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Captain Edgar Wakeman collection of Mexican and Southwestern photographs /
BANC PIC 19xx.254--CLOCAL
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Title:

Captain Edgar Wakeman collection of Mexican and Southwestern photographs

Creator/Contributor:

Edgerton, H. H., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Wakeman, Edgar, 1818-1875

Abstract:

Includes views of the steamer John L. Stephens, scenes in Mazatlan, Guaymas, Cape San Lucas, Arizona, and at the Colorado Mines. Some captions indicate a location of Colorado, but this may be a locale in Mexico or Arizona. Several views include groups of Papago Indians. One small image on mount no. 8 shows a large format camera at Fuerte Mazatlan.

Date:

approximately 1866 (issued)

Subject:

n-mx--- -- n-us-az
Tohono O'odham Indians -- Photographs
Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Photographs
Papago -- Photographies
Peuples autochtones -- Arizona -- Photographies
Indians of North America
Tohono O'odham Indians
Mazatlán (Sinaloa, Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Cabo San Lucas (Baja California Sur, Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Guaymas (Sonora, Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Colorado Mines -- Pictorial works
Arizona -- Pictorial works
Arizona -- Ouvrages illustrés
Arizona
Mexico -- Cabo San Lucas (Baja California Sur)
Mexico -- Guaymas (Sonora)
Mexico -- Mazatlán (Sinaloa)
John L. Stephens (Steamboat) -- Pictorial works

Note:

by H.H. Edgerton.
7 large views, each on a mount, and 16 small views on a single mount.
Mounts bear name H.H. Edgerton, and are inscribed to Capt. Edgar Wakeman. Captioned in manuscript. One image bears initials "HHE" in negative.
One mount date 1866. Others undated.
Photographer H.H. Edgerton may be a relation of Henry Edgerton of Calif., to whom Capt. Wakeman refers in his: The log of an ancient mariner : being the life and adventures of Captain Edgar Wakeman (p. 293).

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Albumen prints.

Physical Description:

photoprint
23 photographic prints on 8 mounts : albumen ; images 22 x 29 cm and 6 x 9 cm, mounts 44 x 51 cm

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 19xx.254--CLOCAL

Origin:

Various places