Convento y Iglesia de San Francisco, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico – Vintage Wall Art
![Convento y Iglesia de San Francisco, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/34/340c90f6664e-L.webp)
(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 Convento y Iglesia de San Francisco, Cholula, Puebla, 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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Convento y Iglesia de San Francisco, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico
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Cholula, in the state of Puebla, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Mesoamerica, and the Franciscan convent and church of San Francisco stand among its many colonial-era religious buildings. Friars arrived in the region in the 1520s, soon after the Spanish conquest, and their churches were often built over or beside older sacred sites. The photoprint was made by Hugo Brehme, a German-born photographer working in Mexico City in the early 20th century, whose views of Mexican towns and monuments circulated widely as postcards. The record gives no date, so the exact year the picture was taken remains unknown.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Hugo-Brehme, Mexico City. No. 6743. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,188 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152300 |
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