Museo La Plata. Archivo Fotográfico General (1937) – Sección Antropología (002) [1882-1906]
Scope & Content:
On September 1937, the “Archivo Fotográfico General del Instituto del Museo” was created by means of a Resolution signed by Joaquin Frenguelli who was in charge of Museo de La Plata between 1934 - 1946 and 1953 - 1955. This archive was formed both to protect the photographic material this inst...
Photographic collection of the Museo de La Plata’s Department of Archaeology 002
Scope & Content:
This section, together with other non-anthropological sections, is part of the photographic collection of the Museo de La Plata’s Department of Archaeology. There, it bears the number 002. The items that compose it were arranged as it was established in the Resolution by the Board of the Institut...
Francisco Ayerza – Escenas del campo argentino (AYE) [c 1890]
Scope & Content:
This collection was created by Mr. Francisco Ayerza (1860-1901) -one of the founders of the Sociedad Fotográfica Argentina de Aficionados (SFAA) that functioned between 1889 and 1926 in the aim to record the life and costumes of the “gaucho”. With these photographs Ayerza thought to edit an illu...
Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte (Prince Roland Bonaparte's Anthropological Collection) [c 1883 – 1889]
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The collection consists of 165 pasteboards with albumen prints mounted individually or forming groups of two and three, stored in four portfolios and a folder with captions and references in additional sheets of paper. It was created by Prince Roland Bonaparte (1858-1924) and it refers mainly to...
“Museo de La Plata, Colección Samuel Boote ” (“Museo de La Plata: Samuel Boote’s Collection”) [c 1885-1888]
Scope & Content:
The collection refers mainly to Araucanian and Tehuelche groups of Patagonia, compraising full-face and profile torso portraits. The photographs were taken in 1885 by Samuel Boote - and then came the most familiar name of the collection -, by order of Francisco Pascasio Moreno, director of Museo...