Waite Album of Recuerdo de Mexico
Collection
Identifier: 2020-004
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one photographic album containing images taken by C. B. (Charles Betts) Waite during his time in Mexico. The images depict street scenes in Guadalupe and Mexico City, bullfights, rural life, and several cultural sites, including the Cathedral of Zocalo, the Sacred Monte (Amecameca), and the Catacombs of Guanajuato.
Dates
- 1900
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Due to the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access to certain materials may require additional advance notice.
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For more information about copyright policy, please visit: https://www.ua.edu/copyright/. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals without the consent of those individuals may have legal implications, for which the University of Alabama assumes no responsibility.
Biographical / Historical
Charles Betts (C. B.) Waite was an American photographer born in Akron, Ohio, on December 19, 1861. Waite was active during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and is best known for his images of the American Southwest and Mexico. Around 1881, when Waite was twenty, he moved to southern California and worked for Henry Ellis Coonley, taking photographs of landscapes around the San Diego area. These images appeared in the magazine Land of Sunshine, which led to commissions with railroad companies to capture similar landscape images of Arizona and New Mexico. In 1897, Waite moved to Mexico City and established his own studio where he continued to take landscape images of the Mexican countryside, as well as Mexican city-life and images of the upper class, including President Porfirio Diaz's inner circle. Waite lived in Mexico, regularly travelling back to the United States, until 1923, when his wife, Alice Cooley Waite, died. He moved to Los Angeles, California, and lived there until his death on March 22, 1927.
Extent
0.2 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Overview
One photographic album of images taken by C. B. (Charles Betts) Waite in Mexico depicting street scenes in Guadalupe and Mexico City, bullfights, and occupational images.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The University of Alabama Libraries acquired the Waite Album of Recuerdo de Mexico in 2020.
Processing Information
Processed by Jessica Rayman, September 2020.
- Title
- Guide to Waite Album of Recuerdo de Mexico
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jessica Rayman
- Date
- March 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository