(COSTA RICA) Album containing 48 photographs of San Jose, Costa Rica and its immediate environs by the Paynter Brothers. With views of coffee harvesting and production, including scenes of workers (children picking coffee), coffee plantations, interiors of ornate offices of company executives, views of the Teatro Nacional "Ladies Restaurant," railroad scenes, construction, street scenes, a criminal being punished, topographic views and more. Albumen (5), printing-out paper (13), and silver (30) prints, 7 1/2x9 inches (19.1x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, several with numeric notations or a caption in the negative and a few with a hand stamp on verso. Oblong 4to, cloth, soiled and worn; contents disbound. 1905
A scarce group of images depicting activities associated with one of the nation's key industries, coffee production. Also included are picturesque landscapes, railroad trestles, and early industrial views. A typewritten label affixed to the first page reads, "Photographs of Costa Rica-Central America obtained by Robert B. Burton, Sr., From photographer at Port-Limon, Costa Rica, C.A. 1905."
