RGS Photography Holdings on Latin America and the Caribbean
Group of Yaghan Indians, Tierra del Fuego
Photograhpy W.S. Barclay, c. 1880
Courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society.
The Royal Geographical Society has a particularly rich collection of photographs concerning Latin America and the Caribbean. Librarians estimate that there are between 500 and 1000 pictures of the Caribbean and thousands of Latin America. All Latin American countries are represented. Most Photographs are listed individually on the online catalogue, except for a few exceptions such as Harry Johnston's Caribbean pictures, for which the online catalogue only refers to the album as a whole. The collection comprises both albums and boxes of loose photographs. They concern numerous aspects of Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. Many images are about expeditions conducted in Latin America at the beginning of the Twentieth century. These include numerous landscapes and photographs of indigenous populations.
A large number of images is available for preview on the online RGS picture library.
Please note that the following list is not exhaustive, it only represents some of the highlights of the RGS large collection on Latin America an the Caribbean.
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G58 (album)
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Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston [1858-1927, Knight Explorer and Colonial Administrator who travelled a lot and had a passion for photography]
Caribbean 8 albums of large-format black and white photographs. 5 albums contain Caribbean images alongside others of the USA and Africa. (No detailed entry in the RGS catalogue) The Black and White prints are made from a collection of glass-plate negatives taken between 1899 and 1910. See also The Negro and the New World, London: 1910. Haiti
‘A Haitian Country Home’
‘A Homestead in Haiti’
‘Washing Clothes’
Soldiers
Market
Cemeteries and tombs
‘Haitian Women’
Local population
Animals
Portraits: Dominican guards, mason, farmer etc
Landscapes
Photographs of gravures of different presidents of Haiti in the Nineteenth century
Cuba
Vegetation
Sugar cane
Fruit trees
‘Cuban Pigs’
Landscapes
‘Cuban Negroes at Play’
Sugar plantation workers
Portraits: child, ‘A Cuban Negro’, ‘Maroon Negroes’
Dominican Republic
Trees
Jamaica
Landscapes, cityscapes
Banana Grove
Schools
‘A Jamaican Farmer or Beekeeper’
‘Maroon Negroes’
Peasants (men and women)
Barbados
City views and scenes
Port
Churches
Pottery
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
‘A Negro Hut’, Trinidad
Vegetation
Landscape
Market
Jackfruit
Republic of Panama
‘Panama Harbour’
‘Suburb of Panama City’
Cathedral
‘Steam Shovel, Culebra Cut, Panama Canal’
‘Rio Grande Nero Quarters, Panama Canal’
‘Culebra, Married Quarters, Panama Canal’
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1908-1909
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A112
001766-001834 |
Photographer: Mrs P. Ness Album Brazil Rio de Janeiro, day and night
São Paulo
Santos
Uruguay Montevideo
‘Estancia los Ceibos, Uruguay’: landscapes, cattle, horses
‘Rounding up Cattle’
‘Classifying Cattle’
Argentina
Buenos Aires ‘Estancia la California, Argentina’
Pampa
Cordoba
‘Puente del Inca’, Argentina
‘Trans-Andine Railway’
Aconcagua
‘El Christo Redentor’ Chile-Argentina
Andes
Landscapes
Chile Punta Arenas
Tierra del Fuego
Magellan Straits
Boats
Araucanian Indians
Valparaiso
Viña del Mar
Santiago
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1920s
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Album A111
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Photographer: Mrs P. Ness Peru
Views of Arequipa
Churches in Arequipa
‘Pampaland’
‘Degenerate Merinos’
Indians
Llamas
Alpaca
Vicuna
Views of Lima
Ticlio (railway)
Andes
Chulic
Cerro de Pasco with copper mines
Huancayo
Panama
Views of Panama Canal
Coaling station, Colón
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1920s
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S100 PR/058102-058161
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Photographer: M.F. Ryan
Argentina: mountain landscapes
'Almacenes from the West’
‘Mountain East of Almacenes’
‘Aconcagua and Almacenes’
‘Aconcagua’(many different views)
Trans-Andine Railway
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1924
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PR/59149-59151
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Photographer: H. Sottler
Argentina
Glaciers and lakes |
1934
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PR/58152-58161 |
Photographer: Dr. H. Steffen
Argentina Landscapes, mountains, lakes
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1891-1899 |
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S101 PR/058162-058210
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Argentina
Photographer: Mrs A. T. Walters, 1914 (058164-5) Iguazu Falls
Photographer: C. Wellington Furlong, 1926 (058166-83) ‘Looking NW across Beagle Channel towards Ushuaia’
Glaciers and landscapes around Beagle channel
‘Presidente Sarmiento at Anchor on Arrival in Ushuaia Bay’
Forrest and vegetation in Tierra del Fuego
‘Rio Douglas Yaghans Lauching Dug-out Canie’
‘Yaghan Throwing Spears’
‘Ana Hunters’
Yaghan and Ana tribes
Photographer: N. de K. Weymouth, 1935 (058184-058204)
Landscapes
‘Canyon Amarillo’
Mountains
‘Paramillo de las Vacas’
Railway
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1914, 1926 & 1935
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S102 PR/058212-253 and other locations
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Bolivia-Peru
Peru-Bolivia Boundary Commission Hundreds of pictures. Landscapes
Photos relating to the trip: ‘Arrival at Huajra in a Snowstorm’, ‘Camp on the Pelechuco – Mojos Track’
‘Line of Rapids across Rio Colorado, Proposed Boundary Line’
Lake Suches
Sea Lions in Lake Suches
‘Crossing the river Suches near Lake Titicaca’
‘Monitor Working Gold at Suches’
‘Rubber Ready for Sending to Europe’
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1911-1913 |
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S102 PR/058254-259 and various other locations (see online catalogue)
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Photographer: William Singer Barclay (1871-1947)
Over 300 photographs
Views of different parts and aspects of Brazil, including: -landscapes of Rio de Janeiro, day and night
-São Paolo and Santos
-Minas Gerais
-Paranagua
-Railways: São Paulo and Santos, Curitiba Railway, Maria Cristina Railway
-Landscapes with trains
-Abandoned coal mines.
