Research Catalog

Title

Views in Gautemala [i.e. Guatemala] [graphic].

Publication

after 1905

Details

Description

Album (36 photoprints) : silver gelatin, b&w; 14 x 19 cm. or smaller in album 18.5 x 27.5 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

• Indians of Central America
• Silver gelatin prints
• Photographic prints
• Albums
• Portraits
• Totonicapán (Guatemala)
• Guatemala
• Chichicastenango (Guatemala)
• Atitlán, Lake (Guatemala)
• Women > Guatemala
• Thatched buildings > Guatemala
• Springs > Guatemala
• Spinning
• Salt industry > Guatemala
• Road construction > Guatemala
• Nets
• Musicians > Guatemala
• Markets > Guatemala
• Lakes > Guatemala
• Indians of Central America > Clothing
• Fountains > Guatemala
• Dwellings > Guatemala
• City & town halls > Guatemala
• Churches > Guatemala
• Children & adults
• Children > Guatemala
• Coffee plantations > Guatemala
• Bridges > Guatemala

Genre/Form

• Portraits.
• Albums.
• Photographic prints.
• Silver gelatin prints.

Note

• Title from typed label on cover of album.
• 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)

• Restricted access;

Provenance (note)

• Rare Book and Manauscript Division transfer, 1986.

Exhibitions (note)

• Exhibited: "New Acquisitions," NYPL, 1992.

Call Number

MFY 93-6318

OCLC

NYPG93-F271

Title

Views in Gautemala [i.e. Guatemala] [graphic].

Imprint

after 1905

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at division indicated.

Provenance

Rare Book and Manauscript Division transfer, 1986.

Exhibitions

"Ralajos Indios" Exhibited: "New Acquisitions," NYPL, 1992.

Research Call Number

MFY 93-6318