Juan Valladares Rodríguez rescues a valuable document that gives us clues about the image of Francisco Morazán most widespread to date

Abstract

The article now shared in the pages of the University Magazine tells the story of the image of the hero's profile narrated by the person who made the photographic reproduction of the based on an oil portrait owned by the family of the then president of Honduras the General Luis Bográn around 1889. It is then a description of this historic image and also contributes to the rescue of an emblematic figure in the history of documentary photography in Honduras, as was Juan T. Aguirre, an outstanding artist living in different countries of the Americas Central from the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. For his study located in the call For that time, Plaza San Francisco, prominent personalities from political life and intellectual of the Honduran society of his time, to this outstanding photographer we owe the opportunity to see the effigy of prominent public figures in our history: Francisco Morazán, José Trinidad Cabañas, Luis Bográn, Policarpo Bonilla among many personalities who they could enlist. From there we can infer the importance of this contribution by Juan Valladares Rodríguez to rescue the history of the image of Morazán, but also the narration of that prolific documentarian to whom we owe this image.