Several of those sports pictures were published in "La Ilustración Guatemalteca" between 1896 and 1897. For the first issue of that cultural magazine he took the first ever instant photograph made in Guatemala on 28 June 1896, a picture of president general José María Reina Barrios, on his horse observing some military drills. He travelled non-stop all across Guatemala capturing the rural landscape, the roads and the railways; he would picture colonial monuments or Maya temples in Quiriguá. He was able to get many images of Guatemala with his lens and made an extraordinary effort of getting them to the public, but in Guatemala and overseas. He printed postcards and posters of the main cities in Guatemala, such as Guatemala City, Quetzaltenango, Antigua Guatemala and Amatitlán. Died in Guatemala City on 16 July 1928, as a result of a liver problem, in his own home, located on East fourth street #26, across the streef from the Santa Teresa Catholic Church. Valdeavellano never married and did not have any children, but led a plentiful family life with his siblings, nieces and nephews. References Bibliography