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Photo, Print, Drawing S. John Del Rey Mining Company: Morro Velho.

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Title

  • S. John Del Rey Mining Company: Morro Velho.

Summary

  • The Thereza Christina Maria collection is composed of 21,742 photos assembled by Emperor Pedro II (1825-91) throughout his life and donated by him to the National Library of Brazil. The collection covers a wide variety of subjects. It documents the achievements of Brazil and Brazilians in the 19th century and also includes many photographs of Europe, Africa, and North America. The São João Del Rei mine was a British-owned mine in the Brazilian gold mining province of Minas Gerais. The mine, established in 1834, dominated the economic, social, and political life of the neighboring town of Novo Lima. The company imported 150 British families to Brazil to work for the company. The mine was photographed by Augusto Riedel during an expedition into the interior of Brazil with the son-in-law of Emperor Pedro II, Luis Augusto, Duke of Saxe.

Names

  • Riedel, Augusto, 1836-1877? Photographer.

Created / Published

  • Nova Lima, Brazil : [publisher not identified], [1868 to 1869]

Headings

  • -  Brazil--Minas Gerais--Nova Lima
  • -  1868 to 1869
  • -  Gold mines and mining
  • -  Memory of the World
  • -  Mining corporations

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photo : albumen paper, black and white ; 21.7 x 27.2 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: National Library of Brazil.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Thereza Christina Maria Collection

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669614

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Riedel, Augusto, ? Photographer. S. John Del Rey Mining Company: Morro Velho. Nova Lima Minas Gerais Brazil, 1868. [Nova Lima, Brazil: publisher not identified, to 1869] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669614/.

APA citation style:

Riedel, A. (1868) S. John Del Rey Mining Company: Morro Velho. Nova Lima Minas Gerais Brazil, 1868. [Nova Lima, Brazil: publisher not identified, to 1869] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669614/.

MLA citation style:

Riedel, Augusto, ? Photographer. S. John Del Rey Mining Company: Morro Velho. [Nova Lima, Brazil: publisher not identified, to 1869] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021669614/>.