Cabinet card views of Mexico

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Description: Views of rural, village and town life in Mexico, including woman making tortillas; men and women with goods for sale, including pottery; a sugar mill; man and woman on porch of thatched house, woman with jug on head; children in market, San Luis Potosí; street scene, Cuautle; men and women at tables of veranda of a hotel in Puebla; ground around fountain of San Domingo; Guadalajara street and the penitentiary there; palace at Aguascaliente; men and women by railroad near Rascan; groups in the village of Abra; Mt. Popocatapetl; soldiers and others at Hacienda Peoticlos; group of women doing laundry, other hanging out wash; hats and other goods in portals of a market; flat boat in Canal de la Vica; old bridge at Hercules; soldiers in front of Cortés Palace, Coyoacán; bales of [cotton], Teoloyucan; views in Mexico City: grove of Chapultepec; Cinco de Mayo celebration; man with jugs in Alameda.
Names: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 (Photographer)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1883 - 1891 (Questionable); Place: Denver, Col; Publisher: W. H. Jackson & Co.
Library locations: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection; Shelf locator: MFZ (Jackson) 93-6256
Topics: Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547 -- Homes and haunts; Canals -- Mexico; Children -- Mexico; Cinco de Mayo (Mexican holiday); Dwellings -- Mexico; Fountains -- Mexico; Government buildings -- Mexico; Hotels -- Mexico -- Puebla; Laborers -- Mexico; Mountains -- Mexico; Parks -- Mexico -- Mexico City; Plazas -- Mexico; Porches -- Mexico; Prison facilities -- Mexico -- Guadalajara; Railroads -- Mexico; Streets -- Mexico; Sugar industry -- Mexico; Thatched buildings -- Mexico; Chapultepec (Mexico City, Mexico); Coyoacán (Mexico); Cuautla Morelos (Mexico); Mexico City (Mexico); San Luis Potosí (Mexico); Teoloyucan (Mexico)
Genres: Photographs
Notes: Statement of responsibility: W. H. Jackson.; Title devised by cataloger.; Albumen photographic prints mounted on cabinet cards. Negative numbers and titles in negatives. Photographer's name printed on mounts, variously: "W. H. Jackson & Co.," and "W. H. Jacskon Photograph & Publishing Co., Denver Col."; Some views with manuscript inscriptions on verso.; Collection stamps on verso.; Views are numbered: 5231, 5238(?), 5267, 5275, 5276, 5617, 5622, 5628, 6201, 6203, 6215, 6226, 6227, 6229, 6238, 6239, 6243, 6244, 6250, 6278, 6282, 6283, 6405, 6421, 6432, 6445, 645(?), 6461, 6474.; Ownership: Picture Collection transfer, Picture Collection #10690.
Physical Description: Photographic prints; Albumen prints; Cabinet photographs; Extent: 33 photographic prints : albumen, b&w ; 11 x 18 cm. or smaller on mounts 12.5 x 20.3 cm or smaller.; Arranged by negative number when known.
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11755737; Other local Identifier: NYPG93-F180; TMS Object Number: 91PH039; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2cab8f80-42a1-0132-470e-58d385a7b928