Latin American and Iberian Studies  Tags: latin_american_iberian_collections  

The Library has significant holdings of Latin American photography (c. 1860 to c. 1970) of interest to researchers in many disciplines. Locales include Mexico, Central, and South America. Subjects include archaeology, ethnology, architecture, art, politics, popular culture, landscapes, economic activities, and scenes of everyday life. A variety of photographic formats are represented: cartes-de-visite, albumen prints, postcards, slides, glass negatives, and modern prints -- some of exhibition quality. Of special interest are cartes-de-visite portraits of Maximilian and his circle and tipos populares (street vendors) by the Cruces y Campa Studio, Mayan monuments taken by Alfred P. Maudslay and Teobert Maler, railroad photographs by William Henry Jackson, Vistas mexicanas series by E. Briquet, political and military leaders of the Revolution of 1910 and scenes of the Revolutionary scenes taken by L.R. Pimentel, Hugo Brehme landscapes of Popocatepetl in eruption, C.B. Waite's tropical plantation views, 19th- and 20th-century mining photographs, Marc Ferrez's Albumen prints of Rio de Janeiro, early (1860s) views of Corrientes (Argentina), and 20th-century study of Andean Indians by George Bunzl. Many new acquisitions have been added to this continually growing collection. (For information concerning the use and copying of photographic materials, contact Mike Kelley, Acting Curator of Pictorial Collections, Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 )