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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Portraits of Peruvians
Creator: Ugarte, Luis S.
Creator: Correa
Creator: Castillo, Rafael, active 1867-1898
Creator: Courret Hermanos
Creator: Barraza, Alberto
Creator: La Torre
Identifier/Call Number: 96.R.85
Physical Description: 396 items(glass negatives, film negatives, photographic prints)
Date (inclusive): circa 1855-circa 1939
Abstract: A collection of negatives for formal studio portraits, mainly of middle- and upper-class Limeños, taken in Peru.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in Spanish.
The collection of glass negatives by various makers was compiled by an unidentified collector.
Arranged in two series: Series I. Glass negatives; Series II. Prints from negatives not in the collection.
Open for use by qualified researchers. Boxes 1, 2, and 5 are restricted. Box 4 contains use copies.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection comprises formal studio portraits, mainly of middle and upper class Limeños. Formats include wet collodion,
gelatin silver, and black & white glass negatives; duplicate gelatin silver film negatives; and gelatin silver prints. The
photography studios for 55 of the 116 glass plate negatives have been identified as follows: Barraza (1); Rafael Castillo
(27); Correa (3); Courret Hermanos (2); La Torre (1); Ugarte (21). Included are individual and family portraits; portraits
of babies, children, and young boys in military uniform; young women; young men; married couples; children in carnival costumes;
and soldiers and officers. The portraits depict people of various races and ethnicities including Black Peruvians and Chinese
immigrants.
The studios for 61 images taken between the 1860s and the 1920s havew not been identified. In addition to the types of sitter
mentioned above this group also includes several occupational portraits of rabanas (female camp followers), nuns, mercachifles
(street vendors), musicians, and mendicants. There are also views of Lima and environs (the Plaza de Armas; the fashionable
neighborhood of Rimac; the port of Callao). Street scenes and public gatherings include a procession of the Señor de los Milagros,
and a military procession.
The collection also contains 46 modern photographic prints made from glass plate negatives not found in the collection, and
two photographic prints made from plates in the collection. The sitters in these images are unidentified; the types of sitters
represented are similar to those mentioned above.
Processed by Beth Ann Guynn and Lynn Tapia in 1996. Cataloged by Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding
from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).
Portraits of Peruvians, circa 1855-circa 1939, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 96.R.85.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa96r85
Acquired in 1996.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Studio portraits -- Peru -- 19th century
Gelatin silver prints -- Peru -- 20th century
Studio portraits -- Peru -- 20th century
Occupations -- Peru
Indigenous peoples -- Peru -- Portraits
Peru -- Social life and customs
Peru -- Portraiture
Gelatin dry plate negatives -- Peru -- 20th century
Wet collodion negatives -- Peru -- 19th century
Streets -- Peru -- Lima
Processions, Religious -- Peru -- Lima