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Street scene, City of Mexico – Antique Photo Print

Street scene, City of Mexico, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
Street scene, City of 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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Among the many Mexico City views in this collection, this glass negative stands out for its close attention to working life in the street: donkeys and peddlers moving through the frame rather than monuments or plazas. The picture was taken sometime between 1880 and 1897, a period when the Mexican capital was growing quickly and its streets still carried heavy traffic in animals, hand-carried goods and street vendors. The attribution to photographer William Henry Jackson rests on a 1898 catalog of his views, which lists a corresponding transparency, and the negative later passed through the Detroit Publishing Company, whose large-format plates documented towns across North America.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 8 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-31417. Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898) 5282" on transparency. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8562. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDonkeys. Peddlers. Streets.Mexico--Mexico City.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 612 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76540

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