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Louis De Planque family
Photograph shows a family portrait of Louis and Eugenia De Planque and their daughter
Louis de Planque Brownsville - Texas 1871 - Dressed in Mexican dress all silver trimmings.
This portrait of photographer Louis de Planque may have been taken by his wife, Eugenia de Planque. In this studio view, de Planque holds a sombrero and wears a Mexican charro jacket made of jaguar skin. Source: Jerry Thompson and Lawrence T. Jones III, Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2004), 12.Verso: [handwritten in pencil] Louis De Planque Brownsville - Texas 1871 - Dressed in Mexican dress all silver trimmings. [stamped imprint] Louis de Planque, Artista y fotografo, 62 Calle de Abasolo, Matamoros, Mexico
[Louis de Planque's Gallery, Matamoros, Mexico]
Louis de Planque had galleries on both sides of the Rio Grande at Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico. A prolific and important photographer, this view shows his Matamoros gallery on Abasolo Street on January 2, 1867, after a rare snowfall. Note the camera-shaped sign on the gallery roof. Source: Jerry Thompson and Lawrence T. Jones III, Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2004), 12.Verso: [handwritten in pencil] DePlanque's Gallery in Matamoros, Mexico [stamped imprint] Louis de Planque & Co's., Photographic Galleries, Brownsville, Texas, Elizabeth Street, Matamoros, Mexico, Calle de Abasolo
Louis De Planque
Photograph shows photographer Louis De Planque in a studio portrait.Photographer's imprint: ''H. Moehring San Antonio Tex.'
[Levee Street, Brownsville, Texas]
''This Brownsville view of Levee Street looks up the Rio Grande and shows the old steamboat landing and ferry crossing, ca. 1864-1865. Carte de visite attributed to Louis de Planque.'' [Jerry Thompson and Lawrence T. Jones III, Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2004), 23.]Attributed to: de Planque, Louis (Carl Louis), 1837-1898. Verso: [handwritten] Levee Street Brownsville Texas ca. 1865-66 by Louis de Planque
[Water Carrier]
''Louis de Planque was fascinated with street-vending water carriers, and he photographed them on numerous occasions as they pulled their rolling water-filled barrels down the streets of Matamoros and Brownsville. This view was taken in Matamoros. Carte de visite by Louis de Planque, ca. 1865.'' [Jerry Thompson and Lawrence T. Jones III, Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2004), 21.]Attributed to: de Planque, Louis (Carl Louis), 1837-1898. Verso: [handwritten] Water carrier Mexico or Texas
[Man and Horse, Matamoros, Mexico]
Image of a man holding the harness of a light-colored stallion, outside of a livery stable. ''An astute observer of nature, Louis de Planque photographed this well-groomed stallion outside a Matamoros livery stable. Carte de visite by Louis de Planque, ca. 1865.'' [Jerry Thompson and Lawrence T. Jones III, Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2004), 21.]Attributed to: de Planque, Louis (Carl Louis), 1837-1898. Verso: [handwritten] Matamoros, Mexico
[Woman and Two Children, All Dressed Alike]
Recto: [imprinted] Louis de Planque., Victoria
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