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[The Hercules cotton mills, Queretaro] – Vintage Print

[The Hercules cotton mills, Queretaro], [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
[The Hercules cotton mills, Queretaro], [between 1880 and 1897]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [The Hercules cotton mills, Queretaro] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[The Hercules cotton mills, Queretaro]

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The Hercules cotton mill in Querétaro, Mexico, is the subject here, and the record links the works to Cayetano Rubio. The negative is a large glass plate, 5 by 8 inches, made between about 1880 and 1897 and attributed to photographer William Henry Jackson on the basis of the 1898 *catalog of the W.H. Jackson Views*. In these decades, Mexico's textile industry expanded rapidly under the Porfiriato, and Querétaro was one of its growing centers for spinning and weaving. Photographs like this one document the scale of mill buildings and the industrial infrastructure that supported them, which makes them useful to historians of Mexican manufacturing.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 8 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle and date from Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. nos. 5261, 08522. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCotton industry. Industrial facilities.Mexico--Cayetano Rubio.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 619 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76517

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