A basket seller and his wares City of Mexico Mexico – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with A basket seller and his wares City of Mexico Mexico, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A basket seller and his wares City of Mexico Mexico
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A basket seller carrying his wares through Mexico City is the subject here, a figure who was a familiar part of street life in the capital in the early twentieth century. The picture was made in 1908 as a stereograph, a paired-image card meant to be viewed through a stereoscope so the scene appeared to have depth. Stereoviews like this were widely sold and collected in that period, offering armchair travelers glimpses of far-off places and everyday work. Street vendors such as this one, moving goods on foot to households across the city, were a common sight that tended to draw the eye of photographers recording local life.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | H110142 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 17606. · Hertz Henrik 1798-1870 author. |
| Subjects | Peddlers--Mexico--Mexico City--1900-1910. Baskets--Mexico--Mexico City--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,608 × 2,196 px · prints to 15 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-270007 |
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