The Resource [Photograph album documenting the Wabash Mexican Mid-Winter Tour through Mexico in 1895]
[Photograph album documenting the Wabash Mexican Mid-Winter Tour through Mexico in 1895]
Resource Information
The item [Photograph album documenting the Wabash Mexican Mid-Winter Tour through Mexico in 1895] represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item [Photograph album documenting the Wabash Mexican Mid-Winter Tour through Mexico in 1895] represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- Photograph album compiled by Otto L. Mersman, documenting a trip to Mexico by a group of prominent businessmen from St. Louis in January of 1895.
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 album (150 photographic prints)
- Note
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- Title supplied by dealer
- Photographs are mounted to rectos and versos of 13 leaves of stiff cream cardboard, six photos to a page; without any captions or identifying notes
- Bound in dark brown leather boards; gold-stamped cover title "Mexican Tour 1895;" gilt floral endpapers. Large bookplate of Otto & Mary Mersman on front pastedown
- Part of the Photograph Album Collection (Collection 94) in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, UCLA
- Label
- [Photograph album documenting the Wabash Mexican Mid-Winter Tour through Mexico in 1895]
- Title
- [Photograph album documenting the Wabash Mexican Mid-Winter Tour through Mexico in 1895]
- Title variation
- Mexican tour 1895
- Subject
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- Mexicans -- Photographs
- Peasants -- Mexico -- Photographs
- Railroad travel -- Mexico -- Photographs
- Church buildings -- Mexico -- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Kodak card photographs
- Photograph albums
- Bullfights -- Mexico -- Photographs
- Torreón (Coahuila, Mexico) -- Photographs
- Mexico -- Photographs
- Bull rings -- Mexico -- Photographs
- Mexico City (Mexico) -- Photographs
- Horse-drawn rail cars -- Mexico | Mexico City -- Photographs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Photograph album compiled by Otto L. Mersman, documenting a trip to Mexico by a group of prominent businessmen from St. Louis in January of 1895.
- Biographical or historical data
- Businessman and civic leader in St. Louis, Missouri.
- Cataloging source
- CLU
- Characteristic
- picture
- Summary expansion
- The businessmen and their wives travel to Mexico aboard a special excursion train. According to an article in the Jan. 17, 1895 edition of the Fort Worth Gazette, the train was one of the finest ever seen in Texas, "consisting of three sleepers, one dining car, an observation car, and a baggage car. The cars were of the most elegant description and were fitted up in the most luxurious style. The observation car contained barber shop and baths." The group of some fifty travelers on this month-long excursion, called the "Wabash Mexican Special Mid-Winter Tour," set out from St. Louis on the Wabash Railroad, traveling through Kansas City, Milano, Texas, and San Antonio. There they continued on the Southern Pacific to Eagle Pass, then the Mexican International Railway to Torreón, and finally the Mexican Central Railway to Mexico City. The 150 photographs, of which 98 are Kodak No. 2 card photographs with circular images (9 cm diameter), depict churches, bell towers, plazas, parks, and city streets of Mexico City. Two photographs display a curious "split screen" format, with two long rectangular images printed side by side. A streetcar is visible in one of the photographs taken along Reforma de los Leones; another photo captures the Cafe La Concordia in the historic center of the city. There are numerous photos of the men and women travelers, posing in parks, on city benches, in horse carriages, and riding donkeys. Several photos were taken from train cars, and show tracks and trestles and desert landscapes; several show the train stopped in small towns, and local vendors selling fruit and souvenirs to the passengers. The portraits of peasants show very poor people in rags, often with their dogs, sheep, and donkeys, and small children crying, perhaps frightened by the wealthy American capitalists and their wives standing nearby, dressed in bulky black suits and dresses. There are photos of the parade of matadors and bulls at a local bull fight, the baroque facades of Mexican churches, and several scenes of the monuments, headstones, and niches of a cemetery. The shadow of the photographer is visible in several photos; and several others document the photographer carrying his box camera, and also photographing a peasant holding a sign advertising a bullfight
- Technique
- not applicable
- Label
- [Photograph album documenting the Wabash Mexican Mid-Winter Tour through Mexico in 1895]
- Note
-
- Title supplied by dealer
- Photographs are mounted to rectos and versos of 13 leaves of stiff cream cardboard, six photos to a page; without any captions or identifying notes
- Bound in dark brown leather boards; gold-stamped cover title "Mexican Tour 1895;" gilt floral endpapers. Large bookplate of Otto & Mary Mersman on front pastedown
- Part of the Photograph Album Collection (Collection 94) in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, UCLA
- Color
- black and white
- Dimensions
- 41 x 28 cm (album)
- Extent
- 1 album (150 photographic prints)
- Note
- Spec. Coll. copy: in beige cloth clamshell box. Purchase, Denning House, 2014.
- Other physical details
- gelatin silver
- Primary support material
- paper
- Secondary support material
- paper
- Specific material designation
- photoprint
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)878166125
- ucoclc878166125
- Label
- [Photograph album documenting the Wabash Mexican Mid-Winter Tour through Mexico in 1895]
- Note
-
- Title supplied by dealer
- Photographs are mounted to rectos and versos of 13 leaves of stiff cream cardboard, six photos to a page; without any captions or identifying notes
- Bound in dark brown leather boards; gold-stamped cover title "Mexican Tour 1895;" gilt floral endpapers. Large bookplate of Otto & Mary Mersman on front pastedown
- Part of the Photograph Album Collection (Collection 94) in the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, UCLA
- Color
- black and white
- Dimensions
- 41 x 28 cm (album)
- Extent
- 1 album (150 photographic prints)
- Note
- Spec. Coll. copy: in beige cloth clamshell box. Purchase, Denning House, 2014.
- Other physical details
- gelatin silver
- Primary support material
- paper
- Secondary support material
- paper
- Specific material designation
- photoprint
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)878166125
- ucoclc878166125
Subject
- Bull rings -- Mexico -- Photographs
- Bullfights -- Mexico -- Photographs
- Church buildings -- Mexico -- Photographs
- Horse-drawn rail cars -- Mexico | Mexico City -- Photographs
- Kodak card photographs
- Mexicans -- Photographs
- Mexico -- Photographs
- Mexico City (Mexico) -- Photographs
- Peasants -- Mexico -- Photographs
- Photograph albums
- Photographic prints
- Railroad travel -- Mexico -- Photographs
- Torreón (Coahuila, Mexico) -- Photographs
Genre
Library Locations
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Charles E. Young Research LibraryBorrow it280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1575, US34.0749691 -118.441466
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Science and Engineering LibraryBorrow it8270 Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-9810, US34.068987 -118.442659
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UCLA LibraryBorrow itLos Angeles, CA, US
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UCLA Library Special CollectionsBorrow itA1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1575, US34.0749691 -118.441466
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