[Man playing guitar, Aguascalientes, Mexico]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Man playing guitar, Aguascalientes, Mexico]
April 15, 1890
Albumen silver print
Image (circular): 9 × 9 cm (3 9/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
Paper: 12.4 × 10 cm (4 7/8 × 3 15/16 in.)
Mount: 13.4 × 10.6 cm (5 1/4 × 4 3/16 in.)
Museum accession
1981.2862.0129
Inscriptions inscribed in black ink on verso, TC: At Agua Caliente Mexico \ April 15, 1890
TextIn 1888, the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company introduced the Kodak No. 1, a camera that revolutionized the practice of photography. Conceived by George Eastman as way to jettison cumbersome equipment and complicated technical maneuvers, the Kodak required the would-be photographer to follow three simple steps: “1. Pull the String. 2. Turn the Key. 3. Press the Button.” The Kodak sparked a national craze; within a year, Eastman’s company was struggling to satisfy market demands. The Kodak No. 2 appeared in 1889, and in the spring of the following year a family took theirs on a vacation to Mexico.
