Eleanor Barton Collection
The Eleanor Barton Collection contains 61 stereograph views, collected by Eleanor Barton, of city, country, agricultural and volcanic scenes in Mexico, South America, Central America and the West Indies; includes scenes of the Panama Canal, Spanish missions in California, the southwest United States, and individual photographs of Chihuahua cathedral by F. Parker and Santa Barbara mission by Taber. A stereograph viewer is included in the collection.
Collection Inventory
STEREOGRAPHS
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro. [n.d.]
Palm-fringed Rua Viscounte de Itauna and Mangue Canal, Rio de Janeiro. [not before 1914]
Chile
Indians on the Straits of Magellan near Punta Arenas. [n.d.]
Costa Rica
Breadfruit trees in a grove near Puerto Limón. [n.d.]
Harvesting bananas.
Coffee finca, 1902.
Costa Rica's coffee piles whence come her piles of gold, 1902.
Cuba
The "Maine" wreck, from Merrittt wrecking tug "Chief," Havana Harbor, 1898.
El Morro, from the shore, Havana, 1899.
Parade ground, Cabanas Fortress, Havana, 1903.
Dominica
The eccentric growth of cocoa pods, Dominica, British West Indies. [n.d.]
Ecuador
Quito, Capital of Ecuador and center of the equatorial Andes. [n.d.]
Sumptuous wall decorations of gold in an aisle of the church of La Compania, Quito. [n.d.]
How the equatorial sun goes down in glory... Babahoya, Ecuador. [n.d.]
Homes on stilts where the families of laborers live. Cacao plantation, La Clemencia, Ecuador. [n.d.]
How Cacao pods grow. [n.d.]
El Salvador
Tortilla making, 1902.
Guadeloupe
Mighty earthquake fissure. "Lac du Nord," "Soufriere" volcano, 1903.
Martinique
Desolate city of the dead, St. Pierre, 1903.
Grande Anse by the Sea, 1903.
Mexico
A Mexican acequía with bathers and washerwomen, 1890.
Art creation by the Master's hand, Acambarro, 1900. (2 copies)
The sacred shrine on Cholula and "Old Popocatepetl," Cholula, 1900.
From San Francisco cathedral, on the largest Aztec pyramid looking over Cholula, 1901.
Ixtaccihuatl (The White Woman), seen from the sacred mount, Amecameca. [n.d.]
Mexican children at a public well.
Panama
Massive walls of concrete, Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal, 1912.
East center and west walls of upper lock under construction... Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal, 1912.
North end of Gatún Locks, Panama Canal, 1913.
View from below spillway at Gatún Dam, Panama Canal, 1913.
Range light on center wall of locks at Gatún, Panama Canal, 1913.
Water pouring over the Gatún Spillway, the Niagara of the Panama Canal, 1915.
Busy scene on the Panama Canal... Gatún Locks and Gatún Lake... [not before 1914]
Peru
In the heart of the rugged Cordilleras Mountains, the Cofa bridge on the Oroya Railway, Peru. [n.d.]
Puerto Rico
Amidst the charms of Porto Rico--delicious pineapple in the fields of Mayaguez, 1899.
St. Vincent
Wallibou, the strange river of fire, 1903.
Seacoast under "La Soufriere" showing subsided area where Wallibou village formerly stood, 1903.
Soufriere's mammoth crater--volvanic terror of the Island of St. Vincent. [n.d.]
United States
Corridor at Mission, California. [n.d.]
Bells at San Gabriel Mission, California, 1875.
San Gabriel Mission, California, 1875.
San Gabriel Mission, California, 1875.
Interior of San Gabriel Mission, 1875.
Mission San Juan Capistrano, California. [n.d.]
Altar, Mission San Juan. [n.d.]
Mission bells, San Juan Capistrano. [n.d.]
Eloquent testimony... Mission of San Juan Capistrano. [n.d.]
Ruins of the Indian quarters, Mission San Luis Rey, California. [n.d.]
Corridor ruins, Mission San Luis Rey. [n.d.]
Mission San Luis Rey... [n.d.]
Mission San Diego... [n.d.]
A relic [Indian woman] of San Gabriel Mission, California. [n.d.]
Interior, San Fernando Mission, California. [n.d.]
"Dismantled towers and turrets broken!" Cliff Palace in the Mesa Verde, Colorado. [not before 1915]
Indian fur camp on the plains. [n.d.]
In the village of Blackfeet Indians near St. Mary's Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana. [n.d.]
Oldest house in Santa Fe. [n.d.]
San Antonio, Texas, 1883.
Venezuela
The city baker making his daily rounds, Caracas. [n.d.]
1 unidentified and undated stereograph.
PHOTOPRINTS
"Santa Barbara Mission, founded in 1786" Photograph by Taber [n.d.]
"Cathedral, Chihuahua, Mex." Photograph by F. Parker. [n.d.]
