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The penitentiary, Guadalajara – Antique Wall Art

The penitentiary, Guadalajara, [between 1890 and 1897] — historic photograph
The penitentiary, Guadalajara, [between 1890 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 The penitentiary, Guadalajara, 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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Guadalajara, the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, is the setting here, and the picture shows its penitentiary, a subject that the Detroit Publishing Company photographers and their contemporaries rarely turned to. The date is an estimate, placed sometime between 1890 and 1897, when the company was selling views of Mexico and other places to American travelers. The print is credited to the photographer William Henry Jackson only by inference, because its title matches a numbered view in his 1898 catalog. Its glass negative is an 8 by 5 inch plate, which gives the image more detail than a small print would show.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 5 in.
NotesAttribution to Jackson based on similarity of title to photo no. 8498 in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). 8 x 10 = 3945
SubjectsPrisons.Mexico--Guadalajara.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 636 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76596

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