Albums
The following is a partial, but representative, list of photographic albums in the Latin American Library's collections. Additional and more recent albums may be found by searching the Library Catalog.
Album de Rio de Janeiro
c. 1930. Photographs of Rio de Janeiro by Botafogo in two separate albums, n.1 and n. 3; all photos are identified. 22 pieces. Album 18.
Album de 250 vistas salvadoreñas
1927-1928. Miniature photographs of El Salvador, numbered and identified, with views of San Salvador, Santa Ana, and Santa Tecla and scenes of coffee workers. Some duplications and omissions. 208 pieces. Album 19.
Canal Interocéanique de Panama--Etats-Unis de Colombie, Album
1885. 60 original albumen photographs of Panama that document work on the canal by the French company under Ferdinand de Lesseps; and show architecture and life in Panama. Dedication by P.M. del Valle to Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada of Mexico. 30 pages/oversized. Album 10.
Charnay, Désiré, photographer, [ Ancient cities of the New World ]
A collection of enlarged black and white photographs of Mitla, Chichén Itzá, Palenque, and Uxmal, from which were selected some of the illustrations in Charnay's Les anciennes villes du Nouveau Monde, Paris, 1884, and Le Mexique et ses monuments anciens, Paris, 1864. Eight photographs are loose and four in an album, but each is identified. (RARE F1219.C47)
Costa Rica Album
c. 1900. Photographs of Costa Rica by Rudd Fotógrafo and Paynter Bros. Views of San José including the National Theater, other towns, United Fruit Co. building, banana, and coffee production; all photos are identified. 24 leaves. Album 12.
Cuba, Territorio Libre de América, Album-Portfolio
c. 1961. Prints distributed by the Ministerio de Industrias extolling the accomplishments of the Cuban revolution with views of Havana and other cities, schools, industrialization, agricultural production and armed forces. 32 pieces. Album 14.
Ferrez, Marc, photographer (1843-1923) Album
1896. Original photographs by this pioneer Brazilian photographer, of Rio de Janeiro, the surrounding countryside and botanical garden, Petrópolis, Negro and Indian types, and coffee plantation workers. All photos are identified, except for 5 small photos of buildings. 26 leaves and 6 pieces. Album 16.
Jackson, Stonewall, Album of Mexican Photographs
Early 20th century. Black and white photographs taken or collected by Jackson, a coffee buyer in Orizaba, Mexico. Depicted are urban and rural views of that area, also Veracruz, Amecameca, and San Lázaro, with scenes of daily life and work, also railroads. Not all photographs are identified. In album box 16. See accession file for information on Stonewall Jackson and the donation. 14 leaves; 92 photographs. Album 31.
Jamaica Album
19th century. Original photographs of cities, villages and country scenes in Jamaica, showing architecture and people; some photos are identified. 28 pages. Album 9.
Lambert, C., Album of Mexico
c.1908. Views of Pachuca, Puebla, Jalapa, Veracruz, Toluca, Morelia, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, and Aguas Calientes, with street scenes, churches, mining, markets, bullfights in Guadalajara, roads, trains, housing, Indians, and rural scenery. 211 photos. Album 33.
Latin America Fotofolio Album
1933. 100 personal snapshots by an unknown traveler in Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala and Mexico; all photos are identified. Album 4.
Marines in Nicaragua, Album
1930. Snapshots taken by a U.S. Marine on duty in Ocotal, Nicaragua, with views of marines patroling, tropical scenes of flora and fauna, various people and places, and the Panama Canal Railway; some photos are identified. 129 pieces. Album 21.
Mexican Views, Album of Postcards
c. 1900. Postcards from throughout Mexico showing colonial architecture, archaeological sites and types of people at work. Several have notes inscribed by Zelia Nuttall, who may have collected the cards. Album 6.
Le Mexique et ces monuments anciens 1864
Photographic album by Désiré Charnay contains 20 mounted photographs of Mitla, Chichén Itza, and Uxmal and five pages of descriptive text in French. (RARE 972.015 (571) C483m)
Panama Album
1904-1907. Photoprints of views of Panama showing the Panama Canal and its construction, Panama City and other towns, government officials, social settings, colonial architecture and the San Blas Indians. Most were taken by C.L. Chester. 81 leaves/oversize. Album 15.
Picturesque Jamaica in Post Cards, Album
c. 1927. Color postcards of Jamaica country scenes and the city of Kingston. 12 cards. Album 3.
Recuerdo de Montevideo, Album
c 1890. Photographs of the city of Montevideo, Uruguay, by Bate y Ca.; all photos are identified. Album 2.
Report on Public Works in the Dominican Republic, November 30, 1921, Album
Prepared by U.S. military government, on public works in the Dominican Republic from 1908-1921 consisting of 3 maps and 74 photographs of the works accomplished, with descriptions on facing pages, and reports on the roads in 1921 and public works expenditures by year. 165 pages. Album 30.
