Photo, Print, Drawing Praça da Confluência Park and Residence of the Barão de Mauá. Passeio da Praça da Confluência e residencia do Barão de Mauá
About this Item
Title
- Praça da Confluência Park and Residence of the Barão de Mauá.
Other Title
- Passeio da Praça da Confluência e residencia do Barão de Mauá
Summary
- The Thereza Christina Maria collection is composed of 21,742 photos assembled by Emperor Pedro II (1825-91) throughout his life and donated by him to the National Library of Brazil. The collection covers a wide variety of subjects. It documents the achievements of Brazil and Brazilians in the 19th century and also includes many photographs of Europe, Africa, and North America. The neoclassical residence of the Barão de Mauá stands at the beginning of Rio Branco Avenue in Petrópolis. Irineu Evangelista de Souza, the Barão de Mauá (1813-89), purchased it in 1852 as a summer residence. De Souza, who was at one point the richest man in Brazil, built the first Brazilian railroad and was instrumental in establishing the country's banks. This photograph is one of a series taken in the late 1860s by Pedro Hees showing the important sites of Petrópolis, a popular summer holiday spot for Brazil's wealthy, located in the hills outside Rio de Janeiro.
Names
- Hees, Pedro, 1841-1880 Photographer.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1860 to 1870]
Headings
- - Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--Petrópolis
- - 1860 to 1870
- - Casa do Barão de Mauá (Petropolis, Brazil)
- - Memory of the World
- - Parks
- - Praça da Confluência (Petropolis, Brazil)
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 1 photograph : albumin paper, black and white : 19.9 x 24.9 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: National Library of Brazil.
- - Content in Portuguese.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Views of Petrópolis
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021669358
Online Format
- compressed data
- image