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View in Ixtapalapa, Mexico – Antique Wall Art

View in Ixtapalapa, Mexico, [between 1880 and 1897] — historic photograph
View in Ixtapalapa, Mexico, [between 1880 and 1897]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(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 View in Ixtapalapa, 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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An old church stands at the foot of the Cerro Estrella in this view of Ixtapalapa, a district on the southeast edge of Mexico City, with agaves growing nearby. The glass negative is attributed to William Henry Jackson, the American photographer who worked extensively in Mexico in the 1880s and 1890s, and the Detroit Publishing Company later issued it as a commercial view. Agave, the source of pulque and mezcal, was a common crop across the central valley, so the plants show as much about local farming as the building does. The hill and the open cultivated ground around it suggest the rural margins of the capital at that time.

Created / published[between 1880 and 1897]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views: Old church at the foot of the Cerro Estrella. Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8614. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsChurches. Agaves.Mexico--Ixtapalapa.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 711 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76560

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