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COURRET ARCHIVE, BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DEL PER\u00da, PERU<\/div>\n

In 1863, the Frenchmen Eugenio and Aquiles Courret set up their photo studio, named Fotograf\u00eda Central, on Jir\u00f3n de la Uni\u00f3n, the epicenter of social life in Lima at the time. Given the Courret family\u2019s congenial relationships with Peruvian politicians and aristocrats, the studio was frequented by Lima\u2019s most affluent families and it became one of the most important of its kind in South America.<\/p>\n

The pictures from the Courret Archive displayed here are portraits of women of African descent who were wet nurses, selected to care for the infants of Lima\u2019s elite in the nineteenth century. Aristocratic customs inherited from the period of slavery meant these women were made to work as nannies, whose duties included breastfeeding the newborns of affluent families.<\/p>\n

Part of the Courret Archive was purchased by Peru\u2019s National Library in 1999 and can be accessed on line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-proyecto-en.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}