Sale 2531 | Lot 260v
260 •(BRAZIL & ARGENTINA)
Album associated with the Brazil Border Commission Survey with approximately 45 photographs by an accomplished official photographer, ranging from remote pastoral locations in northern Brazil to breathtaking views in southern Argentina.
With winding street scenes of Bahia and Petropolis, informal studies of indigenous peoples, picturesque river views in Santos, topographic scenes in La Plata and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, Lagos San Martin and Argentino, native and official maritime vessels, government buildings, majestic views of Brazo Cacabuco and Rio Mayer, and delegation members riding on horseback or camping en route. Printing-out paper prints, the images measuring 3¼x4½ to 4¼x6 inches (8.3x11.4 to 10.8x15.2 cm.), and the reverse, each with a caption, written on a label affixed to the mount below the prints. 4to, blue pictorial cloth. 1890s
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