FITZGIBBON WILLIAM (active 1850s 60s) Select group of 14 pho

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FITZGIBBON, WILLIAM (active 1850s-60s)
Select group of 14 photographs, comprising studies of indigenous Guatemalans, street scenes of Guatemala City, and architectural views. Albumen prints, 6x7 1/2 inches (15.2x19 cm.), each with a handwritten penciled caption on mount verso. 1860

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an exceedingly scarce suite of guatemalan views documenting the growing republic and its colonial heritage by an important american photographer. Although photographers were active in Central America as early as 1843, very few of the photographs taken before 1875 survive today.

William Fitzgibbon and his better-known brother John, a prominent American daguerreotypist, operated a studio in Guatemala in the late 1850s-early 1860s. In addition to photographing the people and architecture of Guatamala City, which is the subject of these prints, they also photographed Quetzaltenango and Antigua.