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Water carriers, Salamanca, Mexico – Antique Print

Water carriers, Salamanca, Mexico, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
Water carriers, 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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Water carriers, Salamanca, Mexico comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Water carriers in Salamanca, in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, make the subject here: a figure leading donkeys loaded with water containers, set against the cactus that marks the dry landscape around the town. Photographs like this one were made during the years Mexico was opening to railroads and foreign travelers, and William Henry Jackson, who worked there in the 1880s and 1890s, produced many views of such everyday scenes for tourists and publishers. The glass negative, one of the large-format plates later printed by the Detroit Publishing Company, preserves the working life of a town where carrying water by animal was still a common way of getting it to households.

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. 0224. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsPeddlers. Water supply. Donkeys. Cactus.Mexico--Guanajuato--Salamanca.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan797 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77490

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