Brazil explained in 100 images (part 2)
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Enjoy this tour of 150 years of Brazilian history through photography and other iconography. Ten Fridays, ten pictures each. You can read the other chapters here: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 and Part 10.
Last image of the imperial family, in 1889, just before their exile in Paris. Photo by Otto Haes.
Italian immigrants arriving in São Paulo in 1890. Today, 60% of all paulistanos descend at least partially from Italians.
Padre Cícero, priest, landowner and political leader of Juazeiro, in the state of Ceará, circa 1891. Padim Ciço, as he is also known, has a huge following even today, despite his poor relationship with the Vatican.
Revolta da Armada/ Navy Revolt in 1894. A mutiny against president Floriano Peixoto. Image by Juan Gutierrez
Survivors of the massacre of Canudos, a rebellious community in Bahia state defeated by the federal troops in 1897. The best report about this episode was written by writer Euclides da Cunha, that wrote "Os Sertões", considered one of the best books ever published in the country.
Photo by Marc Ferrez, the main Brazilian photographer in the 19th century. This image was probably taken in Rio in the last years of the century.
Eduardo Ribeiro avenue, in Manaus. Circa 1900. It displays all the riches produced during the Rubber Cycle, when the Amazon became, for a short while, Brazil's Little Paris.
Photo montage made in 1901 by Valerio Rodrigues Vieira. Note that all the individuals in this image, including the pictures on the wall and the statue, portrait the author.
Epidemiologist Oswaldo Cruz, arguably the main promoter of vaccination and the adoption of hygienic procedures in the country. Circa early 20th century.
A 1905 high quality counterfeit banknote of 200 thousand réis, the currency at the time.
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Regina – I am enjoying the photo essay/history. Nice idea.
Concerning the caption on the Canudos survivors photo: I have read Os Sertões, although I read the English translation. While it is an unusually detailed, first person account of the historicperiod and events, I found the author to be oddly ignorant and racist in his views, even for the time. The first 1/3 of the book is very difficult to get through, it is so dry and weirdly cataloging in nature. It gets better after that.
For the student of Brazil (who may not want to wade into the original text with all its flaws) I highly recommend the somewhat fictionalized version of the same tale/historic event: “The War of the End of the World” by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is an amazing read.
Great comment, Jim! I never read Vargas Llosa’s version, but I heard it is brilliant. Indeed, Euclides is considered a very tough read. Remember he was a journalist at a time where newspaper were read exclusively by lawyers, big instrument of social segregation. I must confess I never had the courage to face his book.
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Thanks! Please follow the link to the other posts of this series. I think you might like them too.