
 

Bernard Silberstein 1905-1999

Box 5:1

Children on Lake Titicaca Plaza ms0287_pho_0059 1938

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 5:1

Fiesta on the 6th of January (Day of the Kings) in Ollentaytombo ms0287_pho_0060 1943

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Javier Silva-Meinel

Box 7, Folder 4

Huacones, Huancano, Peru 1997

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
 

Paul Strand

Box 3

Near Saltillo 1940

Physical Description: Hand lacquered photogravure, first edition, signed and dated. The work is from the portfolio "Photographs in Mexico."
Box 4:2

R. La Torre 1890

 

Portrait of a Woman (Seated) and Her Son (Standing) ms0287_pho_0040 1890

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 4:3

Luis Ugarte 1918

 

Portrait of a Girl "Dressed Up" in an Oversized Shawl and a Man's Hat, and Holding a Tambourine. Identified on verso as Matildita. ms0287_pho_0041 1918

Physical Description: Gelatine silver print, carte-de-visite
 

Maximiliano Telésforo Vargas (Max T. Vargas)

Box 7, Folder 7

Ruinas del Palacio de Viracocha, Cuzco, Perú circa 1910

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard. Title printed in red ink on the recto. Artist's name printed on the verso.
Box 7:3

Juan D. Vasallo 1900-1920

Box 7:3

Vendiendo Pinas, Cordoba, Mexico 1910

 

Charles B. Waite 1896-1910

Box 1:5

Cascada de Aloyao, Veracruz (1392). [Texolo], ms0287_pho_0014 circa 1905

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 1:5

La Catedral de Puebla (152), ms0287_pho_0015 circa 1905

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 1:5

Sugar Cane on the Rio Uxpanapa, Estado de Vera Cruz (1573), ms0287_pho_0016 1906

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 1:5

Guadalupe Shrine, Cuernavca, Mexico (989), ms0287_pho_0017 1904

Physical Description: Albumen print
Box 1:5

Pachuca, On Line of Hidalgo Railroad (1120), ms0287_pho_0018 circa 1900

Physical Description: Albumen print
Box 1:5

Tunnel on Tampico Branch Mexican Central Railroad (207), ms0287_pho_0019 1905

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 1:5

Palacio Municipal, Monterrey, México (866), ms0287_pho_0020 circa 1900

Physical Description: Albumen print
Box 1:5

El Carmen San Luis Potosi, México (788), ms0287_pho_0021 circa 1900

Physical Description: Albumen print
Box 2:3

618 Entrance to Hall of Monoliths, Mitla ms0287_pho_0035 1900

Physical Description: Albumen print
Box 2:3

90 Rurales, Mexico ms0287_pho_0036 1896-1910

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 5:3

1643 Making Tortillas in Mexico ms0287_pho_0069 1905

Physical Description: Albumen print
Box 7:2

2253 Iztaciihuatl from Plaza Amecameca 1908

Box 7:2

1310 Birdseye View of Puebla, Mexico 1904

Box 7, Folder 2

1176 Monte Albán Oaxaca, Mexico, Caretaker and Casita 1904

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 10

98 Columba Quintana "Tehuantepec Street Costume" [traditional dress] circa 1905

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print. Title and artist's name inscribed in the negative.
 

I Carvajal (Studio Fotografía "Daguerre" in San Luis Potosí)

Box 7, Folder 5

Untitled (full-length portrait of a boy holding a stick in one hand and his other hand resting on a makeshift cabinet with drinking vessels) circa 1900

Physical Description: Albumen print mounted on board
 

Unknown Photographers 1890-1920

Box 4:8

Portrait of Two Young Women Wearing Identical Dresses, Probably Sisters, with the Family Dog in the Quintessential Furnished Home of the Upper Class in Lima ms0287_pho_0055 1910

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 4:8

Portrait of Four Children of Prosperous Members of the Japanese Colony in Peru ms0287_pho_0056 1890-1900

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 4:8

Portrait of an Angelic Doll Sitting on a Small Chair ms0287_pho_0057 1920

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, original mount
Box 4:8

Reinforced Concrete Chimney under construction for Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp. La Oroya, Peru by Alphons Custodis Chimney Constr. Co. 1936 June 20

Box 4, Folder 9

Film still from Flor Silvestre featuring actors Dolores del Río and Pedro Armendáriz 1944

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 4, Folder 9

Film still from Pepe featuring the comedian Cantinflas circa 1960

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 4, Folder 9

Film still from Debieron ahorcales antes featuring actors Mario Almada and Fernando Almada 1973

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print

Biographical / Historical

Mario Almada (1922-2016) appeared in over 200 films. He was also a director, writer, and film producer. His brother, Fernando Almada (1929- ), was also a well-known actor.
Box 4, Folder 9

Film still from Las hijas de don Laureano featuring comedian Manuel "Loco" Valdés circa 1974

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print
Box 5:3

Moonlight on the Gulf of Mexico ms0287_pho_0066 1884

Physical Description: Albumen print
Box 7, Folder 5

Untitled (portrait of Plutarco Elías Calles) circa 1925

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, postcard

Biographical / Historical

Plutarco Elías Calles, President of Mexico, 1924-1928, and founder of the political party that would come to be known as the Institutional Revolutionary Party [the PRI].
Box 7, Folder 5

Reinforced Concrete Chimney under Construction for Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., La Oroya, Peru 1936

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, title and date inscribed in ink on the verso
Box 7, Folder 5

Untitled (Portrait of a Peruvian man, taken in Lima, wearing a poncho and hat) circa 1870s

Physical Description: Tin photograph

Custodial History

The photograph was collected in Lima.
Box 7, Folder 5

Llamac, Huayhuash circa 1910

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print. Title inscribed in pencil on the verso.
Box 7, Folder 5

Untitled (Portrait of Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas and his son Cuauhtémoc) 1938

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, date stamped on the verso
Box 8

"Chunchus" (four women from the Asháninka tribe) circa 1930

Physical Description: Gelatin silver print, title inscribed in the negative, framed.

Biographical / Historical

"Chunchu" is an alternate name for the Asháninka tribe. It comes from a Quechua word meaning "forest dwellers." Chunchu has been used pejoratively in Peruvian Spanish, and it is not preferred by most Asháninka people. The Asháninka were known by the Inca as Anti or Campa.