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Mexico, street scenes, cargadores – Historic Photograph Print

Mexico, street scenes, cargadores, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
Mexico, street scenes, cargadores, [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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Step back in time with Mexico, street scenes, cargadores, a historic photograph rich in period 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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Cargadores, the men who hauled goods on their backs through Mexico City, are the subject of this glass negative, which measures five by eight inches. The record credits William Henry Jackson, based on an 1898 catalog of his views, and dates it to between 1880 and 1897. Porters like these were a common sight in the city's crowded streets and markets, where heavy loads often moved on human shoulders rather than by cart. Notice how much weight the men carried relative to their own frames.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 8 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Jackson and locale based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8561. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsPorters.Mexico--Mexico City.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 619 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76539

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