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South of the border : Mexican Vacation.
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South of the border: Mexican VacationAbstract:
Chiefly snapshot photographs taken by an unidentified young American couple during their vacation in Mexico. Locations and
subjects depicted include Mexico City (Cathedral, Basílica de Guadalupe, wedding, bullfight, city view, Obregón monument),
Xochimilco (canals, market, dwellings), Toluca (market), Cuernavaca (Diego Rivera mural), Cholua (city view), Acolman (monastery),
Teotihuacán (Pyramid of the Sun), Rancho el Blanco (fiesta), Taxco (city view, Cathedral, hotel), Acapulco (hotel), Monterrey
(street vendor), Vanegas (children), and homes on an unidentified freight train. Also includes an image of the couple prior
to their departure at a train station in St. Louis, Missouri and another image of them in Laredo, Texas before entering Mexico.
The couple is depicted in a few photographs.
Date:
1941 (issued)Subject:
n-mx---Tourists -- Mexico -- Photographs
Touristes -- Mexique -- Photographies
Mexico -- Photographs
Note:
Title and date hand-written on first page.
Photographer(s) unknown.
Inlcudes 3 real photograph commercial postcards.
All images described in hand-written captions, in English, on album leaves.
Purchase from William Reese Co. ; 2021.
South of the border : Mexican vacation, BANC PIC 2022.070, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
51 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints ; prints various sizes, album 28 x 20 cm
Language:
English