Victoria and Albert Photography Holdings on Latin America and the Caribbean
Henri G. Peabody, Church Interior, Mexico, ca. 1900, from the album Spanish Colonial Architecture in Mexico by Sylvester Baxter.
Courtesy of V&A Museum 2009, X.323, Vol. X, [Box of] Plates, Gomez de Mora edition.
All photographs are black and white unless otherwise stated.
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X.90
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Views of Mexico and Cuba
A. Briquet (Photographer)
Havana [8 pictures]
Sculpture in Prado
View of cathedral
Plaza de Armas from Palace
Landscapes (sea and boats, palm trees and animals, panorama form across the bay, roofs and churches, buildings)
Mexico [32 pictures]
-‘Tipos mexicanos: Indios’
Vera Cruz. CA. Pellandini, editor.
-‘Vistas mexicanas: pueblo alrededor de Mexico’
CA.Pellandini, editor.
-‘Tipos mexicanos, coal merchants, state of Mexico’
-‘Vistas mexicanas: park’
Mexico City
-Landscapes: Botanic gardens, Plaza de armas
Sea
Viaducto de Wimer
Viaducto en la Barranca de Metlac
Scenery in the State of Vera Cruz
Waterfall Xuchiles
Mexican railroad with bridges and viaductos
Environs of Ameca-Meca (farmers)
Ameca-Meca and Santa Amita
Castles and official buildings in Mexico City and Vera Cruz
Harbour in Vera Cruz
Grove of Chapultepec
Streets
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19th century
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X.100 9B
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Photograph of marriage between Tina Modotti and Edward Weston
Mexico, Anon., 146x102mm
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1924
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X.1009A,B & D |
Edward Weston (photographer)
-‘Church Door, Hormitos’, 1940
-Female nudes: no title, no date [3 pictures]
-‘Nude’, 1936
-‘Excusado’, Mexico, 1926
-‘Manuel Galvan’, Mexico, 1929
-Boy nude: no date, no title
-‘Nahui Olin’, 1929
-‘Tina’, 1924
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1922-1940
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X.420
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Julio Michaud (photographer)
-Mexican Ruins [4 pictures]
-Cityscapes: Plaza de Toros Carlos IV, Tacuba Valle de Mexico.
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n. d. (ca. 1860-70)
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MX1 XM6
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‘Argentina-Views’ (XIXth century)
Anon. unless otherwise stated
-São Paulo: ‘Ponte da Gruta Funda’
-Marc Ferrez: ‘Jardin botanique allée des palmiers’
-‘Scène’ (Argentina): long-shot of land with farmer
-‘Buenos Ayres (Argentina) Residence of the honourable Willian Barrington (1883-4)’
-‘Lima: British Embassy’, photographer: Fresco Pontigoso, 1937 (interior view)
-Picture of the building ‘Departamento de ingenieros’ in La Plata, Argentina, photographer: Samuel Boote
-‘Estacion central y puerto’, photographer: Samuel Boote
-‘La Plata’, photographer: Samuel Boote
-Buenos Aires, official building
-‘Hipodromo argentino’, A.W. B&C, Bs As
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n.d. 19th and 20th century
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X.17
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Album
Margrave Bequest (vol IV). Européens-Américains : Foreign Celebrities
-Page ‘Brazile’
Small size studio portrait of ‘Theresa, Empress of Brazil, 1822-1889’, 1860s
-Page ‘Belgium’
Small size studio portrait of ‘Charlotte, Empress of Mexico, 1840-1889’, 1860s, photographer : Disderi
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1860s
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X.189C
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Album
British Museum : Photographs from the Pre-historic and ethnographical collections by Stephen Thompson, London, 1872
Pottery, masks, totems, sculpted stones, vases, statues, music instuments…
From : Ancient Mexico, Central America and New Granada, Nicaragua, West Indies, Brazil and Guiana, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia
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1872
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X.509B
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Damman Album of Racial Types
Anthropologisch-Ethnologisches Album mit Photographien, von CA. Dammann in Hamburg.
Herausgegeben mit Unterstützung der Sammlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, Berlin, Verlag von Wiegandt & Hempel
-Tafel VII : Peru
-Tafel VI : Amazonene strom-Gebiet
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19th century
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X.913D
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo (photographer)
-‘Reyes de la Danza’, ca. 1931
-Still life (Mexico) (n.d.)
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1930s
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X.918N
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (photographer)
Mexico [3 pictures]:
-‘Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Mexico City, 1934’
-Portrait of woman with baby in the street, Mexico, 1934
-‘Spider Love’, Mexico, 1934
-A few undated pictures might be from the 1930s
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1934
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X.323
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Spanish Colonial Architecture in Mexico, by Sylvester Baxter, Vol. X, [Box of] Plates, Gómez de Mora edition.
Photographic plates by Henry G. Peabody Churches (entrance doors, facades, interiors with painting and scultpures, most images without people) in:
-Morelia [2 pictures]
-Tzintzuntzan [1 picture]
-Oaxaca [3 pictures]
-Guadalajara [4 pictures]
-Zacatecas [5 pictures]
-San Luis de Potosí [1 picture]
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1901
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X.921
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Martin Chambi (photographer)
‘Hacienda Owner and Workers, Chumbivilcas region’, Peru, ca. 1945
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ca. 1945
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LCL C 4A
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Curtis Moffat (photographer)
File of contact prints (6x7 for Mexican pictures)
-Mountains in Mexico, 2 with caption :
‘Pyramid in Mexico’
‘Mountains on the way to Mexico City’
-portraits in Cuernavacca and Tasco [3 pictures]
‘F.Ledebur ( ?) in Cuernavacca’, ‘F. Ledebur in Tasco’, ‘F. Ledebur + Plumed Serpents’
-‘Poor Picture of the Hacienda with the Purple Tower’
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early 20th century
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X.725
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Family Album
Photograph of Bishop of Jamaica in Melville Family Album from ca. 1860
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ca. 1860
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X.546
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Box of ‘Stereoscopic’
41.224 to 41.250
Ruins in Copan (Honduras), all captioned very precisely, like for example :
-‘Fallen Monolith—Ruins of Copan, Central America. Standing Portion and Side that faced the East’ (41.235)
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n.d.
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