Title:
Photographs relating to Manuel Gamio's research on Mexican immigration to the United States
Creator/Contributor:
Gamio, Manuel, 1883-1960, creator
Abstract:
Photographs show Mexicans, both in Mexico and in the United States; everyday life in the states of Jalisco and Michoacan (including
streets, homes, churches, peddlers, fishermen, etc.); views of Tucson, Arizona including many homes, and children and adults
at the "centro cristiano bautista mexicano"; Mexican gravestones; arts and crafts; performers in costume; and many mugshot
portraits with descriptions of those pictured (mostly day workers) apparently copied from the archives of the Mexican Consulate
in San Antonio, Texas.
Date:
approximately 1910-ca. 1930 (issued)
Subject:
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Mexicans -- Pictorial works
Mexicains -- Ouvrages illustrés
Manners and customs
Mexicans
Jalisco (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Mexico -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
Tucson (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
Jalisco (Mexique : État) -- Ouvrages illustrés
Michoacán (Mexique : État) -- Ouvrages illustrés
Arizona -- Tucson
Mexico
Mexico -- Jalisco
Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo
Note:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer or complied by Manuel Gabio.
Photographs are in albums with the following titles: Fotografias diversas correspondientes a la colonia Acambaro -- Fotographias
diversas correspondientes a Mexico. Estados de Jalisco y Mich[oacan] -- Fotografias diversas correspondientes a los Estados
Unidos y Mexico.
Transferred from Manuel Gamio's papers: Notes gathered for his book, Mexican Immigration to the United States (BANC MSS Z-R
5).
Type:
graphic
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 230 photographic prints (some in albums) : black and white ; various sizes
Language:
Spanish
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1937.003-.005--PICLOCAL
Origin:
Various places