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South America
Views of Guatemala and Panama

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Photographer: Emil Herbruger (1808-1894). Views of Guatemala and Panama. 1860s, album compiled ca. 1876. 24 albumen prints with rounded corners, mounted to album boards. Most circa 20 x 24 cm. Annotated in pencil below images on the mount; bound in full-canvas album with gilt-embossed title "Amerika 1875-1877".

The German-born photographer Emil (Emilio) Herbruger emigrated to the United States in 1834 and first traveled to Latin America in 1841, working as a photographer in Cuba, Mexico, and Central America. Between 1849-1851, he was active in Colombia, where he also gained recognition as a composer and music teacher. From 1852-1857, inspired by the explorations of Alexander von Humboldt, Herbruger traveled through Peru and Brazil. He later settled in Guatemala, where he produced numerous cartes-de-visite portraits and ethnographic photographs of Indigenous communities. In Panama, portrait photography also became a lucrative line of work. This rare album attests to Herbruger’s mastery of the medium and offers a valuable visual record of the people and cultures of Central America in the mid-19th century. – Some faded in edges, otherwise in very good condition and many with strong contrasts.