Yaqui photograph albums, circa 1908 - circa 1909

Summary

Abstract:

Photographs documenting conflicts in Northern Mexico, particularly of Yaqui people. Includes studio portraits as well as views of villages, Yaqui dancers, soldiers and prisoners of war, deportations to Yucatan, hangings and other executions, groups of children and adults, peace talks at Hermosillo, etc.

Extent:

96 digital objects 1 box (3 albums, 96 photographic prints) : b&w ; 5 x 7 in.

Language:

Collection materials are in English

Background

Scope and content:

Photographs documenting conflicts in Northern Mexico, particularly of Yaqui people. Includes studio portraits as well as views of villages, Yaqui dancers, soldiers and prisoners of war, deportations to Yucatan, hangings and other executions, groups of children and adults, peace talks at Hermosillo, etc.

Physical location:

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Rules or conventions:

Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Note:

Chiefly by an unidentified photographer. Some studio portraits identified in negative as: by W. Roberts, Hermosillo, Jan. 28, 1909.

Each photograph numbered in ink, presumably by compiler or photographer: B.1 through B.96.

Most bear ms. captions, in English.

Photographs are of uniform format and most may be by a single photographer. Several may be copy photographs, particularly those of hangings.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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