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Mexico travel photograph album

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Description: A photograph album of tourists sightseeing in Mexico, including Mazatlan, Ruiz (Nayarit), Mexico City, Guadalupe, Xochimilco, Cuernevaca, and Tasco. Images show street scenes, markets, churches and monasteries, a bullfight, the pyramids at Teotihuacan, Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl volcanoes, and the Desert of the Lions (Desierto de los Leones).
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Production date: 1921
Call number: photCL 370
Provenance: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. Valentine, December 31, 1984.
Dimensions: images 12 x 7 cm, album 30 x 24 cm
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[Photograph album of scenes in Mexico]

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Photograph album with various snapshots chiefly documenting a trip to Mexico by Los Angeles, California, resident Charles A. Finlayson around 1930, including images of buildings and streets in Mexico City, a visit to a park with deer, buildings under construction, the canals of Xochimilco, and Aztec ruins at Teotihuacan, as well as images, presumably, of Finlayson. Throughout the album, there are also images of the derailment of a locomotive and train cars, presumably of the National Railroad of Mexico, which were carrying military cannons, with photographs of executed men who had been hanged from utility poles along the tracks.

photCL 371

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Photograph album of automobile road trips across the United States and into Mexico

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An album of 296 snapshot photographs documenting two excursions by automobile across the United States and into Mexico in the late 1930s by a group of young men who appear to have been students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts. The first trip, in July and August of 1937, includes numerous scenes in Washington, D.C., Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Wyoming, and New York. Their travels involved stops at the Tennessee Valley Authority power station at Muscle Shoals, Alabama; Carlsbad Caverns National Park; Grand Canyon National Park; Boulder Dam; Death Valley; Sequoia and Yosemite national parks; Yellowstone National Park; and Niagara Falls. In Mexico, they toured the capital and saw a bullfight. The majority of photographs have handwritten captions in white pencil describing locations. Other images depict collegiate sports, including track and golf, and some mountain climbing. Another western excursion in 1938 includes visits to the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas, Colorado locations, and another visit to Yosemite National Park. The remaining photographs consist of views of the WPI campus, the destructive impact of the 1938 New England hurricane, and stops at unidentified hydroelectric engineering sites.

photCL 651

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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.

mssHM 83832

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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.

photCL 338

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Toshio Anzai photograph albums

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Two photograph albums of approximately 400 black-and-white photographs taken by Major Toshio Anzai of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF), during a training visit to the United States from August 1954 to January 1955. Anzai and two other JSDF personnel are seen training in medical rescue with the U.S. Army; socializing with American officers and their families at their homes; and sightseeing across the southern United States and Mexico. The photographs have captions written in English and Japanese, with more detailed descriptions and observations written in Japanese. The albums document the personal and professional interactions between Japanese and American military personnel during the Cold War alliance.

photCL 723

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Photograph album of Veracruz, Mexico

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An album of 39 photographic postcards of scenes of rural and city life in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, taken by unidentified photographers in the 1930s. The commercially-made images have captions in Spanish etched into the negative, and many have an MF mark for The Mexico Photographic Company. The images include street scenes, outdoor markets, city buildings and bridges, as well as automobile, bus, and train travel. Detailed scenes of rural life include women selling pots or washing clothes at the river, family groups posing in front of their homes, and men in labor activities such as loading lumber onto mules.

photCL 668

Mexico travel photograph album

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