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Subject Portrait photography Name Museo de La Plata, Archivo Fotográfico General, 1882-1906

1. EAP207/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP207/1
Title:
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...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1882-1906
Extent:
218 TIFF images

2. EAP207/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP207/2
Title:
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...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1885-1906
Extent:
241 TIFF images

3. EAP207/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP207/3
Title:
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 Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
12 TIFF images

4. EAP207/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP207/4
Title:
Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte (Prince Roland Bonaparte's Anthropological Collection) [c 1883 – 1889]
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
French and Spanish
Date Range:
1883-1889
Extent:
178 TIFF images

5. EAP207/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP207/5
Title:
“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...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
c 1885-1888
Extent:
12 TIFF images

6. EAP207/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP207/6
Title:
“Museo de La Plata, Archivo Histórico y Fotográfico, Colección Cartes de visite” [c 1860-1880]
Scope & Content:
These cartes de visite represents mainly Andean indigenous peoples (34 documents over a total number of 42), comprising full length and torso studio photographic portraits. The remaining cards represent different persons of European origin from Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. These cards -small...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
c 1860-1880
Extent:
84 TIFF images

7. EAP207/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP207/7
Title:
“Museo de La Plata: Colección Christiano Junior” (Museo de La Plata: Christiano Junior’s Collection) [c 1876-1878]
Scope & Content:
These photographs refer probably to the first anthropological and archaeological collections of Francisco Pascasio Moreno (1852-1919), which were the result of several expeditions he undertook to Patagonia and Northwest Argentina between 1873 and 1876. In 1876 this collections, alongside the afo...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
c 1876-1878
Extent:
8 TIFF images

8. EAP207/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP207/8
Title:
“Museo Antropológico y Arqueológico de Buenos Aires: Colección Exposición Universal de París 1878” (“Museo Antropológico y Arqueológico de Buenos Aires: Universal Exposition Collection, Paris 1878”) [1878]
Scope & Content:
The collection was part of the Museo Antropológico y Arqueológico de Buenos Aires founded in 1877 by Francisco Pascasio Moreno (1852-1919). That institution was closed in 1884 and all the collections were transferred to the Museo de La Plata created the same year by Moreno with the support of pr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
22 TIFF images

9. EAP207/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP207/9
Title:
“Museo de La Plata, Departamento de Etnografía, Colección Omar Gancedo” [1970]
Scope & Content:
The images that compose this collection - the only photographic records produced by Gancedo remaining in Museo de La Plata - correspond to the trip carried out to Torín Kué in 1970. These photographs were distributed in two albums, mounted on cardboard and divided by the author following a sub...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
1970
Extent:
105 TIFF images

10. EAP207/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP207/10
Title:
Colección Gob. Pedro Godoy - Vistas de la Tierra del Fuego [c 1895 ]
Scope & Content:
This collection is composed of one album that contains 45 photographs taken circa 1895 -five of them of indigenous people- and collected by Pedro Godoy, Governor of Territorio Nacional de Tierra del Fuego at that time. These photographs illustrate the landscape, buildings, indigenous peoples an...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Spanish
Date Range:
c 1895
Extent:
45 TIFF images