Colección Gob. Pedro Godoy - Vistas de la Tierra del Fuego [c 1895 ]

This collection is composed of one album that contains 45 photographs taken circa 1895 -five of them of indigenous people- and collected by Pedro Godoy, Governor of Territorio Nacional de Tierra del Fuego at that time.

These photographs illustrate the landscape, buildings, indigenous peoples and industrial work of Tierra del Fuego by the end of nineteenth century. Considering that Godoy created this album during his governance period it is possible to think that he had propagandistic purposes in order to attract new inhabitants to Tierra del Fuego.

There is no internal or external classification system of the photographs that composes the album. On some of the cardboards where the photographs are mounted numerical inscriptions can be seen, but this numbers are non correlative and have no coherence between them, for this reason a correlative number was given to the photographs and, in order to arrange this collection EAP Projects Guidelines were consulted.