Uruguay
-‘Colonia de Sacramento’
Bolivia
-Tihuanaco
-Copacabana, Lake Titicaca
-‘Gold washing. La Paz’
-‘Ruins of Tiahuanaco’
Argentina
-Extensive collection of images from the 1940s of Mar de Plata, Buenos Aires, the Pampa, Patagonia etc.
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mostly 1908, up to 1940s |
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Album E104- 38
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Photographer: Thorlichen
Bolivia Large black and white photographs [photos influenced by constructivism and Soviet photography] La Paz-Buenos Aires (original captions in German at back of pictures)
Landscapes with Indians (Yungas, Provincia Camacho etc.)
Palca: carnival?
‘Girls from Luribay’
‘Peasant from la Paz’
People and llamas on Altiplano
‘Devil’s Dance, Oruro’
Churches
‘Dancer from Achocalla’ and dancers from other regions
‘Harvest’
‘'Misa Negra’’ on the Altiplano’
‘Ancient Plow’
Potosi miners
‘In the Bolsa-Negra Mine’ [women sorting out pieces of rock for tin]
Miners in Catavi Mines
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1950s
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Various locations, including 058470-059075 and PR/052600-602
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Alexander Hamilton Rice expeditions [1875-1956]
Over 700 black and white pictures, medium and large-format, well catalogued Brazil
-Landscapes, rivers, rocks, cascades
-Settlers’ houses and camps
-Bridge built by Indians
-Rubber gatherers, El Mango
-Rubber at Buena Vista
-Palms at San Felipe
-Flora
-Fish trap
-Indians fishing and hunting
-Monkey
-Turtle’s eggs and digging out turtle’s eggs
-Different animals in the jungle (Tapir, Snakes, etc.)
-Dozens of pictures of the expedition camps.
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July 1907-
April 1908 1916-17, 1919-20, Aug. 1924- June 1925 |
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PR 041774-PR 041768
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Photographer: Sir B. Stowe
Brazil
-On the Amazon
-Settlers’ houses
-Street scenes Maranhas -India Rubber, River Amazon
-Forest and Indians
-São Paulo Railway
-'Getting India Rubber Ready for Market. River Amazon' |
1893
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X0654
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Unknown photographer
Album with various views of Brazil and Argentina, in particular the Iguazu falls
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n.d.
pre-1914
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G128/01-G128/18
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Photographer: T. Preising
Brazil Rio de Janeiro, mostly panoramas (might have been for postcards)
-Leblon
-Canal do Margue
-Jardim botanico
-Rua Paysandu
-Praia Copacabana Palace hotel
-Pão de Azucar
-Techo da Avenida Rio Branco
-Avenida Niemeyer
-Praia Copacabana
-Praia de Botafogo
-Gloria
-Therezopolis
-Dedo de Deus
-Nitheroi
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1920
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058397-058409
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Photographer: H.K. Scott (13 pictures)
Brazil -Bay and arrival in Rio de Janeiro
-Belo Horizonte
-Travelling in Minas Gerais
-Local with mules
-Stone Foutain in Ouro Preto
-Bahia: people
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1900-1910
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060210- 060206
058414- 058410
PR/053887- PR/053878
X0289/022501- 022499
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Photographer: H. Skillington (23 pictures)
Brazil Landscapes and cityscapes in
- Rio de Janeiro
-Santos
Uruguay
-Montevideo
Falkland Islands
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n.d.
