Photographic Album Depicting Brazil and Argentina
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Scope and Contents
This collection contains one photographic album containing fifty black-and-white images depicting Lisbon Harbor, Brazil, and Argentina. The images feature two copper mines in the Catamarca region of Argentina, one owned by Samuel Lafone Quevedo and the other owned by Adolfo Carranza; as well as a sugar plantation owned by Alfredo Guzman. Other images depict various members of the Blamey family and the natural landscape of Argentina. The album appears to have been a gift from Henry (potentially Henry Davis Hoskold, author of Official report upon the mines, mining, metallurgy and mining laws, etc. etc. of the Argentine republic) to Jessie M. Dalton in September of 1893.
Dates
- Creation: 1893
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
One photographic album containing fifty black-and-white images depicting Lisbon Harbor, Brazil, and Argentina. The images feature two copper mines in the Catamarca region of Argentina, one owned by Samuel Lafone Quevedo and the other owned by Adolfo Carranza; as well as a sugar plantation owned by Alfredo Guzman. Other images depict various members of the Blamey family and the natural landscape of Argentina. The album appears to have been a gift from Henry (potentially Henry Davis Hoskold) to Jessie M. Dalton in September of 1893.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The University of Alabama Libraries acquired the Photographic Album Depicting Brazil and Argentina in 2021.
Physical Description
The album is loose as the binding is detriorated. Both the front and back covers are not attached to the pages inside, nor are the pages inside attached to each other.
Processing Information
Processed by Jessica Rayman, September 2021.
- Title
- Guide to the Photographic Album Depicting Brazil and Argentina
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jessica Rayman
- Date
- October 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