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Mexico, street scenes, cargadores – Historic Photo Reproduction

Mexico, street scenes, cargadores, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
Mexico, street scenes, cargadores, [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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Men known as *cargadores*, or porters, who hauled loads through Mexico City's streets for a living, are the focus of this glass-plate negative. Their work was physically punishing: many carried heavy goods on their backs, steadied by a strap across the forehead, and they were a familiar sight in the city's markets and commercial districts. The catalog attributes the view to William Henry Jackson, who photographed Mexico in the 1880s and 1890s, and the record suggests a possible old aqueduct in the background. Jackson's negatives later passed to the Detroit Publishing Company, which reproduced many of his Mexican scenes as prints.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 8 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution to Jackson and locale based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Possibly old aqueduct in rear. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 5289. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsPorters.Mexico--Mexico City.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 640 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76538

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