Description
Manuel Photo, Bogota, portrait of comic characters from the Santa Maria. Silver photographic print, signature of the photographer in the negative and stamp on the back "Manuel Photo", autographed letters dated 1948 from the artists photographed on the print, annotations on the back mentioning in Spanish that it is about the comic characters of the Santa Maria, who left with Fidel Castro after the April riots, 1948, dimensions 18,7 x 23,5 cm, traces of handling and crease in the lower left corner. Curious document of the period, relating the participation of Fidel Castro in the April 1948 uprising. Indeed, that year there were riots in Bogota following the assassination of the presidential candidate of Colombia, Jorge Eliécer Gaitan. These riots resulted in 3,000 deaths. Another silver photographic print showing a character in Argentine "gauchos" outfit, autograph sending dated 1931, size 21,5 x 12,5 cm, paper torn without missing on the left part.
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Manuel Photo, Bogota, portrait of comic characters from the Santa Maria. Silver photographic print, signature of the photographer in the negative and stamp on the back "Manuel Photo", autographed letters dated 1948 from the artists photographed on the print, annotations on the back mentioning in Spanish that it is about the comic characters of the Santa Maria, who left with Fidel Castro after the April riots, 1948, dimensions 18,7 x 23,5 cm, traces of handling and crease in the lower left corner. Curious document of the period, relating the participation of Fidel Castro in the April 1948 uprising. Indeed, that year there were riots in Bogota following the assassination of the presidential candidate of Colombia, Jorge Eliécer Gaitan. These riots resulted in 3,000 deaths. Another silver photographic print showing a character in Argentine "gauchos" outfit, autograph sending dated 1931, size 21,5 x 12,5 cm, paper torn without missing on the left part.
