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Mexican postcard views.
BANC PIC 1999.028--PICLOCAL
Collection Overview

Title:

Mexican postcard views

Creator/Contributor:

Yáñez, photographer

Abstract:

Includes street scenes, cityscapes, buildings, antiquities, building interiors, murals, people in traditional dress, bull fights, and other typical scenes for tourist postcards. Locations include Mexico City, Cuernavaca, Taxco, Xochimilco, Teotihuacán, Ensenada, Acapulco, Tijuana, and others. Postal viewbook contains color prints of scenes in Tijuana, ca. 1915.

Date:

ca. 1905-ca. 1950 (issued)

Subject:

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Buildings -- Mexico -- Photographs
Constructions -- Mexique -- Photographies
Buildings
Mexico -- Pictorial works
Mexico City (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Cuernavaca (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Taxco de Alarcón (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Xochimilco (Mexico City, Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Teotihuacán (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Ensenada (Baja California, Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Acapulco (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
Mexico
Mexico -- Acapulco
Mexico -- Cuernavaca
Mexico -- Ensenada (Baja California)
Mexico -- Mexico City
Mexico -- Mexico City -- Xochimilco
Mexico -- Taxco de Alarcón
Mexico -- Tijuana (Baja California)

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Various photographers and publishers, including many by Yáñez Fot.
Chiefly photographic prints, with some photomechanical reproductions (halftones and collotypes). Includes some cyanotype postcards.
Artificial collection assembled by dealer.

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Pictorial works.
Postcards.
Cityscapes-Mexico.
Cyanotypes.

Physical Description:

photoprint
252 photographic prints and prints (postcards) and 1 viewbook : chiefly b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.

Language:

Spanish

Identifier:

BANC PIC 1999.028--PICLOCAL

Origin:

Mexico