[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album of Mining and Engineering Activities in Peru and Ecuador]

[Various places in South America, 1928. About very good.. Sixty-six original photographs, most 35. x 5.75 inches. Small, oblong folio album, string tied. Photos mounted directly to tan, heavy card stock. Contemporary manuscript captions throughout and small return address label affixed to rear cover. A number of card leaves coming or fully detached. Occasional small corner chips and minor wear to photos. Interesting photo album containing over sixty-five original and vernacular images that document a work trip through Peru and Ecuador, compiled by an American engineer, likely named Breese Rosette of Alhambra, California, per an address label on the rear cover. He evidently traveled on behalf of the Frederick Snare Company, a major U.S. civil engineering and construction firm that was responsible for myriad works in Latin America and major projects in New York such as the Triborough, Whitestone, and Verrazano Narrows Bridges. Rosette went to Snare-owned material sites such as a rock quarry near Callao and a cement plant in Lima, and also visited various project locations where the company was engaged, such as railroad construction sites and mines. In between times, he traveled to major cities such as Lima, Callao, Quito, and Guayaquil, and he also documents his travel to work sites by train and by river boat. In all, a fascinating and well-rounded album showing American industrial and engineering work in 1920s South America.