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Bernath Mss 493
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Title: Guatemala photograph album
Identifier/Call Number: Bernath Mss 493
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.917 linear feet
(1 oversize box)
Date: circa 1949
Abstract: Album of 256 original black-and-white photographs, with the simple label "Guatemala '49" affixed to the front cover. Photographer
unknown.
The collection is open for research.
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.
[Identification of Item], Guatemala photograph album, Bernath Mss 493. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa
Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Library purchase, 2015.
Album of 256 original black-and-white photographs, with the simple label "Guatemala '49" affixed to the front cover. Photographer
unknown. There are brief handwritten captions throughout (some identifying individual images, some used to describe all the
images on a page).
Subject matter includes urban street scenes; several busy markets and street vendors selling food, pottery, wool, blankets,
livestock; colonial-era buildings; pre-Columbian monuments and ruins; a volcanic eruption; a carnival; and rural people and
scenes of everyday life such as washing clothes, traveling, food preparation, harvesting bananas. Locations identified by
the captions include Guatemala City, Quetzaltenango, El Baul, Santiaguito volcano, San Juan Ostuncalco, San Martin, San Francisco,
Huehuetenango, Zaculeu, and Puerto Barrios, among others.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs
Photograph albums
Guatemala -- Pictorial works