[Man making rope from fiber]
Photograph
Underwood & Underwood
American, 1880–1931
[Man making rope from fiber]
ca. 1901
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 8 × 7.2 cm (3 1/8 × 2 13/16 in.)
Mount: 8.8 × 17.9 cm (3 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company
1983.1952.0026
Inscriptions recto LC (stamp): Underwood & Underwood. Publishers. \ New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa - Kansas.
recto BR (printed): Native making Rope from the fiber of the Maguey Plant, Monterey, Mexico. \ Copyright 1910 by Underwood & Underwood.
recto RC (stamp): Works and Studios \ Arlington, N.J. Littleton. N.H. Washington. D.C.
verso C (printed): Native making Rope from the fiber of the Maguey Plant, Monterey, Mexico. [caption also translated to French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian]
recto BR (printed): Native making Rope from the fiber of the Maguey Plant, Monterey, Mexico. \ Copyright 1910 by Underwood & Underwood.
recto RC (stamp): Works and Studios \ Arlington, N.J. Littleton. N.H. Washington. D.C.
verso C (printed): Native making Rope from the fiber of the Maguey Plant, Monterey, Mexico. [caption also translated to French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian]
TextIn 1914, University of Chicago anthropologist Frederick Starr (1858–1933) published Mexico and the United States, in which he traced the causes of the Mexican Revolution (1910–20) from the ancient Aztecs, through Spanish colonial rule, and up to the presidency of Porfirio Díaz (1877–80; 1884–1911). For his illustrations, the author drew largely from stereographs like these. US intervention in the revolution, Starr maintained, would inevitably fail given the fundamental cultural difference between the aggressive “Anglo-Saxon” and the easygoing “Spanish-Indian.”
