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[Hotel, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil] – Historic Print

[Hotel, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil], 1942 — historic photograph
[Hotel, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil], 1942. Historic photograph from the Taverns & Saloons 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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[Hotel, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil]

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Ouro Preto, the colonial gold-mining town in Minas Gerais, is the setting here, and the record pairs a hotel with building construction, which suggests work under way on a lodging place in a town of steep, cobbled streets. The photographer was G. E. Kidder Smith, an American architectural photographer who documented Brazilian buildings in the early 1940s. Ouro Preto's 18th-century churches and houses, built during the gold rush, had already drawn the attention of Brazilian preservationists and modernists, so even an everyday scene from the town carries that interest.

Created / published1942
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesKidder-Smith #203-11. Forms part of: Archive of Hispanic Culture Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsHotels--Brazil--Ouro Preto (Minas Gerais)--1940-1950. Building construction--Brazil--Ouro Preto (Minas Gerais)--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,314 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-202071

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