Latin American Studies in Library Special Collections

This collection contains photographs, etc., of both persons and places in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Individual photographs of Brazil and Mexico primarily, 1870s to 1930s.

Album of photographs of travel through Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Hawaii, probably dating from 1883-1889.

265 glass negatives, primarily of Chile, but also Peru, Mexico and Central America.

Photographs of La Guelaguetza and Saints Day Celebration festivals held in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1982 and 1985.

Mario Alberto Jiménez (1911-61) was a Costa Rican journalist. The collection consists of 19th and 20th century Costa Rican documents, correspondence, pamphlets on various subjects, photographs, post cards, and miscellaneous ephemera.

Collection consists of postcards, photographs, and photograph albums related to life in Costa Rica collected by Werner F. Leopold. The bulk of the collection documents social life and customs in Costa Rica and includes urban, rural, and nature scenes. Also includes photographs of earthquake effects, views of the Irazu volcano, images from Barbados, Panama, and Venezuela, and a copy of a German manuscript related to a journey from Germany to Costa Rica in 1853.

Three albums containing photographs of a journey by Gustav Glage, a German engineer, from Lima to Huánuco, around 1910.

Album of photographs (12 x 19 cm or smaller, some cropped) taken in Mexico, probably between 1883 and 1900.

The collection consists of artwork, certificates, diplomas, newspaper issues and photographs relating to the Chilean writer and poet Gabriela Mistral (born Lucila Godoy y Alcayata) (1889-1957). Ranging in date from circa 1924 to 1948, the collection highlights the fame and recognition Gabriela Mistral achieved both in Chile and worldwide. The contents reveal her many friendships with artistic and political contemporaries, as well as the many admirers of her work. Includes photograph albums related to Chile and Mistral's career.

Album of photographs of Montevideo, Uruguay and surrounding area from 1892 by John Fitz-Patrick.

Souvenir album, dated May 2, 1919, containing 50 gelatin print photographs of the city of Montevideo.

Album containing ten photos of streets, market place, and special buildings of Montevideo, Uruguay, issued by Bate y Ca. during the 1870s.

Photograph album, probably from 1871, containing 25 urban views of Lima, Peru, and 64 studio portraits of middle and upper class women of Lima by Eugenio Courret.

Album containing 35 amateur small (9 x 13 cm) color snapshot photographs of Rio de Janeiro.

Album of 55 gelatin silver prints (178 x 235 mm), including two 4-part folding panoramas (178 x 940 mm), dated Oct. 3, 1902-May 7, 1903, documenting the construction of a large dock facility on the southern side of the Riachuelo near the South Basin of the port of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Scrapbook containing the travel account by Ervine Denison York, General Manager and Assistant Vice-President of the American Telephone Company, of his travels from Washington, D.C. to Caracas, Venezuela via Cuba, between April 24,1889 and Mar. 30, 1890, illustrated with 103 photographs (some cyanotypes), most of which were taken by York himself, printed maps and illustrations, calling cards, bank notes, postage stamps, menus, business correspondence and other memorabilia of his travels.