Title:

[Greater University of Tours trip to Mexico photograph album]

Creator/Contributor:

Hicks, Bertha, creator, creator.

Album of snapshot photographs, postcards, ephemera and other materials compiled by a participant of a Greater University of Tours organized bus tour from the United States to Mexico in 1936. The tour, probably originating in Wyoming, included numerous points of interest in both countries. Among the Mexico locations depicted are Mexico City, Xochimilco, Cuernavaca, Nuevo Laredo, Taxco, Mamulique Pass, Acapulco, Aquilla, Limón, Pachuca, Toluca, Guadalupe and Pátzcuaro. Also depicted are farmers, artisans, indigenous peoples, various pyramids, and bulls. United States locations include Wyoming, Raton Pass, Texas (Hamilton Hotel in Laredo and the Alamo in Austin), New Orleans (Hotel De Soto) and the Mormon Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Adhered to many leaves are descriptive texts clipped from various sources, pertaining to cultural and geographic points of interest. Among the ephemera is a tourist identification card issued by a migration agency of Mexico, and a Greater University of Tours travel certificate, both in the name of Bertha Hicks and dated 1936. Other ephemera includes bus schedules, hotel stickers, a menu, an advertisement for UT (i.e. University of Tours) travel services, etc. Includes some photographs of tour participants.

Date:

1936 (issued)

Subject:

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Tourists -- Mexico -- Photographs

Mexicans -- Photographs

Bus travel -- Mexico

Travel

Mexico -- Photographs

Mexico -- Description and travel

Mexico

Title devised by cataloger.

Probably compiled by Bertha Hicks of Everett, Washington.

Also includes postcards, clippings and ephemera.

Album disbound for safe access.

Purchase ; From Michael Gilbert Fairley ; 2020.

Photograph album of Mexico, BANC PIC 2020.078, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic

Photographs.

Photograph albums.

Postcards.

photoprint

approximately 100 photographs in 1 box : gelatin silver prints mounted on paper leaves ; prints various sizes, album 18 x 26 cm

English

Origin:

California