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Box 5

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Vistas Mexicanas, Posada en Tierra Caliente, Estado de Vera-Cruz, #076,, circa 1880s

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 28.5
Identifier: Subseries 2.3
Scope and Contents note

French master of photography at the Saint Cyr Military Academy. In 1876 he was commissioned to photograph the construction of the railway line between Veracruz and Mexico City. Most of his work after that took place in Mexico with his studies on the port of Veracruz in 1880 for the French steamship company La Compagnie Maritime Transatlantique. He also prepared a series of commemorative albums called Vistas Mexicanas between 1880 to 1895.

Dates: circa 1880s