Paul Alexander Bartlett was an American writer, artist, and poet. He made a large-scale study of more than 350 Mexican haciendas, published novels, short stories, and poetry, and worked as a fine artist in a variety of media.
Paul Alexander Bartlett, 1960. Photograph from Steven James Bartlett's "Elizabeth Bartlett and Paul Alexander Bartlett: Two Portraits" from PhilPapers
Paul Alexander Bartlett sketching a Mexican hacienda, photo circa 1973. Photograph from Steven James Bartlett's "Elizabeth Bartlett and Paul Alexander Bartlett: Two Portraits" from PhilPapers
Hacienda de Mediñero, Jalisco, Mexico. Main hacienda residence; one-room school was located in the right wing of residence. Pen-and-ink illustration by Paul Alexander Bartlett, from Bartlett's The Haciendas of Mexico: An Artist's Record. University Press of Colorado (1990); Project Gutenberg edition
A hacienda is an estate, similar to a Roman latifundium, in Spain and the former Spanish Empire. With origins in Andalusia, haciendas were variously plantations, mines or factories, with many haciendas combining these activities. The word is derived from Spanish hacer and haciendo (making), referring to productive business enterprises.
Hacienda Lealtad is a working coffee hacienda which used slave labor in the 19th century, located in Lares, Puerto Rico.
Gardens of the Hacienda San Gabriel in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Hacienda of Xcanchakan, Yucatán, Mexico
Wheat mill and theatre of Vicente Gallardo; Hacienda Atequiza, Jalisco, Mexico, 1886.
