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Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(6)
Title:: Sitio de Tapuyas (métis), avec toute une famille, au lac de Ixiticca, avec plantation de Capaçu (cacao blanc). Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Mixed-race Tapuya family group, posed in front of their open-sided thatched hut, situated in a cocoa plantation near Lake Ixiticca (location untraced). 'Sitio' means a country house or farm in both Spanish and Portuguese .
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(7)
Title:: Sitio de Tapuyas (métis), au bord du Solimões avec 2 arbres Assacu, dont la sêve brûle instantanément la peau. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Mixed-race Tapuya family group posed in front of their thatched house in a forest clearing on the Solimões (Amazon). The poisonous trees mentioned in the caption, a little over five feet high, stand in front of the house. 'Sitio' means a country house or farm in...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(10)
Title:: Manáos. Une famille de Tapuyas, à la porte de leur maison, dans une rue de la ville. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of a Tapuya family at Manaus, posed in front of the entrance to their home. The walls of the row of houses are constructed of baked mud bricks with wattle courses. A woman sits with a spinning wheel on the left (see also print 41).
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(13)
Title:: Hutte d'Indiens, soumis à Tarumá (Rio Negro). Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography View of a thatched hut in a clearing in the Tarumá district, near Manaus.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(16)
Title:: L'intérieur d'une habitation d'Indiens sauvages Técunas sur la rivière Caldeirão, confluent de l'Amazonas, avec une famille entière; le père, la mère, la fille et la grand-mère. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Family group of Tecuna Indians in their hut. The figures have been montaged onto the background.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(20)
Title:: Malocca (rive gauche) ou habitation des Indiens sauvages, Caixanás, à 10 lieus de Tonantins. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography View of an Caixanas Indian village near Tonantins, with a family group seated in front of the large circular thatched malocca (communal house) in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(49)
Title:: Palmier. Pupunhas avec épines (Guilielma speciosa, Mart.). Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a group of peach palms, also known as pupunhas (from the fruit), next to the huts of a village. The accepted modern species name is Bactris gasipaes.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(52)
Title:: [Prints 51-56: Panoramic view of Athens from the Pnyx Hill.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Although mounted out of order on separate album leaves, prints 51-56 form a six-part panoramic view of Athens from the Pnyx Hill (probably from the Observatory). From right to left, the correct arrangement is 51, 52, 54, 55, 53, 56. This view looks roughly...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860-1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.10(1)
Title:: Temple of Bhawun. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking down the paved street, lined with shops, towards the dome of the Devi Vajresri Temple at Kangra.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.10(4)
Title:: Goorkha soldiers and family. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a Gurkha soldier and his family, posed in front of their thatched hut at Dharmshala: 'A Goorkha regiment is stationed in the lines below. These Goorkhas, who fought so well in the rebellion of 1857, are residents of Nepaul originally, but most of them hav...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1863
Extent:: 1 item

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