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058415-058422,
060824 & 060827
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Photographer: F. Suckett
10 photographs Brazil
-Mt Theresopolis and mounts opposite Rio de Janeiro
-Views of Rio de Janeiro
-Santos
Martinique -'Slopes of Mt. Pelée with smoke cloud' St Lucia -'The beach, Saufrière' |
1900-1912
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058445- 058439
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Luftschiffbau Zeppelin (7 pictures)
Brazil views taken from Zeppelin - Rio
- Fernando de Noronha
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1931
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Various locations between
059988- 058261 & S102 PR/058261-287 |
Major Percy Harrison Fawcett (1867-1925?)
Over 150 pictures Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
-Indians
-Dragging boat across land in Rio Madeira
-Settlers’ camps
-Rubber
- Chamacoco Indians (Brazil)
-Xapury (Brazil)
- Bridge on Lima Oroyo Railway
-Landscapes
-Rio Paraguay, Rio Verde
-La Paz
-Sorata, Beni, Rio Aquery (Bolivia)
1907 (S102 PR/058261-269)
Upper Aquery
Landscapes
Rivers
La Paz 1913-14 (S102 PR/058271-287)
Landscapes near Mapiri, Rio Verde
Camp
‘On the Way to the Savage Country’
‘Reception of Savages’
several pictures of Indians
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1907-1908,
1913-1914 |
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059834, 058362,058296-058292
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Photographer: Dr J. Bach
7 photographs
Brazil
-‘Indios Mirantras del Rio Garagin. Jefe. (Religious ceremony)’
- ‘Victoria Regia, River Jeffe'
- ‘Santarem’
- ‘Pinto do Tena. Patentino Coca zasari tazenda lecald’
-Grand Canal, Para
- ‘Itacoatyra amazons’
Peru
-‘Native mask for death dance.’
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1897
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058298-058364
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Photographer: Capt. S.C. Bullock
22 photographs
-Rio Araguaya, group of Brazilians & Caraja Indians hunting
-Wildlife and trees near Rio Araguaya -Rio São Luis |
1922
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058384-058395
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Photographer: O. Reitz
Brazil -Coffee plantation Ribeivâs Pieto
-Coffee plantation in Casca Branca, Campinas
-"Cehaceve" Campinas
-'Railway from Santos to S. Pauls'
-Blumenau -Fijuca -San Vicente -View near Santos |
1901
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PR/026551(B), PR/042099- PR/041684
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Photographer: Miss VM L. Moennick [missionary on the Xingu]
Brazil 39 photographs
-Portrait on horse of ‘colonel Fawcett just before he ventured into the Xingu jungles’, 1925
-Portrait of Fawcett’s son Jack
-‘Kurikuro village-Betty Young embracing one of the savage women’
-Betty Young made ‘honorary woman chief by the powerful Kamara tribe’
-‘Anglo-Indian halfcaste son of Jack Fawcett and an Indian mother’
-Bororo Indians (Mato Grosso)
-Kamara Indians (Xingu, 1937)
-‘An Aneti chief: A marvelous marksman’
-Calapalos Indians (Xingu)
-Baicari Indians (Xingu)
-Expedition members
-Several pictures of Miss Moennick with Indians
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1925 and 1937
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X0527/023240-023250
PR/041974-042639 E081/14316-14312 |
Photographer: George Miller Dyott, [sent by the North American Newspaper Alliance in a search expedition to find the missing Percy Fawcett]
About 124 photographs Brazil, Para. (1929-1930)
-Fishermen at work
-Canoes on River Para
-Landscapes
-Fauna and Flaura in Para
-Cattle
-Portraits of expedition members
-Camp
-Indians
-Crossing rivers
-Buriti: landscapes and record of route taken by Fawcett
-Juruna Indians
-Front-on view of a piranha ‘piranha, or man eating fish’
Ecuador and Peru (1940, and a few photographs of Peru from 1918) -Cyclone over Ruminahuc NW of Cotopax -Local poulation |
1918
1928-1929 1940
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PR/041870-PR/041820, PR/041755
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Photographer: Miss E.B. Gibbes
Dozens of photographs
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
-Landscapes, boats, trains, streets
Argentina
-‘La Dorita Estancia’
Chile -'Me in Mining Costume' Mexico (1906) -'Church Yard of a ruined Mexican Village' |
1906 & 1911
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PR/041880 - PR/041884
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Unknown photographer
-São Paulo, 'Sheep Rearing' and 'Vegetable Cultivation'
-Preparing Mate
-Rubber plantation
-Washing coffee
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1917
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PR/041768-041805
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Photographer: Sir B. Stones
-Settlers’ house, River Amazon
-Views of the Amazon River
-Street scenes
-Preparing rubber for the market
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1893
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X654/024102-024108
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Unknown Photographer
Oversize photographs (4 1/2 x 16 in ) of Iguazu falls: 5 photos and 4 enlargements & one reproduction of the Iguazu Falls, South America, presented by Earl Curzon of Kedleston, 1914 |
1914
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