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Photographs of rural Mexico
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A group of 13 photographs (small snapshots and photographic postcards) depicting life in rural Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s. The five small photographs (3 x 3.5 inches) are scenes from a parade in a small town on September 16, 1938, Mexican Independence Day. Children are seen carrying a Mexican flag, a decorated truck has a banner that reads "Viva Mexico," and boys and girls are dressed in traditional vaquero attire. They were taken by an unknown photographer and have identifications in Spanish on the back. The eight commercially-made photographic postcards include scenes in Guanajuato; packed burros on narrow cobblestone roads; rows of clay pots, plates and cups alongside buildings; a woman making tortillas; and vaqueros loading hay on a donkey. There are two portraits with captions reading "Tipos Mexicanos," most likely made for the tourist trade. One shows a young man and woman posed next to a large cactus, holding hands, and the other is of a barefoot man wearing a straw poncho around his shoulders.
photCL 713
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Photographs of rural Mexico
Visual Materials
A group of 13 photographs (small snapshots and photographic postcards) depicting life in rural Mexico in the 1930s and 1940s. The five small photographs (3 x 3.5 inches) are scenes from a parade in a small town on September 16, 1938, Mexican Independence Day. Children are seen carrying a Mexican flag, a decorated truck has a banner that reads "Viva Mexico," and boys and girls are dressed in traditional vaquero attire. They were taken by an unknown photographer and have identifications in Spanish on the back. The eight commercially-made photographic postcards include scenes in Guanajuato; packed burros on narrow cobblestone roads; rows of clay pots, plates and cups alongside buildings; a woman making tortillas; and vaqueros loading hay on a donkey. There are two portraits with captions reading "Tipos Mexicanos," most likely made for the tourist trade. One shows a young man and woman posed next to a large cactus, holding hands, and the other is of a barefoot man wearing a straw poncho around his shoulders.
photCL 713