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An aguador [water carrier], Guanajuato – Antique Print

An aguador [water carrier], Guanajuato, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
An aguador [water carrier], Guanajuato, [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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An aguador [water carrier], Guanajuato

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A water seller, or *aguador*, in Guanajuato, the silver-mining city in central Mexico, is the subject of this view. Such vendors carried water to households and businesses that lacked a direct supply, drawing it from fountains and wells and hauling it through the town's streets. The negative is attributed to the American photographer William Henry Jackson, whose Mexican views were listed in a catalog published in 1898, and it later became part of the Detroit Publishing Company's collection of travel scenes.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5.5 x 5 in.
GenrePortrait photographs.Dry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8487. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsPeddlers. Water supply.Mexico--Guanajuato.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan644 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76500

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