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    Series III. Mexico

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    Includes photographs depicting markets, street scenes, street vendors, churches, indigenous people, and villages, as well as images depicting Mazatlán; Mexico City and environs; Taxco and Cuernavaca, including views of the Santa Prisca church and of cockfights; and Punta Banda, in which several photographs show people camping and painting. Many of the photographs are very small snapshots, 7 x 9 cm (2 x 3.5 in.) or smaller, taken by unidentified photographers; examples are in Box 6, Sleeves 1-3 and 6.

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    William Hertrich travel album

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    A photograph album of 69 snapshots chronicling William Hertrich's travels to Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, and the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935-1936 in San Diego, California. Photographs of Alaska show the town of Dawson, McKinley National Park, glaciers, and two views of native Alaskan villages. Photographs in Hawaii show scenery around Honolulu, especially details of trees, plants and gardens, which are identified by name in captions. Photographs of Mexico show Cuernavaca, Mazatlán, and a pyramid at Teotihuacan. Hertrich does not appear in any photographs, but there is one photograph of his wife Margarete Hertrich with a woman identified only as Jean.

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    Czarine Boxall Canada travel album

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    This photo album portrays a lengthy excursion taken by Czarine Boxall in August and September 1947 to Lake Louise, Jasper and Prince Rupert, as depicted by snapshots, captioned postcards, and the compiler's own typewritten account, which is bound in with the pages of photographs and snapshots. The volume also contains a full itinerary of the trip, probably generated by the compiler using information supplied by the tour operator. The album is marked "Northwest Canada" on the front cover.

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    Collection of photographic postcards of Mexico

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    A collection of 139 photographic postcards featuring Mexican cities, landmarks, and people, collected by American tourists during the first half of the twentieth century. The postcards are almost all captioned and many include the copyright of Mexican photography studios such as Fidel Figueroa, M.R. Martinez, Kodak Mexicana Ltd., Navarro Fot., Sabino Osuna, Hugo Brehme, and others. The postcards depict market and street scenes, portraits of Mexican farmers and vendors, churches and monuments, hotels, restaurants, musicians, bull cart drivers, and children, in locations such as Mexico City, Taxco, Acapulco, Monterrey, Cuernavaca, and Tijuana. There are also a few images of house interiors, showing furnishings and artwork. Twenty of the postcards were mailed from Mexico to family and friends in New York, and include cancelled stamps and handwritten notes from visiting Americans.

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    Collection of photographic postcards of Mexico

    Visual Materials

    A collection of 139 photographic postcards featuring Mexican cities, landmarks, and people, collected by American tourists during the first half of the twentieth century. The postcards are almost all captioned and many include the copyright of Mexican photography studios such as Fidel Figueroa, M.R. Martinez, Kodak Mexicana Ltd., Navarro Fot., Sabino Osuna, Hugo Brehme, and others. The postcards depict market and street scenes, portraits of Mexican farmers and vendors, churches and monuments, hotels, restaurants, musicians, bull cart drivers, and children, in locations such as Mexico City, Taxco, Acapulco, Monterrey, Cuernavaca, and Tijuana. There are also a few images of house interiors, showing furnishings and artwork. Twenty of the postcards were mailed from Mexico to family and friends in New York, and include cancelled stamps and handwritten notes from visiting Americans.

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    Photograph album depicting travel in Central Mexico

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    Album containing photographs taken during a 1905 train tour of Mexico. The photographs depict people and places throughout Mexico including Monterrey, Mexico City, Guanajuato, and Queretaro; there are also several photographs of the travelers and tour employees. The photographs are numbered and there is an index glued on the rear pastedown providing a description and location for all the photographs in the album. A souvenir brochure laid into the album indicates that the trip was a Raymond & Whitcomb Tour, which departed from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia on February 9, 1905. The brochure lists the names of the travelers.

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