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Friday, April 21, 2017

Mexico: An album of mounted photographs

Mules packing timbers, City of Mexico; Burros packing bundles of hay. National Palace in background, City of Mexico; San Luis Potosi, Mexico, 1898. Second class street car, first class street car; Cathedral in City of Mexico, over 400 years old, 1903

A Plaza in City of Mexico, fountain in the Alameda, the Zocala; Front view of Chapultepec, Mex. Summer home of President Diaz. Nearly all the rulers of Mexico have used this castle during the past few hundred years. Three miles from City. In rear is Mexican "West Point"; Entrance to Chapultepec; Suburban church, Mexico, 1903

Station scene on Mexican Central R.R., about 40 miles from Tampico. River in background is navigable for six hundred miles; In the tropics, near Tampico, Mexico; Mexican courtyards: Dogs, people near and far; Same; Palms, people, paths, etc. Patio or inner courtyard in Govt. Art Museum, City of Mexico, 1903
Source: From the New York Public Library

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