Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Everett Pomeroy 1/2 Snap shot at Mexico
- Dates:
- 1900
- Creators:
- Pomeroy, Everett, 1839-
- Abstract:
- A typescript of a travelogue detailing Everett Pomeroy's 1900 trip to Mexico, supplemented with 71 photographs and illustrations. The journal includes observations on Mexican culture and history, but is mainly focused on the excitements and frustrations of a Catholic American tourist in Mexico at the turn of the century.
- Extent:
- 109 leaves : paper, ill., photos ; 240 x 197 mm. bound to 253 x 213 mm.
- Language:
- Finding aid is written in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Everett Pomeroy 1/2 Snap shot at Mexico (Collection 170/567). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Pomeroy traveled from El Paso, Texas to Mexico City, stopping off at Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Aguas Calientes, Guadalajara, and Guanajuato along the way. The manuscript largely consists of observations on the daily hardships of an American tourist in Mexico; at several points, Pomeroy offers lengthy remarks on hotels and tourist spots. He is also deeply interested in the troubled relationship between the Catholic Church and the Mexican government under Porfirio Diaz, a government he perceives as dangerously liberal and anti-Catholic. The author has included two newspaper clippings that support his assertions. Pomeroy's understanding of Mexican history is heavily dependent upon William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico, a work to which he makes repeated reference in the text.
Some of the travelogue's more interesting components are its numerous photographs. Several of the photographs are part of numbered series: five from No. 316-403; fourteen from No. 5202-5660, four from No. 5604-5660; and four from B2166-B2180; ten photographs are hand-colored. The photographs in the series depict prominent buildings and well-known tourist sites, while the hand-colored photographs depict Mexicans in traditional dress engaged in everyday activities.
- Biographical / historical:
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Everett Pomeroy was born in 1839 and lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. The manuscript indicates that he was a Catholic American, and that he entered Mexico on December 31, 1899. He was also the author of "The Great Reformation," a Great Mistake ... by a Layman (1912).
- Processing information:
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Cataloged by Jonathan Naito, with assistance from Jain Fletcher and Laurel McPhee, August 2004, in the Center For Primary Research and Training (CFPRT).
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Manuscripts.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2009
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from database containing container list structure and data, encoding added via MS Access and Notetab Pro; Date of source: 2004-2007; frontmatter gathered MARC Record. Supplementary encoding and revision supplied by Caroline Cubé.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Everett Pomeroy 1/2 Snap shot at Mexico (Collection 170/567). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988