Skidmore College
Spring 2002
LS 210: Travel Writers & Travel Liars in Latin America, 1500-1900

	Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
English born; US resident; photographer of US (railway surveys, San Francisco), locomotion (human, animal) Central America (1875)

Photographs of Guatemala

Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

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Recepción Quezaltenango

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Laundry Quezaltenango

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Plaza, Totonicapán

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Indian Church, Santa María, Guatemala

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Volcano, Antigua, Guatemala

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Coffee Picking, Las Nubes Plantation, Guatemala

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Coffee Plantation, San Isidro, Guatemala

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Shipping Coffee, Champerico, Guatemala

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Guatemala City, Prison

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Guatemala City, Cemetery

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Guatemala City, Panorama

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Anac Stone, Guatemala

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Source of Photos:

Original: E. Muyridge, The Pacific coast of Central America and Mexico : the Isthmus of Panama, Guatemala, and the cultivation and shipment of coffee, 1877 (71 photographic plates)
Reproductions: E. Bradford Burns, Eadweard Muybridge in Guatemala, 1875 : the photographer as social recorder (Berkeley, UC Press, 1986)

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