Coffee Planters' Residence, San Felipe
Eadweard J. Muybridge
American, born England. 1830–1904
1875
An albumen silver print in which Eadweard Muybridge records the coffee planters’ residence at San Felipe, presenting a calm, documentary portrait of the planter household and the workers who kept the plantation running.
You first notice the broad, sunlit courtyard leading to low thatched houses under towering trees, with small groups of figures — seated at a table, standing on verandas, and working over long drying areas — dispersed across the scene like moments captured from everyday life.
This 1875 photograph sits within nineteenth‑century documentary and colonial photography, making visible the social order and labor of coffee production while showing the compositional clarity and observational distance that anticipated Muybridge’s later systematic studies.
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
5 7/16 × 9 3/16" (13.8 × 23.3 cm)
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Credit
Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Accession
182.1964.108
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