MS 247
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: | Cruz, Eduardo, 1860-1939 |
| Collection Name: | Eduardo Cruz Photograph Collection, |
| Inclusive Dates: | circa 1881-1891, |
| Physical Description: | .25 linear feet |
| Abstract: | Studio portraits, mostly cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards, of Eduardo Cruz and other young men and women, probably his friends and classmates. Most are identified by name and were taken by professional photographers in the Laredo, Texas area, ca. 1881-1891. |
| Collection Number: | MS 247 |
| Language: | Materials in English |
| Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ |
A dry goods merchant, Eduardo Cruz was born in 1860 in Nuevo Leon, Mexico and immigrated to Laredo, Texas in 1881. He was married to Margarata Vidaurri, owned a dry goods store, and died in Laredo in 1939.
Studio portraits, chiefly cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards, of Eduardo Cruz and friends, in the Laredo, Texas area, ca.1881-1891. The photographs are inscribed, in Spanish, with greetings to Eduardo from the subject. Surnames include Garza, Garcia, Joseph, Seguin, Schrader, Perez, Olvera, Quintana, Chapa, Pena, Salinas, Trevino, Quiroz, and Zaragoza. Photographers from Laredo are Tomas K. Hamilton, J. Villareal, and Stephenson. Other photographers are Louis de Planque (Corpus Christi), M. Rodriguez Perez (Eagle Pass), and Jose R. Mendez (Matamoros, Mexico).
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Eduardo Cruz photograph collection (MS 247). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
| Series I: Photographs, circa 1881-1891, undated | |||||||||||
| This series is arranged topically. | |||||||||||
| box | folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Portraits--Eduardo Cruz, cartes-de-visite, 1883-1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Portraits--Eduardo Cruz, cabinet cards, 1886, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Group portraits with Eduardo Cruz, ca. 1880s, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Portraits--Women, 1885-1886, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Portraits--Men, Identified, A-L, 1882-1883, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Portraits--Men, Identified, M-R, 1881-1891, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Portraits--Men, Identified, S-Z, 1881-1887, undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Group portraits--Men, 1882-1883 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Portraits--Men, unidentified undated | |||||||||