Pioneer Photography in Bolivia

taking up photography, Blumel was a baker. Later in life, he struck it rich as a miner and owned thermal springs at Huancapampa, from which he sold bottled mineral water.

Boada, Luis. Boada was a photographer in La Paz in the late 1800s. The imprint "Luis Boada" appears on stereographs of La Paz views, including Obrajes and the Plaza Murillo.

Bohorques Duque, Julio. Active in La Paz, Bohorques Duque had a studio on Comercio ca.

1928.

Bolland, Henry. Bolland was an English explorer and director of the ca. 1900 "Exploración Boliviana al Alto Paraguay y la Laguna Gaiba." His narrative of the expedition, Exploración practicada en el Alto Paraguay y en la Laguna Gaiba (1910), contains a dozen photographs of the region.

Boock, Rodolfo. Active in Antofagasta, Chile, in the early 1900s, Boock published Huanchaca, Pulacayo, Bolivia, an album of albumen photographs of the Huanchaca mine works.

Bowles, Juan S. A photograph credited to Bowles, "Types of river boats on the Río Beni, Bolivia," appears in Frederick L. Hoffman's article, "American Business Opportunities in Bolivia," Bulletin of the Pan American Union (vol. LV, no. 2, August 1922).

Bowman, Isaiah (1878-1950). An American geographer, explorer, and founder of the American Geographical Society, Bowman traveled extensively and made many photographs in Peru (he was a member of Hiram Bingham's 1911 Yale South American Expedition) and Bolivia in the early 1900s. See, for example, his "Trade Routes in the Economic Geography of Bolivia," Bulletin of the American Geographical Society (vol. XLII, no. 1, January 1910). The society's archives at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee hold two Bowman prints from Bolivia.

Brachet, A. Brachet was a postcard publisher and possibly a photographer in the early 1900s.

His imprint appears on 1904-1906 postcards of La Paz. Buchler, E.E. Buchler was presumably an American photographer. Five of his photographs were published with Alicia O'Reardon Overbeck's "Bolivia, Land of Fiestas," National Geographic Magazine (November 1934).

Burgemeister E. Burgemeister was active in La Paz ca. 1918, with a studio at Calle Comercio 24.

Bury, F. The imprint "Fot. F. Bury" appears on a ca. 1920 photograph of a caravan automobiles on the Yungas road.

Butrón, Evaristo. Butrón was a photographer in Cochabamba in the 19th century.