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Sale 2687 - Lot 316

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(PERU.) Henry Dewitt Moulton, photographer. Two views of the notorious Chincha guano mines. Albumen prints, minor wear, unmounted; professionally matted. Chincha, Peru, circa 1868
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Untitled view of laborers and guards with mule-drawn carts, 7½ x 10 inches. We have not traced this image, but a similar one showing the same white-suited overseer appeared in Alexander Gardner's "Rays of Sunlight from South America" portfolio.

[Prisoners Saying Mass, Sunday Morning, Chincha Islands.] 7¾ x 10 inches; lacking part of lower right corner. Published in Alexander Gardner's "Rays of Sunlight from South America" portfolio.

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