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Chihuahua, Mexico – Historic Print

Chihuahua, Mexico, [1891] — historic photograph
Chihuahua, Mexico, [1891]. 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: Chihuahua, Mexico, 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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From an eastern vantage point, this view records the city of Chihuahua in northern Mexico, the capital of the state of the same name. The two glass negatives are close variants, and one appears to be a cropped and enlarged version of the other, which suggests the photographer worked to refine the composition. W.H. Jackson & Co., the studio credited on the prints, made a large body of views in Mexico during the 1880s and 1890s, when railroad expansion was drawing attention to towns like Chihuahua. The Detroit Publishing Company later issued the image, which helps explain its place in the collection.

Created / published[1891]
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 18 x 22 in.
Genre1891. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 01071. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
NotesNegatives are close variants. View from the east. W.H. Jackson & Co. Phot.
SubjectsMexico--Chihuahua.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-79691

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