Early 20th Century Mexico, Mexican-Texas Border, and New Mexico Vintage Photographs

Mexico, Early Photography

Published by Publication Date: 1910

[Mexico] [Early Photography] [Western Americana] Archive of 14 vintage photographs of early 1900s-1930s Mexico. Photographs show men in sombreros and women in sarapes walking the rural dirt roads, at markets, on burro pulling wooden wagons, and many more daily activities. Silver gelatin and sepia photographs, with nine real photo post cards. Post cards measure about 4" x 6" and some are captioned. Some of these post cards are from the Texas-Mexican border, one showing two Mexican women in cotton outfits peeling corn and making tortillas while four children pose behind. Another, with the caption "Native Family and Typical Jacal" shows a family of seven posed outside a thatched roof adobe. Two interesting post cards show two different men hauling water in different ways. One man hauls the barrel on the ground while the other has the barrel loaded onto a wood wagon. One small silver gelatin shows deserted stone ruins near a marsh with the en verso locating it as ".on road to Rincon, N.M." Another photo shows two barefoot smiling children located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with the en verso caption reading "Two Mexican bootblacks, names unknown. They spit on your shoes to make them shine. Little fellow is very bashful." One photo shows a Mexican man from around the 1930s with a rifle and large dagger holster wearing a cowboy hat and cowboy boots. Three post cards belong to a couple and their child as they're photographed on Xochimilco's famous floating gardens. Two photographs pasted on colored boards show local men and women in traditional clothing at an outdoor market enjoying food and drink, while another shows a dirt road surrounded by old brick buildings with signs and advertisements in Spanish, wooden carriages sit outside, both are from a German tourist with captions in German underneath. Each photograph is crisp and clear, hardly any edge wear to some of the card stock corners. This collection paints a story of early post colonial Mexico as it adapts it's culture through Western economic and social norms. In overall very good condition. Seller Inventory # 20396

Bibliographic Details

Title: Early 20th Century Mexico, Mexican-Texas ...
Publication Date: 1910
Binding: Hardcover