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Church of San Diego, Aguas Calientes, Mexico – Historic Reproduction

Church of San Diego, Aguas Calientes, Mexico, [between 1880 and 1900] — historic photograph
Church of San Diego, Aguas Calientes, Mexico, [between 1880 and 1900]. Historic photograph from the San Diego 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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Church of San Diego, Aguas Calientes, Mexico comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Church of San Diego, Aguas Calientes, Mexico

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Few Mexican place names are as literal as Aguascalientes, which means "hot waters" and refers to the warm springs in the area. This view centers on the Church of San Diego and the plaza before it, a pairing common in Mexican towns, where the church and open square anchored daily life. The photograph comes from W.H. Jackson & Co., whose studio produced many views of Mexico in the 1880s and 1890s, and whose negatives later passed into the Detroit Publishing Company's holdings. The glass negative records how a provincial town looked near the end of the nineteenth century, before the upheavals of the Mexican Revolution.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1900]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreCol." on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 073209. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
NotesW.H. Jackson & Co.
SubjectsCatholic churches. Plazas.Mexico--Aguascalientes (State)--Aguascalientes.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74102

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