CELEBRATORY GREETING CARDS FROM MEXICO. 40 BLACK AND WHITE AND DUO TONE PHOTOGRAPHS MOUNTED IN COMMERCIAL CELEBRATORY CARDS. ; 1- 3 fldg. cards, duo tone photograph tipped-in deckled edges and embossed framework motif, (17 x 11.5 cm). One card stamped "689. Fuente Tarasca, Morelia, Mich. Vallejo Foto" 2- 5 fldg. cards, duo tone photograph tipped-in deckled edges and embossed framework motif, (11.5 x 17 cm), All stamped, two with seal "Yañez Foto" 3- 1 fldg. cards, b/w photograph tipped-in with embossed framework motifs "Saludos e México", (11.5 x 17 cm) 4- 1 fldg. cards, duo tone photograph tipped-in with embossed framework with stamp "Felicidades para el presente Año (signed)", (12 x 16 cm) 5- 1 fldg. cards, duo tone photograph tipped-in "Primavera en el Paricutín, broto en Febrero 20 de 1943, en Michoacán, Méx.", (11.5 x 17 cm) 6- 1 fldg. cards, duo tone photograph tipped-in with embossed framework with stamp "Calle de las Casas 9, Cuernavaca)", (14.5 x 12 cm) 7- 2 fldg. cards, b/w photograph deckled edges tipped-in card Stamped "Zacatecas, Zac.", ( 9 x 15 cm) 8- 12 fldg. cards, duo tone photograph tipped-in deckled edges and embossed w/ christmas motifs, (10 x 15 cm.), 3 dups. 9- 4 fldg. cards, duo tone photograph tipped-in deckled edges and embossed w/ christmas motifs, ( 9 x 15 cm) 10- 1 fldg. cards, duo tone photograph tipped-in with embossed framework, (14 x 11 cm.) 11- 1 cards, duo tone photograph tipped-in with embossed framework with stamp "Sincera Felicitación para Navidad y Año Nuevo", (13 x 10 cm.) 12- 3 cards, duo tone photograph tipped-in with embossed framework, (11 x 13 cm) 13- 2 cards, duo tone photograph tipped-in with embossed framework, (10 x 14 cm) 14- 2 fldg. cards, duo tone colored photograph tipped-in w/ christmas motifs, (12 x 9.5 cm), One stamped "172. México. Canal de Xochimilco" 15- 1 cards, duo tone deckled edges photograph tipped-in, ( 9 x 15 cm)
Mexico: 1938-1956. Item #113721
Beautiful photographs of landmark places from all over Mexico mounted in folding cards and used for celebratory proposes (Christmas, New Year, etc.) Some stamped Vallejo Foto, a photographic studio active between the 1930's and 1940's, who produced close to 1000 postcards with landscapes of Mexico or Yañez Foto the photographic studio of Maurico Yañez (Jalisco 1882-?), who In 1924 settled in Mexico City, producing postcards with views of the Mexican Republic, for which he traveled mainly through the center of the country and the Bajío (lowlands), a region that includes parts of the states of Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas. In 1935 in collaboration with Hugo Brehme, he illustrated the guide “La zona arqueológica de Teotihuacán: San Cristóbal Ecatepec y Acolmán" (Ediciones Botas). Some cards include handwritten messages or signatures and some include printed messages.
Price: $1,400.00