MEXICO - Lot 107

MEXICO French travel album for Mexico, ca.1920. Photographs. Album comprising 94 vintage silver prints, some with captioned tapuscrit labels affixed below the image. Mexico City: numerous market scenes, monuments to Cuauhtemoc, Christopher Columbus, Charles IV, independence, Washington, Morelos, Juarez, post office, San Antonio chapel, cathedral, Guadalupe Hidalgo, Holy Trinity church, house of Francisco Madero, the "pulque", foreign ministry building, Chapultepec castle, La Profesa church, Salto del Agua spring, national palace, chamber of deputies, national theater, Buen Tono chapel, bell, figures in the cloister; Xochimilco: photo session, boat trip and view of a pond; Tepotzotlan: temple of San Francisco Javier, cactus; Tepexpam: church, men with hats, boat trip, man in costume reading on the banks of a river, carriage, donkeys carrying wood; Lake Chapultepec, horse parade, tramway, Teotihuacan: views of pyramids including that of the sun, San Bartolo church, Quetzalcoalt temple, travelers in aloes, children drawing water, woman wearing cloth, tramp, man on horseback. Images: 6 x 10.5 cm; album: 20 x 28 cm