urn:taro:utexas.blac.00166 Robert Steinfeldt Photograph Collection, c.1912-1922 Benson Latin American Collection University of Texas Libraries, 2006 Finding aid encoded by Christian Kelleher, CA, April 2006Finding aid written inEnglish. Descriptive Summary Steinfeldt, Robert Robert Steinfeldt Photograph Collection c.1912-1922 English 1988-19 352928984 95 photographic prints and 7 postcards Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin 95 photographs and seven postcards, most relating to railroad construction and banana plantations in Honduras. Biographical Sketch

Robert Steinfeldt studied civil engineering at Texas A&M University and was in the Navy during World War I. He worked for United Fruit Co. in Honduras where he built railroads. In the 1920s he left Honduras for Los Angeles, California, where he worked for the city and county.

 Scope and Contents Note

Series I, Brazil, contains fourteen undated black-and-white photographs taken by Steinfeldt while in Brazil. The photographs are mounted on pages from a photo album.

Series II, Honduras (1921-1922), contains 77 black-and-white photographs taken by Steinfeldt, relating to railroad construction and banana plantations in Honduras. These photographs are mounted on pages removed from a photo album.

Series III, Mexico, contains four prints of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico in the early 1900s. Also included in this series are seven postcards, five of which are of an unknown location.

 Access Restrictions

Unrestricted.

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Standard copyright restrictions apply.

 Preferred Citation

Cite as: Robert Steinfeldt Photograph Collection, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin.

 Index Terms

The Robert Steinfeldt Photograph Collection is classified under the following Subject Headings in the University of Texas Libraries catalog:

