El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico.
Brooklyn: The Albertype Company, 1893. 8vo, card stock wraps, [18] pp. Illustrated with half-tone photographs measuring 5 ¾ x 4 ¼ inches. Some wear to cover, fine contents, near fine overall. Near Fine. Item #List2533
A scarce photographically illustrated title on El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, published by the Albertype Company of Brooklyn, New York. Photographs include an untitled panorama of El Paso; a view of El Paso showing The Angeles, La Plaza and Mount Franklin; El Paso’s City Hall; a South El Paso street scene; El Paso’s courthouse, San Antonio Street; a montage of several businesses in El Paso; an outdoor scene entitled “Mexican Town and Mount Franklin;” Hotel Dieu Hospital; an unidentified high school; a photograph of several subjects in front of a smelter entitled “Smelter;” a montage of Fort Bliss; the Church of Guadalupe in Ciudad Juarez; an interior of same; Acequia Madre in Ciudad Juarez; a street scene in Ciudad Juarez; a scene of mesquite wood merchants; a domestic scene entitled “Patio of Mexican House;” a montage with two images of Mexican subjects entitled “Lovers” and “Jarabe - Mexican National Dance;” and a montage of two women working. Overall an interesting collection of images showing U.S. attitudes about Mexico as much as the scenery and subjects themselves. OCLC locates one copy, at Yale.
Price: $950.00