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'Vistas de Pernambuco' (Recife), Brazil, circa 1860s

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'Vistas de Pernambuco' (Recife), Brazil, circa 1860s
Album containing forty-nine albumen prints, each approx. 8¼ x 10¾ in., mounted one-per-page, the majority titled in pencil in English and/or Portuguese on mounts, tissue guards, inscribed in ink Helen L. Bowen from her husband Natal Rio Grande do Norte Brazil. S.A. Oct. 31 1880 on front free end paper, green morocco, titled and with decorative border in gilt on front cover, g.e., oblong 4to.

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Possibly the work of F. Villela or Augusto Stahl & Co.

Including views and architectural studies of the Opera House, the President's palace, public gardens, government buildings, 'Capanga Bridge', Arco de Santo Antonio, the church hospital, the jail, the theatre, the drainage station, the barracks, the lighthouse; six views of the harbour, serveral street views including Rua barra da Victoria, Rua Nova (illus.), Rua Cadua, Rua da Cruz; and a group portrait of people standing by a river.

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