Views in Gautemala [i.e. Guatemala]

Title
  1. Views in Gautemala [i.e. Guatemala] [graphic].
Published by
  1. after 1905

Details

Description
  1. Album (36 photoprints) : silver gelatin, b&w; 14 x 19 cm. or smaller in album 18.5 x 27.5 cm
Summary
  1. Views of village and hacienda life in Guatemala, including an unidentified town hall; town hall in St. Tomas; a municipal market with date of 1905 over door; a ruined building; a procession with figure of saint coming down steps of church; general and street views Totonicapán; people at markets, including people at close of market, man with a burro, Indian men selling salt, group of men and women in market; child with sugar cane; men gathering corn, one view showing thatched building; Indian women on bench by house; man making a hammock or net; man and child having a meal among baskets and pottery; woman with water jug at town fountain; women and children seated, men standing near buildings on coffee plantation; child and dog; man spinning; man resting near pack he was carrying; men and cattle; Lake Atitlán and mountains beyond; a bridge at Selegua; road building crew, including a group of musicians; views of Indians of Guatemala: men of Chichicastenango; women and children at spring; studio portrait of women of Totonicapan in traditional dress; man and two women, Indians of Sebastian (Hueuchuetanango); group of boys, Ralajo Indios; woman nursing child; man with drum; men and a woman making salt.
Subject
  1. Bridges > Guatemala
  2. Coffee plantations > Guatemala
  3. Children > Guatemala
  4. Children & adults
  5. Churches > Guatemala
  6. City & town halls > Guatemala
  7. Dwellings > Guatemala
  8. Fountains > Guatemala
  9. Indians of Central America
  10. Indians of Central America > Clothing
  11. Lakes > Guatemala
  12. Markets > Guatemala
  13. Musicians > Guatemala
  14. Nets
  15. Road construction > Guatemala
  16. Salt industry > Guatemala
  17. Spinning
  18. Springs > Guatemala
  19. Thatched buildings > Guatemala
  20. Women > Guatemala
  21. Atitlán, Lake (Guatemala)
  22. Chichicastenango (Guatemala)
  23. Guatemala
  24. Totonicapán (Guatemala)
Genre/Form
  1. Portraits.
  2. Albums.
  3. Photographic prints.
  4. Silver gelatin prints.
Call number
  1. MFY 93-6318
Note
  1. Title from typed label on cover of album.
  2. Some photographs are captioned in English on photograph. Most photographs are captioned in Spanish in white ink on the page below the photograph. Includes 3 photographs not mounted in album, each captioned in English on verso.
Access (note)
  1. Restricted access;
Provenance (note)
  1. Rare Book and Manauscript Division transfer, 1986.
Exhibitions (note)
  1. Exhibited: "New Acquisitions," NYPL, 1992.
Title
  1. Views in Gautemala [i.e. Guatemala] [graphic].
Imprint
  1. after 1905
Restricted access
  1. Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at division indicated.
Provenance
  1. Rare Book and Manauscript Division transfer, 1986.
Exhibitions
  1. "Ralajos Indios" Exhibited: "New Acquisitions," NYPL, 1992.
Research call number
  1. MFY 93-6318
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