Collection of photographic postcards of Mexico

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.