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Souvenirs du Mexique [graphic]
BANC PIC 1998.031--fALBLOCALBANC FILM 2474LOCAL
Collection Overview

Title:

Souvenirs du Mexique

Creator/Contributor:

Disderi, André Adolphe Eugène, 1819-1890

Creator/Contributor:

Ghémar Freres

Abstract:

Album includes 33 cartes-de-visite sized portraits of Emperor Maximilian and his consort Carlota and other political and military figures (including Benito Juárez, Santa Anna, and Miguel Miramón.) Also present are 31 full-plate sized views of buildings, streets, a palace and gardens (possibly at Chapultepec?), a church, wagons (and wagon making or repair), a mausoleum, military encampments and drills, Aztec(?) carvings (including the calendar stone), and general views of Mexico City.

Date:

ca. 1865 (issued)

Subject:

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Emperor of Mexico -- Maximilian -- 1832-1867 -- Portraits
Empress, consort of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico -- Carlota -- 1840-1927 -- Portraits
Juárez, Benito -- 1806-1872 -- Portraits
Santa Anna, Antonio López de -- 1794-1876 -- Portraits
Miramón, Miguel -- 1831-1867 -- Portraits
Mexico -- Pictorial works
Mexico City (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Mexico -- History -- European intervention, 1861-1867 -- Pictorial works

Note:

Title from cover.
Photographers unidentified. Some portraits attributed to Ghémar Frères and Disdéri (cf. Aguilar Ochoa, Arturo. La Fotografia durante el imperio de Maximiliano.)
Also on microfilm.

Type:

graphic
Albumen prints.
Photograph albums.

Physical Description:

graphic
photoprint
1 album (64 photographic prints) : albumen ; album 32 x 27 cm., images 20 x 26 cm. or smaller.
1 microfilm reel : negative (Box 2639) and positive.

Language:

French

Identifier:

BANC PIC 1998.031--fALBLOCAL
BANC FILM 2474LOCAL

Origin:

Mexico