Title:
[Guanajuato photograph album]
Titulo de cyudad: concedido por la magestad del Señor Rey Don Phelipe Quinto
Creator/Contributor:
García, Romualdo, creator, photographer.
Abstract:
Professional photographs depicting views and scenes of Guanajuato City, with an emphasis on historical structures and streets.
Also contains photographs of the pages of a 1741 manuscript pertaining to the city's establishment (Titulo de cyudad [sic]
: concedido por la magestad del Señor Rey Don Phelipe Quinto) which include portraits of Felipe V of Spain and Pedro de Castro
Figueroa y Salazar. Also includes 4 real photograph postcards depicting mummies and skulls in the city's Panteón Municipal.
Date:
1900 (issued)
Subject:
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Guanajuato (Mexico) -- Photographs
Guanajuato (Mexico) -- History -- Pictorial works
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Bookseller attributes many photographs to Guanajuato portraiture specialist Romualdo García and/or his family successors,
although most photographs do not bear a photographer's name.
Most views described by hand-written captions on album leaves.
[Guanajuato photograph album], BANC PIC 2018.099, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphic
Photograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
56 photographs in 1 album : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; album 19 x 29 cm
Language:
Spanish
Identifier:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/unprocessed-collections-form
Origin:
California