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Collection of photographic postcards of Mexico
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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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Czarine Boxall Mexico travel albums
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These three albums depict a lengthy excursion taken by Czarine Boxall in 1945 to Mexico City, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tehucacán, Orizaba, Córdoba, Fortín de las Flores, Cuernavaca, Taxco, Morelia, Pátzcuaro, Guadalajara and Mazatlán, as documented by snapshots, captioned postcards and the compiler's own typewritten account, which is bound in with the pages of photographs and snapshots. Each of the three volumes contains extensive commentary about her trip as incorporated by Ms. Boxall on typewritten sheets of paper bound in with the images. The albums are each marked "Mexico" on the front cover.
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Photographic postcards, color postcards, and a few photographs
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A binder of approximately 400 images of the Philippines, chiefly black-and-white photographic postcards, 3.25 x 5.5 inches, with titles imprinted by the publisher. There are also color photomechanical postcards, and a few loose photographs. Some postcards have writing and stamps and have been mailed to the U.S. and elsewhere. Of note is one oversized panoramic format, hand-colored photo postcard of Baguio. These postcards were produced in large quantities by photography studios and publishers often based in the Philippines and circulated internationally.
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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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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.
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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.
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