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Ubero Plantation, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico [graphic].
BANC PIC 2006.022--fALB; BANC PIC 2006.022--fALB
Collection Overview

Title:

Ubero Plantation, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico

Creator/Contributor:

Luce, Henry A., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Waite, C. B. (Charles B.)

Creator/Contributor:

Walz, W. G.

Abstract:

Album contains views of Ubero Plantation Co. grounds and vicinity in Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Views show indigenous persons who worked on plantation, their villages, and the surrounding towns and landscapes of the Coatzacoalcos River region. Photos also depict rubber and coffee plants, pineapple fields and plantation buildings. An emphasis seems to be placed on the dress and customs of the local indigenous population.

Date:

ca. 1900 (issued)

Subject:

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Ubero Plantation Co. -- Pictorial works
Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Tehuantepec, Isthmus of -- Photographs
Rubber industry and trade -- Mexico -- Photographs
Rubber plantation workers -- Mexico -- Photographs
Rubber plantations -- Mexico -- Photographs
Coffee industry -- Mexico -- Photographs
Tehuantepec, Isthmus of (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Coatzacoalcos River Region (Mexico) -- Pictorial works

Note:

Includes 17 views by C.B. Waite. Other photographer(s) unknown.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Tooled leather binding by W. G. Walz (cf. dealer's description).
Name of Henry A. Luce, an investor in the Ubero Plantation Co., tooled on front cover. Photographs presumably compiled by or for Luce.

Type:

graphic

Physical Description:

graphic
photoprint
1 album (45 photographic prints) : b&w ; 30 x 19 cm.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 2006.022--fALB
BANC PIC 2006.022--fALB

Origin:

Mexico