| . New Timelines of First Images of Puerto Montt By: Alejandro Torres ( Researcher - photo gallery of Puerto Montt Heritage) President CEPH then give an update on the new chronological order of the earliest known images of Puerto Montt. With regard to what was already known, this new system does not undergo major changes, with the exception of the new image found in the newspaper German 1862 (previous article) that now moves into second place in qualifying already had. Also change slightly the years of the shots that had been allocated to each of the first images of the city, mainly due to new historical knowledge found in the reports of Quartermaster of the time. Obviously, this new classification is subject to discovery at any time of new images that might exist somewhere. Let's start then with this description. Can click on each of the images to enlarge in size and see more details of them. First known photograph of Puerto Montt (1860-61) The author of this picture is unknown. The original picture is lost. It is not known if the original exists somewhere or destroyed at some point. only thing we have today is a "reproduction of photographs," taken directly from "a part of the original" by renowned local photographer Arnold "Lolo" Skoruppa in the 1950's. This reproduction is quite small, measuring 10.5 cm. long by 6.0 cms. high. During the 1950's, was Skoruppa conducting research on old photographs that were of Puerto Montt in many family albums of the city, especially those in power of German families. In his photography studio had many albums and photographs that had provided these families. But great was the misery when a huge fire in 1956 destroyed almost the entire block from downtown, where exactly was located Skoruppa photography studio. Speaking after the newspaper El Llanquihue, very distressed Don Arnold commented that "much of the photographic heritage of the city had lost in the gruesome fire directly affected him." known this, and thinking about what might have happened with the original of this first picture of the city, and why he never heard of it from the 50's, and why only now has a tiny ???..... good reproduction of the original, I present here the first time a personal theory about the fate that could have been the original of this picture. As mentioned, Skoruppa performed during the 50's a study of old photographs of the city. If he made a photographic reproduction from the same original of this picture, and the burning of his photography studio match with the date of its investigations, it means that it is likely that the original of this picture was still in the hands of Skoruppa and saved just in his photography studio, and when the tragedy occurred, the "original of this picture is not saved from caught fire and was destroyed, leaving only for posterity photographic reproduction made by Skoruppa before the fire, which was found about 30 years later in the hands of a family in the city. I believe that this theory is probably what happened, since all the facts match exactly in the same period. At present this play is part of my personnel file. An important detail of this picture is that the church San Juan de Dios, which is seen in the foreground on the right side, has "2 towers", so this picture is before the storm occurred in mid-1861 that bounced a the towers of the first church that had the city. In turn, the image is after 1859, as seen in what is now William Street Gallardo, the first built by Jesuit priests. First lithography known Puerto Montt (1860-61) This image is a lithograph made in Germany by Bruck Burchard in 1861. This original lithograph Made in black and white, and measures about 1 meter long by 40 cm. high. Currently, this lithograph "is also lost." The image shown here is a modern photographic reproduction at some point was colored. The original lithograph was in the hands of the former Regional Museum of Puerto Montt, but one of its shipments, lithography is "lost" mysteriously. This lithograph is a faithful copy of the first photograph of Puerto Montt . Until a few years ago it was said that this was the first image of the city, dating in 1854 even as it appears on a giant in the central hall of a local university, and the first picture of Puerto Montt was the second known picture, but these concepts are wrong. The reality is that after a detailed study of this picture I made a couple of years ago, compared with the first picture of Puerto Montt, I realized that " both images are exactly the same " are identical in each one of its details, but only in the central part of lithography, so I consider that the first picture of Puerto Montt (which likely was destroyed in the fire suffered Skoruppa) must necessarily have been equal in size format of lithography, ie, the first picture must have had exactly the same amplitude image having lithography, to make it in Germany has been playing every detail exactly like the first picture. The only thing that does not correspond to the first picture are boats in the bay displayed in lithography, which is known to "were drawn on the lithograph" several years later, through information provided in the 90's by the renowned historian Emilio Held. Therefore, this lithograph with an image that shows, is the first lithograph city known whose image is the true copy of the first known photograph of Puerto Montt . Second known image of Puerto Montt (1861-62) In the previous article mentioned all the features of this picture. corresponds to the second image of the city known as turn is the oldest image found in the print media worldwide , being dated from late 1861 to early 1862. At that time to make this type of lithographs with city views, is usually used a basic picture, which was faithfully reproduced in lithography, with all its details. the bottom of the image of the newspaper, we read that this image is a photograph taken by photographer Herrmann of Valparaiso, original is not known to date and do not know if there somewhere, most likely in Germany. For now we will have to settle for this picture recently found by me, published in the German newspaper described as the November 22, 1862. known image of Puerto Montt (1864) This photograph, the original is in the Museo Regional de Puerto Montt, it the third image known Puerto Montt, and its features would dated in 1864. Its author is unknown. A very important detail of this picture is that the church of St John of God "has lost its second tower and the building is seen in very poor condition. According to reports Quartermaster of the time, this building "was demolished in January 1865 by the dilapidated state in which it was" therefore, if this photograph shows this building in a very precarious state, should correspond almost certainly the year 1864. show image here corresponds to a digital restoration did original photography, as the latter is in very bad conditions of conservation, was not made over the years a good handle on it in order to preserve the best way for the future .... a shame .. .. The original photograph is stained, torn and lacks several segments on the surface of the image. After this picture, new pictures are not known until 1869, when it comes to town Dr. Carlos Martin, who during the same year he made a series of 4 photographs with panoramic views of downtown, taken from the top of the hill where it is now the town hall. These photographs and their characteristics the show in a future article. |
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