Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Guatemala photograph album
- Dates:
- circa 1949
- Abstract:
- Album of 256 original black-and-white photographs, with the simple label "Guatemala '49" affixed to the front cover. Photographer unknown.
- Extent:
- 0.917 linear feet (1 oversize box)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Guatemala photograph album, Bernath Mss 493. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
- Library purchase, 2015.
- Physical location:
- Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Photographs
Photograph albums - Places:
- Guatemala -- Pictorial works
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2019-03-06 09:55:11 -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], Guatemala photograph album, Bernath Mss 493. 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