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Abstract
Like most emigrants to South America, photography first took root in the coastal cities before creeping inland.1 Within a few years of Father Louis Compte's demonstration of the wonders of dagucrrcotypy to an assembly at the Hotel Pharoux in Rio de Janeiro in 1840, intrepid daguerreotypists had strapped the bulky tools of their trade to mules and made the arduous trek up to the Bolivian Altiplano.2 By the 1860s, after the daguerreotype had been supplanted by various processes using glass plates, from which paper copies could be made, photography was flourishing in Bolivia.