Introduction
The Latin American Library Image Archive is one of only a handful of such collections in the United States. It holds some 35,000 individual images from virtually every country in the region, dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, in a variety of formats including print photographs and negatives, stereographic images, slides, glass slides and historic postcards. The images cover a wide range of topics: pre-contact art, artifacts and structures; colonial, modern and contemporary urban architecture and scenes from many cities in the region; pictorial documentation on travel through the region; landscapes; ethnological material on Amerindian villages, dress, customs and rituals; archaeological sites; haciendas in the Central Valley of Mexico; the construction of the Panama Canal; mid-19th century Mexican cartes-des-visites depicting occupationals; early 20th century Central American fruit ports; the Sandinista-Contra conflict in the 1980s; studio photos and portraits, and much more.
The collection includes original photographs and/or reproductions from such notable photographers as Martín Chambi , Courret Hermanos , Antíoco Cruces and Luis Campa, Marc Ferrez, Abraham Guillén, Emilio Harth-Terré, Faustino and Julio Mayo (Hermanos Mayo), Eadweard Muybridge, José D. Noriega, Lorry Salcedo-Mitrani, and Juan Yas.
