Lavanderas, City of Mexico – Historic Print
![Lavanderas, City of Mexico, [between 1884 and 1900] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/db/dbbe2c7bf2a3-L.webp)
(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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This historic print of Lavanderas, City of Mexico brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Lavanderas, City of Mexico
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Washerwomen, or *lavanderas*, at work in Mexico City were a common sight at the city's washing places in the late nineteenth century. The image is a photochrom, a process that transferred a black-and-white photograph onto lithographic stones and added color in layers, which gives it the soft, saturated tones seen here. It is catalogued as number 51148 from the Detroit Publishing Company and was kept in an album the firm used as a reference in its office, so it also shows how the company organized and sold its views of places around the world.
| Created / published | [between 1884 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 51148. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955. |
| Subjects | Laundry.Mexico--Mexico City. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,680 × 3,774 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220710 |
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