Tabasco Rubber Plantations Photograph Collection
Scope and Contents Note
Eighty-four black and white photographs depicting views circa 1904 of three rubber plantations in the state of Tabasco, Mexico: El Coco, Constancia, and Mercedes, near Frontera on the Gulf coast. Some of the photographs were made by C. B. Waite or Adams Hermanos (Fotografía Americana). Owners, administrators, and laborers are pictured in individual and group photographs; R.A. Morrell appears in photographs of both El Coco and Constancia. Thirty-four images of El Coco plantation depict its headquarters, main house, camp laborers' houses and families, church, stable/grainery, dock, landing, rubber trees, coconut plants, banana trees, and livestock. Thirty-one photographs of Constancia plantation show its headquarters, workers, camps, rubber nursery, transplanted trees, grasslands, store, seashore, forest, and wild rubber trees. Four pictures of Frontera are of the plaza, native houses and coconut palms, and the main street. Thirteen views of the Mercedes plantation show rubber trees, the tree nursery, Mercedes camp, the superintendent and his house, and livestock. Two shots of San Juan Bautista show riverboats at dock.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1904
Language of Materials
English
Access Restrictions
Unrestricted.
Use Restrictions
Standard copyright restrictions apply.
Full Extent
84 photographic prints; 4x5 in. to 6½x8½ in.
Abstract
84 black-and-white photographs of three rubber plantations in the state of Tabasco, Mexico.
Acquisition Information
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Processing Information
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- Title
- Tabasco Rubber Plantations Photograph Collection
- Status
- Edited Partial Draft
- Author
- Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
- Date
- 2008
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- 2021 June: Edited by Carla O. Alvarez to fix compliance check errors to prepare for the migration to new TARO website.
- 2021 November: Edited by Devon Murphy to update control access terms and formatting based on the TARO Control Access List.
- 2025 July: Revised by Ryan Sullivant to fix validation errors prior to ingestion into ArchivesSpace.
Repository Details
Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository
2300 Red River Street
Austin Texas 78712 United States
(512) 495-4578
bensonspecialcollections@austin.utexas.edu