L.F.S. Lipp Photograph Album
Scope and Contents
The L.F.S. Lipp Photograph Album documents Lipp’s trip to Mexico in 1914. The album consists of photographs of Mazatlan, Altata, San Blas, Santa Rosalia, Mexico City, Ensenada, Oaxaca, San Luis Potasi, the Gulf of Mexico, Salamanca, Cape San Lucas, La Paz, and Guadalajara. Of particular interest are photographs of street vendors selling milk, wood, chickens, straw, candles, and water. Also included are photographs of thatch buildings, cactus, Judas dolls (life size effigies which represent problems in the world), fireworks, pottery shops, rurales (the Mexican Rural Guard), the Sanatorium Guadalajara, and more. The album is compiled almost entirely of photographs of local people. There are only a handful of photographs of tourists. Many of the album pages have short one or two words captions in pencil in English and sometimes Spanish.
Dates
- Creation: 1914
Creator
- Lipp, L.F.S. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical Note
L.F.S. Lipp traveled to Mexico in 1914, visiting Mazatlan, Altata, San Blas, Santa Rosalia, Mexico City, Ensenada, Oaxaca, San Luis Potasi, the Gulf of Mexico, Salamanca, Cape San Lucas, La Paz, and Guadalajara.
Extent
0.75 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Source of Acquisition
Hamilton, Robert S.
Accruals
2011-013
- Title
- L.F.S. Lipp Photograph Album
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Amanda Lanthorne
- Date
- 03/07/2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections & University Archives Repository