República El Salvador, América Central 1924
200 photographic plates of the Republic of El Salvador, with text in English and Spanish. (RARE F1484.S1)
Reynolds, Joshua W., photographer, Album
1877-1898. Albumen and silver prints taken by Captain Reynolds on different voyages in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Emphasis on Veracruz, Tampico, Havana, and Mexico City. Includes an excellent 1877 photo of the cathedral of Mexico. Most of the photographs are identified in Reynolds' hand. 32 leaves; 116 photos. Album 17.
Rio Janeiro, Album
19th century. Original photographs in snakeskin binding of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and surrounding countryside including botanical gardens, taken by Marc Ferrez; all photos are identified. 16 leaves. Album 7.
Rio Janeiro, Album
c. 1930-1940. Mounted photographs, prepared for tourists, of views of Rio de Janeiro, including the theater. All photos are identified. See contents record. Album 24.
Robinson, Marian H., collector, Album
1882-1888. Original photographs of Indians, architecture, villages, port and coffee plantations of Guatemala, taken by Sanfred Robinson; all photos are identified. 65 leaves. Album 8.
Ross, Luis A., photographer (1880-1943). Chile al 1900, Album
1899-1919. Photomechanical reproductions of photographs of the urban upper class of Chile by this Chilean photographer. Published in 1990 in celebration of 150 years of photography, in the format of a weekly calendar; includes a biography of Luis Ross. 61 photos. Album 29.
Santo Domingo Album
1930, February 25-October 3. The collection consists of 110 photos taken in Santo Domingo. It shows many aspects of urban life: street scenes, transportation, public buildings and monuments, mass public occasions, troop formations, bridges, docks, "revolucionarios," Presidents Vazquez and Trujillo, and numerous photos of the physical damage and casualties of the hurricane which struck the city on September 3, 1930. Each photo is dated and described in detail on the reverse. See Accession File. Album 36.
Santo Tomás Chichicastenango, Guatemala, Album
c. 1935. Commercial photographs of the town and Indians of Chichicastenango, Guatemala; all photos are identified. 24 pages, miniature. Album 1.
South America Album
1932-1933. Private photographic record of a 1932-1933 trip to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Panama, and Cuba consisting of amateur and commercial photographs with scens of laboring classes and pre-Columbian ruins. Views are identified with typed captions. 304 pieces. Album 20.
Souvenir of Havana, Album
c. 1900 Commercially printed album of views of Havana showing architecture, fortification, people, and wreckage of the Maine. 24 leaves. Album 13.
Spanish American War Album
c.1898-1900. These photographs were probably taken by a U.S. military officer who served during or shortly after the Spanish-American War. Depicted are views in and around San Juan and Ponce, Puerto Rico, Santiago de Cuba, the Philippines, rural life from Puerto Rico and the Philippines, Spanish fortifications in Puerto Rico. Some photos show battlefields and various military facilities. Most photos are identified. 25 leaves; 62 photographs. Album 34.
Stoffle, Wayne. Albums
c. 1946. Seven albums of photographs taken in Panama and Guatemala, with a few views of Haiti and Cuba, showing scenes or urban and rural life, U.S. naval officers' life in the Panama Canal Zone and also Indians of Guatemala. 7 pieces. Album 32.
Through Mexico with a Busted Camera, Album
c. 1903, 1906. Unidentified snapshots of people and city and country scenes in Mexico. 64 pages. Album 5.
Trip to Mexico, Album
September 1934. Personal snapshots of unidentified travelers who went from Veracruz to Mexico City by train, and on to Toluca, Cuernavaca, Taxco, and Oaxaca. So postcards including color reproductins of Diego Rivera murals. 214 pieces. Album 22.
Universidad de Concepción Chile, Album
c. 1950. 24 leaves/oversize. Original photographs of the campus and buildings of the Universidad de Concepción, with views showing earthquake damage. Album 11.
Vidart, Jorge, photographer, Nicaragua Nicaraguita
1981. A portfolio of 26 loose printed photos of people and social conditions in Nicaragua at the beginning of the Sandinista Revolution. (RARE F1528.V53)
"Visit to South America" Album
1909. 26 leaves. Leather album of a Briton, (initials C.H.M), of photographs taken on an ocean voyage to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, including Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro with views of harbors, railroads, dams, power plants, water works, and shipboard activities. All photos are identified. See contents record.
Zacualpa [Chiapas, Mexico] Rubber Plantation Album
1907. The album was assembled by members of an inspection party of Americans who appear in several photos. Pictures of the manager's residence and store, laborers' quarters, storehouse under construction, 5-month-old, 17-month-old, 2 1/2-year old trees and older trees, plantation town square with bandstand, rubber laboratory and vats and a new church in town are included. 32 photographs. Album 35.
