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Gate in plaza, Amecameca – Vintage Print

Gate in plaza, Amecameca, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
Gate in plaza, Amecameca, [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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A window into the past: Gate in plaza, Amecameca, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Gate in plaza, Amecameca

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Amecameca, a town on the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada south of Mexico City, is the subject here, and this view centers on a gate opening onto its plaza. The negative is a 5 by 7 inch glass dry plate, and the attribution to photographer William Henry Jackson rests on a title match with a numbered view in his 1898 catalog, not on a signature. Jackson worked across Mexico in the 1880s and 1890s, photographing towns, churches and street life for American audiences curious about the country, and later copies of his views passed through the Detroit Publishing Company, which sold them as souvenir prints.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Jackson based on similarity of title to photo no. 8625 in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 6466. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsGates. Plazas.Mexico--Amecameca de Juarez.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan726 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76260

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