Bookmark this page or copy and paste URL to Email message Eduardo Cruz Photograph Collection, circa 1881-1891, undatedMS 247
Biographical NoteA 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. Scope and Content NoteStudio 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). ArrangementThis collection is organized into one seriesRestrictionsRestrictionsThere are no restrictions on this collection. CopyrightIt is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright. Access TermsPersonal Name(s) Cruz, Eduardo--Portraits Hamilton, Tomas K., Photographer Planque, Louis de, Photographer Geographic Name(s) Laredo (Tex.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works Subject(s) Mexican-Americans--Texas--Laredo--19th century--Portraits Portrait photography--Texas Administrative InformationCredit LineEduardo Cruz photograph collection (MS 247). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries. Container List
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