Lot of 14 mounted albumen photographs, including 12 featuring mining scenes in Santo Domingo, Mexico. Each of the twelve inscribed "'Our Mining Camp' / Santa [sic] Domingo / Mexico" with an additional inscription describing the subject on verso. Highlights include an image of three Mexican miners with verso inscribed, "No. 1. Secretary of Mining deputation / No. 2 Custom House officer. / No. 3. Burro driver;" an image of two miners flanking a line of burros with verso inscribed, "Burro train and drivers / ready to start for the mine / to load with ore;" and an image of a man riding a burro down the side of a mountain with verso inscribed, "Taking an invalid down / the trail to the lower / Camp." Additional photographs include one indoor view of a church in Juarez, Mexico, dated January 4, 1892, and one mining scene with no inscription. Condition: Photographs with some toning, surface soil, and wear to mount edges (some of which are flaking).
Lot of 14 mounted albumen photographs, including 12 featuring mining scenes in Santo Domingo, Mexico. Each of the twelve inscribed "'Our Mining Camp' / Santa [sic] Domingo / Mexico" with an additional inscription describing the subject on verso. Highlights include an image of three Mexican miners with verso inscribed, "No. 1. Secretary of Mining deputation / No. 2 Custom House officer. / No. 3. Burro driver;" an image of two miners flanking a line of burros with verso inscribed, "Burro train and drivers / ready to start for the mine / to load with ore;" and an image of a man riding a burro down the side of a mountain with verso inscribed, "Taking an invalid down / the trail to the lower / Camp." Additional photographs include one indoor view of a church in Juarez, Mexico, dated January 4, 1892, and one mining scene with no inscription. Condition: Photographs with some toning, surface soil, and wear to mount edges (some of which are flaking).
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