Fine edited book comprising a selection of 500 photographic portraits from the collection of the Foundation Joaquim Nabuco. These period studio portraits reveal the faces and details of clothes, expressions and contexts of a crucial period of Brazilian history, the end of slavery and the Empire and the beginning of the Republic. Hundreds of families of the "Ciclo Açucareiro" (Sugar Cycle) to women who challenged their time, such as author and feminist Hedwig de Sá Pereira (page 55, v. 1), and the photo of Fatima Miris, a transformist artist who played at the theatre in the Park, at the end of the Decade of 1910 (page 90, v.1).