Alfredo Hamelle (1841-1918) (Gustave Léopold Hamelle, known as) Argentina. Province of Misiones, c. 1880-1900. Memories of the Yguazu cataracts. Argentine Republic. Memories of the Missions. Argentine Republic. Pasadas. Gobernacion. Plaza 9 de Julio. Mercado. Aduana. Carcel. Escuela. Cuartel. Puerto. Calle Bolivar. Calle Sarmiento. Villa Encarnacion (Paraguay). Salto de Pona. Salto Yguazu. Rio San Juan. Guayaqui (Alto Parana). Sres. de Basaldua, Alfredo Hamelle y Jesus Val (self-portrait). Un monte de Helechos. Bambues. Cafeieres. Bananeros. Pineapples. Pescados. Yerba Mate. Ruinas de San Ignacio. Two (2) oblong in-4 albums, bound in green percaline, titled on the first boards, consisting respectively of 25 and 33 albumen prints, after glass negatives, mounted on cardboard. Handwritten annotation specifying the provenance of the first album at the beginning of the volume. Numerous captions printed on labels and laminated to the mounts in the second album. Numerous negative numbers at the bottom of the prints. Average format: 17 x 23.5 cm Family provenance. At the end of the 19th century, the Argentine government offered a boat ticket and a plot of land to create settler communities to enhance the value of its territory. From 1857 onwards, 200,000 French people emigrated. Gustave Léopold (known as Alfredo), born on March 16, 1841 in Saint-Quentin (Aisne), left in the early 1880s with his wife and children, as an engineer. With 300 hectares (half woodland, half land), he settled in the province of Misiones, near Posadas, the provincial capital. In a letter to his father dated December 25, 1881, he mentions the purchase of a camera. He was a constant witness to local life, photographing the main buildings in Posadas and the grandiose landscapes of the Iguazu Falls. After the tragic death of his children, he returned to France in 1904 with his wife and their fifteen-year-old granddaughter, settling in Asnières-sur-Seine, where he died on May 17, 1918.