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Group of Fifty -seven Photographs of Mexico along the Line of the Mexican Railway, Largely Taken by Thomas J. Cockrell, Photographer of Laredo Texas, circa 1887-1888, Includes Rare Images of Black Seminoles, Mascogo and Kickapoo Individuals

Group of Fifty -seven Photographs of Mexico along the Line of the Mexican Railway, Largely Taken by Thomas J. Cockrell, Photographer of Laredo Texas, circa 1887-1888, Includes Rare Images of Black Seminoles, Mascogo and Kickapoo Individuals by Cockrell, Thomas J.,

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Group of Fifty -seven Photographs of Mexico along the Line of the Mexican Railway, Largely Taken by Thomas J. Cockrell, Photographer of Laredo Texas, circa 1887-1888, Includes Rare Images of Black Seminoles, Mascogo and Kickapoo Individuals
Author
Cockrell, Thomas J.,
Seller
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
Fifty-seven albumen views, mounted on both sides of 13 quarto cardstock mounts. The images measure between 11.4 x 18.7 cm and 11 x 16 cm. Several of the images are captioned in ink underneath the photographs, others are captioned on the negative, the rest are unidentified. The images consist of views in Mexico along the line of the Mexican Railway, Native Americans including Mascogos, and members of the Kickapoo Nation, then resident in El nacienmento, Muzquiz Municipality, Mexico, including an image of James James, a Mascogo, a formerly enslaved man, a Black Seminole, Mexicans, Mexican cattlemen, and several more informal shots likely of Cockrell and the party he was traveling with, these images include candid photographs of camping, traveling in wagons, et cetera. The bulk of the images are in good condition with strong contrast, the informal shots are somewhat faded and with low contrast. The present collection was likely taken by Thomas Cockrell on an 1887 trip into Mexico to photograph views along the Mexican International Railway. James James, the formerly enslaved man, native of South Carolina, then living in Santa Rosa, Mexico, whose image appears in the collection, was featured in several newspaper stories that appeared in America in 1887. James claimed to be 135 years old, and the published accounts include his recollections of slavery in South Carolina, memories of the termination of the Revolutionary War, etc. James was, in fact, a Black Seminole who had escaped slavery and fled to Mexico. Cockrell's viewbook containing several of the images in this collection was published in 1888, in Laredo. The identified images include: Mexican Water Works, Mexican Barrillero, Mexican Moranas, James James 135 Years Old Santa Rosa Mexico. Cathedral, Paso del Norte, Mexico, three images of Bull fights, in Saltillo, Mexico, Chihuahua, Mexico, Quinta de Don Pae Lunce, Monterey, Mex., two images of Pedra Negras, Mex., Scene near Cleotes, Ranch, Mex., Plaza, Santa Rosa, Mexico, Giant Cactus, Topo Chico, Mexico, Plaza San Francisco de Assis, Saltillo, Mex., Sabinas River, Sabinas Bridge, "The Shanty" Sabinas. The album includes images of members of the Kickapoo Nation in El nacienmento, Mexico. There are also several images of Mascogo people, descendants of Black Seminoles who escaped slavery in the United States and settled in El nacienmento, Muzquiz, Mexico, one of whom was a circus performer. Little is known about Thomas Cockrell, photographer from Laredo, he is known to have executed a series of photographs which includes views of south Texas and Monterrey, Mexico and along the Mexican Central Railway and Mexican National Railway. He is found in the Texas State Gazeteer1 in 1890-1891, and 1892. He published three viewbooks, dating from 1888 through early 1890s. They were all in the same format, consisting of 12 leaves, all illustrations. They are entitled: The Mexican International Railway Views: Series No. 1, Laredo: 1888; The Mexican National Railway Views, New York: Albertype Company, c. 1890s; and Mexican Typical Views, c. 1890s. The DeGolyer Library has only 7 of Cockrell's mounted views, per their website: only one of which "Mexican Barrillero" is found in the present collection. https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/mex/search/searchterm/Cockrell%2C%20Thos.%20J.%20(Thomas%20J.)/field/creato/mode/exact/conn/and 1. Haynes, David, Catching Shadows A Directory of Nineteenth-Century Texas Photographers Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1993, p. 25
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Self-Portrait in Water by Sheffield, Ellen, book artist

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Self-Portrait in Water
Author
Sheffield, Ellen, book artist
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
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Gambier, OH: Ellen Sheffield, 2024. Softcover. Fine. Softcover. Number 1 of 4 copies signed and numbered by the book artist. Ellen writes about her book arts: "As a visual artist, a maker, and a noticer of surfaces, images, words and spaces, one of my affinities is for fossil records such as dictionaries and encyclopedias where words are alphabetized, indexed, and otherwise removed from traditional narrative structures. As noted in a recent feature article on artists' archives, if you look up "abacus," "alligator," or "akimbo" in an old Webster's dictionary, you will see my college faculty advisor's illustrations, "providing a visual definition of those words." Professor Anita Rogoff deepened my text/image obsession. Many of my artist's books are rooted in these early experiences with wordplay and disrupted narrative. They are investigations of letterform perception, of reading comprehension, and of giving tangible form to the poet's quiet voice. By physically dismantling the book structure and recombining its parts (spine, page, table of contents, etc.), meaning is reframed through layered intersections of art, typography, and page design. This new configuration then become the larger field or "page" through which context is revealed or veiled, and our understanding of words and the reading process is altered." She describes this intriguing work: " 'Language is not a tool it is something we swim in' - Donnel Stern. In a shaped accordion cover with three pamphlet stitched inserts of Rives BFK paper with watercolor, gouache, graphite, pastel, acetone transfers, cliché verre and inkjet printing. My three poems, printed in Palatino, chronicle experiences with language about color as part of a multi-racial family. The book unfolds in a visual score structure with typographic fragment interludes and patterns stenciled from vintage player piano rolls." In fine condition. ARTB51526.

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