Sidney D. Markman Collection of Eadweard Muybridge Prints
(Collection 8)
The Sidney D. Markman Collection of Eadweard Muybridge Prints contains 142 black and white 9" x 6" copy prints of original Eadweard Muybridge photographs of colonial architecture, landscapes, coffee plantations, and daily life in Central America, taken in 1875. For more background on the Guatemalan photographs, see Eadweard Muybridge in Guatemala, 1875: The Photographer as Social Recorder (photographs by Eadweard J. Muybridge; text by E. Bradford Burns), University of California Press, 1986. (LAL F1464.B94)
Professor Ralph Lee Woodward of the History Department at Tulane remarked that the Muybridge photographs "give us an exceptionally valuable window on Guatemala in 1875. They are quite remarkable in what they tell us about Central America in that period." (quoted from the dustjacket of Eadweard Muybridge in Guatemala, 1875 ).
For this list the photographs have been renumbered, 1-142, in the order in which they are arranged in the collection, but the original numbers are shown in the right margin. The original albums are held by the Stanford University Libraries, which retains copyright.
Representative images from Guatemala in this collection
Collection Inventory
Box 1
(Costa Rica)
1. Muelles (city) (probably Costa Rica and not Panama). 4220
(El Salvador)
2. La Unión. 4296
3. La Libertad. 4299
(Guatemala)
4. Antigua. 4632
5. Coffee pickers at dinner - Antigua. 4459
6. Coffee pickers on Fete Day - Antigua. 4460
7. Barranca del Incienzo. 4353
8. Barranca. 4355
9. Barranca at Las Nubes. 4442
10. Iglesia de Candelaria desde el Cerro del Carmen. 4326
11. Chagres. 4287
12. Chagres. (2 copies) 4288
13. Loading coffee at Champerico. 4468
14. Return of a coffee launch by moonlight - Champerico. 4469
15. Iglesia parroquial, Esquintla. 4307
16. Calle Real (6a Av.) desde el Calvario (iglesia) - Guatemala City. (4 copies) 4312
17. Guatemala City. 4313
18. Church of the Cerro del Carmen - Guatemala City. 4329
19. Cathedral - Guatemala City. 4330
20. Cathedral - Guatemala City. (2 copies) 4331
21. Iglesia de San Francisco - Guatemala City. 4335
22. Palace of Government - Guatemala City. 4336
23. Theater - Guatemala City. 4337
24. Plaza - Guatemala City. (2 copies) 4341
25. Universidad de San Carlos - Guatemala City. 4342
26. Sociedad Económica - Guatemala City. 4343
27. Patio, Sociedad Económica Amigos del País - Guatemala City. 4344
28. Public laundry - Guatemala City. 4346
29. Cemetery - Guatemala City. 4351
Box 2
(Guatemala)
30. Transplanting young coffee trees - Hacienda de Mateo. 4451
31. Falls of Helena. 4441
32. Lake Atitlán. 4382
33. Lake Atitlán. 4385
34. Lake Atitlán. (2 copies) 4386
35. Lake Atitlán. 4388
36. Lake Atitlán. 4390
37. Lake Atitlán. 4391
38. Planting seed for coffee - Las Nubes. 4373
39. Coffee mill - Las Nubes. 4434
40. Village of coffee pickers - Las Nubes. 4436
41. Las Nubes. 4437
42. Husking coffee - Las Nubes. 4438
43. Matapalo tree - Las Nubes. 4439
44. Matapalo tree - Las Nubes. 4449
45. Coffee plantation - Las Nubes. 4453
46. First day of the coffee season - Las Nubes. 4454
47. Coffee plantation - Las Nubes. 4456
48. Spreading the coffee crop to dry - Las Nubes. 4458
49. Coffee pickers house - Las Nubes. 4461
50. Loading coffee for shipment - Las Nubes. 4466
51. Mazatenango. 4423
52. Site of an ancient temple of the Aztecs - Naranja [misidentification by Muybridge; according to Luis Luján, the correct identification is "Finca Naranjo, cerca de la Ciudad de Guat."]. 4358
53. Bridge across the Ocosito. 4416
54. Falls at Palín. 4308
55. Quezaltenango. 4402
56. Quezaltenango. 4406
57. Quezaltenango - from the Volcán. 4408
58. Laundry at Quezaltenango. 4410
Box 3
(Guatemala, continued)
59. Retalhuleu. 4413
60. Retalhuleu. 4414
61. Cocoa Palm - Retalhuleu [Muybridge erred. This tree is actually a coconut palm]. 4415
62. Río Mazatenango. 4419
63. Río Mazatenango. 4421
64. Río Mazatenango. 4422
65. Río Mazatenango. 4424
66. Pine Hacienda at San Felipe. 4430
67. Coffee plantation - San Felipe. 4465
68. A roadside scene - San Isidro. 4431
69. Coffee plantation - San Isidro. 4432
70. Coffee plantation - San Isidro. 4455
71. Bringing in the day's coffee picking - San Isidro. 4457
72. Coffee pickers at their ablutions - San Isidro. 4462
73. Coffee plantation - San Isidro. 4463
74. Coffee plantation - San Isidro. 4464
75. Coffee carts at San José de Guatemala. 4467
76. Cactus plantation for cochineal - San Mateo. 4376
77. Indians of Santa María de Jesús. 4329
78. Indian Church - Santa María. 4377
79. Weeding and protecting yung coffee plants from sun - Santa María. 4450
80. Cargadores from Sololá. 4392
81. Totonicapán. 4401
82. Volcán de Agua and City of Antigua. 4361
83. Summit of Volcán Agua. 4382
84. Volcán de Agua - The Crater. 4383
85. Volcanes de Fuego y Acatenango. 4384
86. Volcán Quezaltenango. 4409
87. Volcán Zunil - from Las Nubes. 4447
(Mexico)
88. Acapulco. 4476
89. Mazatlán. 4478
(Nicaragua)
90. Aspinwall (Colón). 4278
91. Aspinwall (Colón). 4279
92. Corinto. (2 copies) 4293
Box 4
(Panama)
93. Bay of Panama. (2 copies) 4219
94. Moonlight on Panama Bay. (2 copies) 4269
95. Bay of Panama. 4270
96. Bay of Panama. 4276
97. Las Monjas. 4237 (2 copies)
98. Las Monjas. 4265
99. Panama City. 4224
100. Panama City. 4226
101. Panama City. 4231
102. Cabildo - Panama City. 4254
103. Plaza Mayor - Panama City. (2 copies) 4251
104. San Miguel. 4239
105. Santa Ana. 4244
106. Santo Dominica (Santo Domingo?). 4234
107. Santo Dominica. (2 copies) 4235
108. Santo Dominica. (3 copies) 4236
(Incompletely identified)
109. (probably Panama Railroad). 4221
110. Panama - La Merced(?). 4232
111. Public laundry, Panama. (2 copies) 4261
112. Stone bridge, Panama(?). 4267
113. Old road to Porto Bello, Panama. 4268
114. Group of men on an outdoor expedition, many carrying guns. 4289
115. Iglesia La Unión, La Unión, El Salvador, oxcart in front of church ruin. (2 copies) 4297
116. Río Mazatenango, Guatemala(?) 4420
117. A full-grown coffee tree. 4452
118. Coastal scene with boat and rocks. 4482
119. Surface with writing. unnumbered
Box 5
Slides, notes, photocopies
