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Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Preussischer Kulturbesitz


Three gables




Collection of photographs from Brazil

Material:

  • 7 photo albums, 4 cases
  • 82 black-and-white small-format photographs (trips through Brazil: buildings, streets, city scenes, people, landscapes, 1936)
  • 10 black-and-white photographs (São Paulo and Paraná: agriculture, landscapes, circa 1938)
  • 19 black-and-white small-format photographs (Manaos, circa 1935)
  • 36 black-and-white photographs (of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador da Bahia and other places: buildings, city scenes, landscapes, people, year unspecified)
  • 24 black-and-white photographs (various places: people, landscapes, city scenes, year unspecified
  • 18 colour photographs (Mato Grosso region: rivers, cities, aerial views, year unspecified – “Município de Barão de Melgaco. Pantanal Matogrossense”)
  • 100 black-and-white photographs (São Paulo: buildings, agriculture – “Vistas de São Paulo”, Commissariado Geral do Estado de São Paulo, circa 1911)
  • 1 collection of historical and more recent photographs (123 photographs and 79 prints: ethnology, city scenes, favelas, landscape scenes, railroads, crafts, and other themes, circa 1870-1980)

Keywords: Brazil, history of photography




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