[Mexico Photography] Sanborns Department Store opening photo album, 1953, documents the expansion of modern retail culture and commercial architecture in Mexico City during the postwar period of urban growth and economic modernization. Sanborns, founded in Mexico in 1903, became one of the country’s most visible retail institutions and a symbol.....
Extensively captioned Mexico Photo album documenting a American tourist from Arizona's 1945 journey to Mexico and other Mexican landmarks during the World War II era. Contains 158 silver gelatin vernacular photographs plus approximately 10 hand-colored prints and 10 pieces of tourist ephemera. Accompanied by long-form handwritten captions that comment on.....
Early 20th century Mexico real photo postcard archive documents urban development, regional architecture, and everyday life across multiple states during the final years of the Porfiriato and the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. Produced between the 1900s and 1920s, the group captures both infrastructural modernization and persistent rural lifeways across.....
Photograph album documenting a multi-location journey through Mexico City and surrounding regions in the late 1930s, presenting a sustained visual record of urban life, Indigenous communities, and regional landscapes during a period of post-revolutionary modernization. Comprising 52 original black-and-white photographs, the album captures both monumental architecture and everyday social environments.....
