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Peon couple – Vintage Wall Art

Peon couple, [between 1880 and 1900] — historic photograph
Peon couple, [between 1880 and 1900]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Peon couple. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Titled simply "Peon couple," this portrait identifies its subjects by social rank rather than by name. "Peon" referred to a rural laborer, often bound to a landowner's estate by debts that were hard to repay, a system that shaped country life across Mexico in the late 1800s. The print carries the copyright line of C.B. Waite, a photographer working in Mexico City, and it reached the Library of Congress through the Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, gathered by a couple who used such images in their travel writing and lectures.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1900]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1880-1900.
NotesTitle transcribed from item. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress) Copyright by C.B. Waite, Mexico City.
SubjectsCouples--Mexico--1880-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,230 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-192216

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