Photographs of Eugene Courret become Unesco Memory Heritage
epa10741681 A glass plate showing a picture taken by French photographer Eugene Courret, in the archives of the National Library of Peru (BNP) in Lima, Peru, 03 July 2023 (issued 12 July 2023). The BNP (Biblioteca Nacional del Peru) will receive recognition that 30,693 of Eugene Courret's plates have been incorporated into the register of the Memory of the World Program of the United Nations Organization.
Courret (1839-1920) took portraits of families and daily scenes of the Lima elite of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. EPA/Paolo Aguilar
