Research Catalog

Title

Cabinet card views of Mexico [graphic] / W. H. Jackson.

Author

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942

Publication

Denver, Col. : W. H. Jackson & Co., 1883?-1891?

Details

Description

33 photographic prints : albumen, b&w; 11 x 18 cm. or smaller on mounts 12.5 x 20.3 cm or smaller.

Summary

Views of rural, village and town life in Mexico, including woman making tortillas; men and women with goods for sale, including pottery; a sugar mill; man and woman on porch of thatched house, woman with jug on head; children in market, San Luis Potosí; street scene, Cuautle; men and women at tables of veranda of a hotel in Puebla; ground around fountain of San Domingo; Guadalajara street and the penitentiary there; palace at Aguascaliente; men and women by railroad near Rascan; groups in the village of Abra; Mt. Popocatapetl; soldiers and others at Hacienda Peoticlos; group of women doing laundry, other hanging out wash; hats and other goods in portals of a market; flat boat in Canal de la Vica; old bridge at Hercules; soldiers in front of Cortés Palace, Coyoacán; bales of [cotton], Teoloyucan; views in Mexico City: grove of Chapultepec; Cinco de Mayo celebration; man with jugs in Alameda.

Subject

• Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547 > Homes and haunts
• Canals > Mexico
• Children > Mexico
• Cinco de Mayo (Mexican holiday)
• Dwellings > Mexico
• Fountains > Mexico
• Government buildings > Mexico
• Hotels > Mexico > Puebla
• Laborers > Mexico
• Laundry > Mexico
• Markets > Mexico
• Mountains > Mexico
• Parks > Mexico > Mexico City
• Plazas > Mexico
• Porches > Mexico
• Prison facilities > Mexico > Guadalajara
• Railroads > Mexico
• Streets > Mexico
• Sugar industry > Mexico
• Thatched buildings > Mexico
• Chapultepec (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Coyoacán (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Cuautla Morelos (Mexico)
• Mexico City (Mexico)
• San Luis Potosí (Mexico)
• Teoloyucan (Mexico)

Genre/Form

• Albumen prints.
• Cabinet card photographs.
• Photographic prints.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Albumen photographic prints mounted on cabinet cards. Negative numbers and titles in negatives. Photographer's name printed on mounts, variously: "W. H. Jackson & Co.," and "W. H. Jacskon Photograph & Publishing Co., Denver Col."
• Some views with manuscript inscriptions on verso.
• Collection stamps on verso.
• Views are numbered: 5231, 5238(?), 5267, 5275, 5276, 5617, 5622, 5628, 6201, 6203, 6215, 6226, 6227, 6229, 6238, 6239, 6243, 6244, 6250, 6278, 6282, 6283, 6405, 6421, 6432, 6445, 645(?), 6461, 6474.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Provenance (note)

• Picture Collection transfer, Picture Collection #10690.

Call Number

MFZ (Jackson) 93-6256

OCLC

NYPG93-F180

Author

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer.

Title

Cabinet card views of Mexico [graphic] / W. H. Jackson.

Imprint

Denver, Col. : W. H. Jackson & Co., 1883?-1891?

Restricted Access

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

Provenance

Picture Collection transfer, Picture Collection #10690.

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Research Call Number

MFZ (Jackson) 93-6256