[铁路雨刷] - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	[铁路雨刷]
品名（英）	[Railroad Wipers]
入馆年号	2005年，2005.100.581
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1855 - 公元 1859
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 20.2 x 15.1 厘米 (7 15/16 x 5 15/16 英寸) Mount: 42.2 x 30.2 厘米 (16 5/8 x 11 7/8 英寸)
介绍（中）	这幅优雅的一群劳工集体肖像来自一位比利时商人在秘鲁参与铁路建设企业的相册。亨德里克斯上尉在 1850 年代中期和 1860 年代在南美洲工作，大概是在旅行中获得了这张照片。虽然照片没有注释，但每个人拥有的干净折叠毛巾中可能都有关于受试者职业的线索。这些证据表明，机组人员是"雨刷工"，这是铁路早期的常见职业。机车一到达车站或圆屋，一队雨刷就彻底擦拭发动机。但是这张照片是在哪里拍的呢？亨德里克斯现已拆解的专辑至少包含另外两张早期的盐印——田纳西州纳什维尔和密苏里州圣路易斯的景色——因此场景可能在北美。或者在秘鲁，就此而言：南美洲建造的第一条铁路是在卡亚俄和利马之间建造的，用于有利可图的鸟粪贸易。然而，仔细检查照片表明并非如此。男士的发型、独特的草帽和白领衬衫强烈暗示巴西是巴西的所在地，可能是里约热内卢市，该国第一条铁路于 1854 年开通。
介绍（英）	This elegant group portrait of a team of laborers comes from an album assembled by a Belgian businessman involved in an enterprise to build railways in Peru. A Captain Hendrickx worked in South America in the mid-1850s and 1860s and presumably acquired this photograph on his travels. Although the photograph is not annotated, a clue to the subjects' occupation may reside in the clean folded towel that each man possesses. This evidence suggests that the crew were "wipers," a common profession in the early years of the railroad. As soon as a locomotive arrived in a station or roundhouse, a team of wipers thoroughly rubbed down the engine. But where was the photograph made? Hendrickx's now-disassembled album contained at least two other early salt prints-views of Nashville, Tennesssee, and St. Louis, Missouri-and thus the scene could possibly be in North America. Or in Peru, for that matter: the first railroad built in South America was constructed between Callao and Lima for the profitable guano trade. However, a careful examination of the photograph suggests otherwise. The men's hair styles, distinctive straw hats, and white collarless shirts strongly suggest Brazil as the location, possibly the city of Rio de Janeiro, where the first railroad in the country was inaugurated in 1854.