Pictorial Collections

The album has typed captions above photos and is divided into subject subdivisions separated by captioned pages.

Each photo. signed by the author.

Images include Laguna Pueblo, houses at Acomita, schoolhouses at Acomita and Laguna, area around Acoma and McCarty's, Presidential train at Laguna Pueblo, Anglo and American Indian school teachers and pupils, families in front of tents, landscapes, an "Indian shrine", a group of American Indian girls wearing fringed leather dresses and holding bows (identified as a "bow and arrow drill"), and a clear, detailed photo of a large collection of Indian painted pottery.

Photos apparently taken in South American countries other than Brazil include residential buildings (one with fantastic, eclectic architecture), a Victorian-era interior, family groups, horses and carriages, gauchos with cattle, and a landscape taken at Isla de Lobos - on the Atlantic coast of Uruguay - showing sea lions on a rocky seashore. There are many blank pages in album.

Bound in green cloth with leather corners and spine; title "Amerique du Sud, 1886" in gilt on cover; marbled end papers.

Some negatives are unprinted.

The text is both explanatory and propagandistic. A number of comments refute allegations attributed to a Jesuit named Kenney, who is said to have slandered, in a sensationalistic manner, the school and its teaching methods. Comments reflect Post-revolutionary ideology, issues of agrarian and educational reform, and conflicts between Church and State.

Larger print is a group portrait of Rodolfo Elias Calles and Tomas Garrido Canabal, Governors of the Mexican states of Sonora and Tabasco, with Yaqui Indian schoolchildren.

Slides depict Barelas area school children.

Images are made by the collotype process. Filed by country in the Postcard Collection 995-027, Box 2 Latin America and Other Countries.

Of special interest are photographs taken at dance parties held for military personnel during World War II. There is also a folder of photographs showing methods and products of Southwestern-style furniture making classes.

Copied on slide film from the original albumen prints in two albums at the Museu da Republica in Rio de Janeiro in 1987 by Stella de Sa Rego. Prints and negatives made from the slides by Michael Hagar of the George Eastman House in 1989.

Many photographs are badly faded.

Plates listed in portfolio.

"La edicion consta de 300 ejemplares del no. 1 al no. 300".

"Este portafolio se imprimido con los grabados originales sobre papel 'Parsons Diploma Parchment', 56x86,5 cms. de 88 kilos. Para el portafolio de tamano 34x41 cms. se utilizado 'Corsican Wove Antiquem azul, de 58x89 cms. y 182 kilos".

This collection contains 10 linocuts by various TGP members, each signed in pencil by the artist. The prints focus on various events related to C.T.A.L. (Confederacion Trabajadores de America Latina) which occurred between 1938-1948, as well as caricatures concerning facism.

This collection contains ten original color lithographs by the Mexican artist, Carlos Merida, published in 1940 by Talleres Graficos de la Nacion. The subject is the carnival, as it is celebrated in towns throughout Mexico, and the prints depict dancers and revelers in elaborate costumes and masks. An introductory text in English describes the carnival celebration and places the prints in specific geographic contexts.

This is no. 13/30 of the second edition. Charlot cut the planks in 1918, printed the first edition in 1920 and this second edition in 1977.

Titles: 1. On le condamne, 2. La croix recue, 3. Premiere chute, 4. Sa mere le joint, 5. Simon l'aide, 6. La sainte-face, 8. Il pleure sur nous, 9. Troisieme chute, 10 On joue sa robe, 11 On le cloue, 12 Il meurt, 13 Marie le recoit, 14 Le tabernacle.

Fiche set and indexed guide are available in Center for Southwest Research Reading Room.

The Cobb Memorial Collection consists of photographic prints from the Cobbs Studio, which operated in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1889 to 1942. Most of these were produced by the Cobbs Studio, although a small number bear the stamps of other Albuquerque studios. W. Calvin Brown, Albright's Art Parlors, M.B. Howard, and others. The images were made, for the most part in or near Albuquerque and include persons, organizations, events, and places.

This collection contains the works of many artists. Only a few have been indexed by name in this record.

Ten signed color lithographs by Carlos Merida depicting folk dances of Mexico. Titles and a brief text in English on the inside front and back covers of the folio provides information about each dance.

Ten color reproduction prints of details of murals printed in Mexico by Diego Rivera between 1922 and 1942. Locations and dates of murals painted by Rivera in Mexico and the United States are listed on the inside cover. However, the prints in this folio are only of three locations in Mexico: The Ministry of Education (1923-28) and National Palace (1942-46) in Mexico City and the Cortez Palace (1929-28) in Cuernvaca, Mexico. There is a two page text by Justino Fernandez entitled "Diego Rivera: Artist of the New World" following the prints.

With introductory essay by Dr. Joe Ben Wheat and a list of the plates.

In box (40 x 32 cm.).

"The prints were made from the original 5"x7" glass and acetate plate negatives made between 1910 and 1940." x.

These photographs were made by the famed archaeologist, Earl H. Morris, as part of the documentation of his field research projects dealing with the Anasazi.

Cover sheet for the album is inscribed "Este album fue hecho para la libreria del senor don Julio Freyssinier Morin."

1 page of text prologue is written by Jean Charlot. Print titles are indexed: 1. El Rio Palizada, 2. Pescador, 3. Mujer sentada, 4. Tejedor de sombreros de Becal, 5. En la hamaca, 6. El henequenero, 7. Salinas de Celestun, 8. Jardin de Hecelchacan.

The Film Poster Collection contains publicity posters from 276 motion pictures, 1951-1969. The posters provide examples of advertising by the American motion picture industry in the mid-twentieth century. The collection is divided into four series: I. Dramas, II. Comedies, III. Family entertainment, IV. Other genres. Other genres include mysteries, adult films, and foreign films. Some of the posters have accompanying publicity including photographs, smaller advertisements, and film reviews. There is also a display manual for one of the films.