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Title:
Mexico 1938Abstract:
Snapshot photograph album documenting a trip through Mexico in 1938 by unidentified tourists. Points of interest depicted
inculde Mexico City, Xochimilco, San Luis Potosí, Toluca, Cholula, Río Laja, Bojai, Teotihuacán, the volcanoes Popocateptel
and Ixtaccihurtl, Taxco, Cuernavaca, and Puebla. The final image depicts a gravestone with the name Kenyon in a cemetery in
the United States. Two women and a man, one of whom is the likely compiler of the album, are depicted posing in several images.
Date:
1938 (issued)Subject:
n-mx---Mexico -- Description and travel
Mexico -- Photographs
Mexique -- Descriptions et voyages
Note:
Title from hand-written text atop first page.
Photographer, compiler unknown.
Most images described by hand-written captions, in English, on album leaves.
Purchase from Langdon Manor Books LLC ; 2023.
Mexico 1938, BANC PIC 2024.040, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
58 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints mounted to album leaves ; prints chiefly 8 x 13 cm, album 18 x 26 cm
Language:
English