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(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,
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x9 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
[3,000/4,500]
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.”
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(PANORAMA)
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HENRICHSEN
A 14-part panorama titled “Portland, Oregon, From Heights West of the City Looking East.”
Showing the mountains, city scape, and the river of the great Northwest city. Silver prints, 12
measuring 7x9 and 2 measuring 7x7
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inches (17.8x22.9 and 17.8x19.7 cm.), overall size 7x123
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inches (17.8x313.7 cm.), with the photographer’s credit and the date in the negative, and with a
rule, number, and a caption printed on the mounts recto; each panel joined on verso, and housed
in a 4to-sized gilt-lettered red cloth binding, the first panel detached from the rest and laid down
on the front cover. 1903
[800/1,200]
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