Photographs referred to in Engineer's Report, 1902-1903

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Summary

Creators:
Buenos Aires Southern Dock Company, Ltd.
Abstract:
Album of 55 gelatin silver prints (178 x 235 mm), including two 4-part folding panoramas (178 x 940 mm), dated Oct. 3, 1902-May 7, 1903, documenting the construction of a large dock facility on the southern side of the Riachuelo near the South Basin of the port of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Extent:
1 album (55 photographic prints) : gelatin silver, 34 x 24 cm (album)
Language:
Finding aid is written in English. and Materials are in English.

Background

Scope and content:

The photographs document the construction of this Southern Dock--Dock Sud, including the laying of tracks (directly on the ground) for a Decauville railway system for use by steam driven cranes, the building of a huge stone seawall, details of the extensive wooden bridgeworks, the pouring of concrete, and the seemingly endless manual labor required to complete the project. There is also a photograph of a drawing of the dock as it would look when finally completed.

Biographical / historical:

The construction of the main port of Buenos Aires, begun in 1887 with funds supplied by Argentine businessman Edward Madero, was completed in 1898. In that same year, the Buenos Aires Southern Dock Company was formed in London to build a dock on the south side of the Riachuelo, a project that had been planned ten years earlier but had never been started for lack of money.

Acquisition information:
Purchase, Margolis Moss, 2013.
Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
Physical facet:

Photographs are mounted, one to a page, on rectos and versos of leaves of stiff brown paper. Photographs (including all segments of the two panoramic photographs) are numbered 133-193, presumably to correspond to references in the Engineer's report (although some sequences of photos are bound out of numerical order), with identifying captions and dates in white ink in lower left corner of photograph.

Bound in marbled paper boards, heavily damp stained; brown cloth spine, with white paper spine label bearing ms. title "Photographs. 10 1902 to...." Bookseller's ticket on verso of upper cover: "Monquaut Vasquez Millan, San Martin 102 esq. Piedad, Buenos Aires."

Spec. Coll. copy: Modern mylar dust jacket; in modern beige cloth clamshell box.

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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