urn:taro:utexas.blac.00006 Paul A. Bartlett: An Inventory of his Drawings and Photographs of Mexican Haciendas at the Benson Latin American Collection University of Texas at Austin 11/1994 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, July 2001. Finding aid written in English. July 30, 2002 Edited with XMetaL3 by Bob Stewart according to instructions in Editing TARO EAD Finding Aids with XMetaL. Tue Jul 22 14:57:47 CDT 2003 urn:taro:utexas.blac.00006 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Descriptive Summary Bartlett, Paul Alexander. Paul A. Bartlett Drawings and Photographs of Mexican Haciendas 1940-1973 31795814 903 photographs, 294 drawings, 279 negatives, and 69 slides. Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries,The University of Texas at Austin Pen-and-ink drawings, photographs, slides, and negatives of 300 Mexican colonial hacienda buildings (many of which no longer exist) produced by artist Paul Alexander Bartlett from 1940 to 1973. Biographical Note

Artist and author. Born July 13, 1909 in Moberly, Missouri; died April 19, 1990. Graduate of Oberlin College. Studied art at the University of Arizona, the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City, and the Universidad de Guadalajara. Bartlett's lifework focused on the haciendas of Mexico. Over a period of several decades he visited hundreds of haciendas throughout Mexico, photographing and drawing their buildings and decorative objects. Bartlett's published works include The Haciendas of Mexico: an artist's record; the novels When the Owl Cries and Adiós mi México; and many short stories.

 Scope and Contents Note

Pen-and-ink drawings, photographs, slides, and negatives of Mexican colonial hacienda buildings. The images document architectural forms and details of approximately 300 haciendas, many of which no longer exist. Included are depictions of residences, chapels, furniture, statuary, and other features of the haciendas; also portrayed are things representative of hacienda operations, such as machinery, farm implements, barns, and other structures and objects. The following states (and haciendas) are covered extensively in the collection: Campeche (Castamay), Guanajuato (Puerto de Nieto), Hidalgo, Jalisco, Oaxaca (Blanca, San Felipe, Tenache), Puebla, Yucatán. Photographs and slides were made after 1941 during Bartlett's extensive travels in Mexico. An exception is a group of 13 photographs, given to Bartlett in 1954 by Ricardo Lancaster-Jones, depicting the haciendas El Cortijo (Colima) and Santa Cruz (Jalisco) from 1880 to 1940. The collection includes negatives for fewer than one-third of the photographs. Drawings were completed by 1973.

 Preferred Citation

Paul A. Bartlett Drawings and Photographs of Mexican Haciendas, 1940-1973, Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin.

 Acquisitions Information

The Paul A. Bartlett Drawings and Photographs of Mexican Haciendas were purchased by the Benson Latin American Collection from Mr. Bartlett in 1973; additional materials were purchased from him in 1975.

Processing Information

The collection was described by the Benson's Mexican Archives Project in August 1994.

Prepared by the Mexican Archives Project, November 1994.

Publications

The following book was based on the collection:

Bartlett, Paul Alexander. The haciendas of Mexico: an artist's record. Niwot, CO : University Press of Colorado, 1990. Index Terms Subjects Haciendas--Mexico--Views. Architecture--Mexico--Views. Other Authors Lancaster-Jones, Ricardo. Document Types Drawings Photographs Slides (Photographs) Negatives Series and Container List

The Paul A. Bartlett drawings and photographs of Mexican haciendas are organized into two series: I. Drawings, and II. Photographic Material. The drawings are further divided into two groups adn arranged numerically; the bulk of the photographic material is arranged alphabetically by state and thereunder by hacienda name.

 I. Drawings 1. Group 1, items 1-221. Filing Unit #1-35 1 #36-70 2 #71-110 3 #111-148 4 #149-193 5 #194-208; #210-221 6 2. Group 2, items 1-72. #1-6; #8-16; #18-35 7 #36-69; #71-72 8 II. Photographic Material 1. Prints and slides Seven 8 × 10 prints, 69 slides, one box of small prints, 13 photographs.

Prints and slides representing locations in Campeche to Zacatecas, and 13 photographs given to Bartlett by Ricardo Lancaster-Jones in 1954. The latter depict the haciendas El Cortijo (Colima) and Santa Cruza (Jalisco) from 1880 to 1940.

 8 x 10 prints 9 1 Slides 9 2 Lancaster-Jones photos 9 3 Small prints: Campeche-Zacatecas 10 2. Negatives.

Items 1-143 depict Baja California through Jalisco; items 144-274 represent Mexico state through Zacatecas.

 PB #1-143: Baja California - Jalisco 11 PB #144-274: Mexico (state) - Zacatecas 12