Steinfeldt, Robert--Archives United Fruit Company--History--Photographs Banana trade--Honduras--History--Photographs Brazil--Photographs Honduras--Photographs Mexico--Photographs Box and Folder Inventory I. Brazil, n.d. 1111. Pará, Brazil - Entrance to St. Isabel Cemetery 112. Pará, Brazil - A Pará Parlor 1222. At Point Pinheiro - 10 miles below Pará, the Coney Island of Pará (No. 48) 123. Largo da Trinidade - The Trinity is one of the [ve?] churches (No. 76) 1324. Pará, Brazil - Estrada das Jurunas (No. 40) 125. View of another square in Nazareth 126. Another view of Palms 1427. Peace Monument with Palaces in the background 128. Entrance to Bogue 129. Pará, Brazil - Na Estrada das Jurunas, Suburban adobe houses, photo by P.E. Meyer & Co. (No. 47) 1532. Suburban scene - see large tree to right, photo by P.E. Meyer & Co. 133. Pará, Largo de Independencia - Barracks on left now used as a drill ground (No. 17) 1636. Rua Conselheiro João Alfredo - looking west toward Cathedral 137. Cathedral - Very old and with very rich interior (No. 14) II. Honduras, 1921-1922 171. At Farallones, Honduras, C.A. - A beauty spot, 1921 12. Along the Beach with John Richardson, 1921 13. A fill thru tropical vegetation, 1921 14. Truxillo R.R. on the Carribean Sea, 1921 15. A Carrib Village, Spanish Honduras, 1922 16. A coconut grave or CoCal, Spanish Honduras, 1922 17. Detail of wharf construction, 1921 188. Scene on the Caribbean at Farallones, The Point, 1921 19. The Lidgerwood and Engine "C", 1921 110. Plowing off cars for fill, 1921 111. [?] on the mountain side a good swimming pool, Trujillo, S.H., April 16, 1922 112. Roughnecks, Trujillo, S.H., 1921 113. Puerto Castilla, S.H. Building 127, My Home for 6 1/2 months "Mad House," 1921 114. Puerto Castilla, S.H., MrS, Machine ship Commissary Labor camp and beach, n.d. 1915. My room #20 in House #127 in rear upstairs 116. Smith drinking the water of a green coconut [?] meat is [?] of cool water, n.d. 117. Looking down one of the lanes on Rincon [?], 1921 118. Setting grades for dredge fill-Dredge in background, Puerto Castilla, June 1921 119. Motor car #34, Sparks, Steinfeldt, Motor Boy, Hodges at Piedra Blanco Calling Station, 1921 120. Dredge cutting through main line R.R., no bridge replacement, June 1921 121. Steinfeldt-[?] Williams, "El Commandante," Neal Johnson, Kearnay Sp[?], 1921 122. Farallones, S.H.-Baldwin, Sparks, Johnson, Steinnfeldt, [?], n.d. 11023. At the Station, Puerta Castilla, Rincon, 1921 124. S.H. The Shoreline, Rincon, 1921 125. Power, Light, and Ice Plant at Puerta Casilla, Power Plant Under Construction, Rincon, n.d. 126. Machine Shop, Rincon, n.d. 127. Puerta Castilla, Dredge Morgan, 1922 128. Engine #8 and MrS Building, Banana Train, Rincon, 1921 129. Puerta Castilla, Part of the Fill, 1922 130. Puerta Castilla, The Club Room in this End, Niess Hall, Rincon, 1921 131. Dredge in Canal, Dredge in Operation, Rincon, n.d. 132. Yacht Victor at anchor, [?] from Tela in it, Dredge at old wharf, n.d. 11133. Corner of office building Tela RR, 1921 134. "Slim" Powell-Johle(hoghead) at Tela, SS Zapata at wharf, SS Ellis in distance and one other SS. Loading bananas, June 1921 135. Office building, Tela RR, 1921 136. Hospital, Tela RR, 1921 11237. Hubert, [?], Bob Steinfeldt, Smith, Chatham-Sandfill in Puerta Castilla S.H., June 1921 138. "Honduranian Navy" Tela S.H., 1921 139. Wharf at Tela, S.H., 1921 140. "Manaca Shack," n.d. 141. A few bananas, 1921 142. Steinfeldt and Chatham in "CoCal" Puerta Castilla, S.H., 1921 143. Wreck of Engine #1 at Farallones Spanish Honduras, Pile driver and cars at bottom, May 15, 1921 144. CoCal Rincon S.H.-Chatham is the man, June 15, 1921 145. Wreck of Engine #1 at Farallones Spanish Honduras, Pile driver and cars at bottom, May 15, 1921 146. Wreck of Engine #1 at Farallones Spanish Honduras, Pile driver and cars at bottom, May 15, 1921 147. Wreck of Engine #1 at Farallones Spanish Honduras, Pile driver and cars at bottom, May 15, 1921 148. Wreck of Engine #1 at Farallones Spanish Honduras, Pile driver and cars at bottom, May 15, 1921 149. Along the Farallones and Caribbean Sea, S.H., May 15, 1921 11350. Trujillo, S.H. Carrib Maskers welcome the New Year with a dance "note the shell chains around the knees," January 1, 1922 151. The Park in Trujillo, S.H., 1921 152. The Park in Trujillo, S.H., 1921 153. Street Scene Truxillo, Looking towards Crystallis Trujillo, S.H., 1922 154. Rear view, Truxillo Church, View across from the "French Man's," 1922 155. Old Spanish Church at Truxillo, Oldest church in Honduras, Built in 1870, 1922 11456. Truxillo from the sea, Mountains 4000 ft high, 1922 157. Street scene Truxillo, Looking toward Truxillo building and the railroad, 1921 158. "Cuartel" Truxillo, Old Spanish Fort, 1922 159. UNIA, ACL, Parade Truxillo, Negro Improvement Association Parade. Jail to the left, 1921 160. Corocito, car loading with Pickles, 1922 161. Corocito, Backing them out on mules, Muleman, G.P. Hunnicutt, R.H. Steinfeldt, 1922 162. Corocito, G.P.H. and the Pickles, 1922 163. A stem on the mask, 1922 164. Corocito Farm, Tramming bananas, 1922 165. Corocito, The Mainline through bananas, 1922 11566. Piedra Blanca, Bananas in a Wind, 1921 167. Puerta Castilla, Spanish Honduras, The Hospital, 1922 168. Puerta Castilla, Pickles!! "The first 6000," March 1921 169. San Pedro, Spanish Honduras, San Pedro River Bridge, 1922 170. Farallones, S.H. MC. 82 and Winslow's House, June 1922 171. Corocito Junction, Engine #40 with the train, Harvey Waite and Power [?] (Hoghead), 1922 172. Piedra Blana, 1921 173. G.P. Hunnicutt on Bridge at Farallones, 192? 174. Corocito, Sambo Indians from Nicaragua, February, 1922 175. Corocito, Mabel Woods, Mrs Ordoñez, Harvey Faust, Mrs Pierson, Mrs Riplinger, Mr E.C. Wentworth, Mr N. Riplinger, Mr Marshall, Rit S, January 1, 1922 11676. Manaca Shack, Rincon, n.d. 177. At Corocito Junction on the T.R.R., n.d. III. Mexico, 1912, n.d. 1Photographs, n.d. 1176. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, H. Ayuntamiento de 1886-1887, n.d. 17. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Catedral Metropolitana de Nuestra Señora de Monterrey, n.d. 18. Unknown, n.d. 19. Unknown, n.d. 1Postcards, 1912, n.d. 118Cárdenas, San Luis Potosí, n.d. 119Red Cross, Madero's Camp, photograph by D.W. Hoffman, 1912 120Unknown, n.d. 11. Market Plaza 12. Telegraph Office 13. M. Guerra Store 14. M. Guerra Store 15. Internacional, Sandoval Fot.