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Cactus fence in Salamanca, Mexico – Vintage Print

Cactus fence in Salamanca, Mexico, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
Cactus fence in Salamanca, Mexico, [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 pair of children stands beside a fence made of cactus in Salamanca, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. Living fences like this were a common way to mark property and keep out livestock across the dry Bajío region, where cactus grew more readily than timber. The picture is a large glass dry plate negative, which the Detroit Publishing Company later reproduced in its catalog. The photographer is generally credited to William Henry Jackson, who traveled through Mexico in the 1880s and recorded its towns, rail lines, and everyday scenes.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 14 x 11 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 0225. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsChildren. Cactus.Mexico--Guanajuato--Salamanca.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan787 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77491

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