Colombia Photograph Album, approximately 1895

Summary

Creator:

Anonymous

Abstract:

The Colombia photograph album contains approximately 110 photographs showing scenes from Cartagena, Turbaco, and Barranquilla in Colombia.

Extent:

approximately 110 photographs in 1 album

Language:

Spanish

Authors:

Collection processed by Terese Austin, April 2015 and finding aid created by Jakob Dopp, February 2020

Background

Scope and Content:

The Colombia photograph album contains approximately 110 photographs showing scenes from Cartagena, Turbaco, and Barranquilla in Colombia. The album (18 x 28 cm) is half bound in black leather. Images of particular interest include photographs related to diplomatic functions, such as views of the British and Spanish consulates, interiors of the American consulates in Barranquilla and Cartagena, two portraits of the British Consul and family, and a series of portraits of the large family of the Spanish Consul, "Familia Zubiria Stevenson." Other images of note include photographs of a bullfight, the tomb and former home of Rafael Núñez, street and architectural views, churches, thatched huts, local inhabitants including mule drivers and cemetery workers, guns at the Baluarte de San Javier, soldiers in formation, and harbor views including views of passanger sternwheel ferry Alicia and a clipper ship. Some photographs have handwritten captions in Spanish.

Acquisition Information:

Purchased from Margolis Moss, January 2006. F-817 .

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Subjects

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Subjects:

Photographs shelf.
Architecture--Colombia--1890-1900.
Buildings--Colombia--1890-1900.
Bullfighting--Colombia--1890-1900.
Churches--Colombia--1890-1900.
Consulates--Colombia--1890-1900.
Country life--Colombia--1890-1900.
Diplomats--Colombia--1890-1900.
Families--Colombia--1890-1900.
Streets--Colombia--1890-1900.

Formats:

Group portraits.
Landscape photographs.
Photograph albums.
Photographic prints.

Places:

Barranquilla (Colombia)
Cartagena (Colombia)
Turbaco (Bolívar, Colombia)