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[Mule caravan at town, Mexico] – Antique Print

[Mule caravan at town, Mexico], [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Mule caravan at town, Mexico], [between 1910 and 1920]. 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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[Mule caravan at town, Mexico]

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A line of pack mules loaded for the road is the subject here, shown approaching a town in Mexico. Mule trains called arrias or recuas carried goods across regions where rail lines had not yet reached, and they remained a common sight in rural Mexico well into the early twentieth century. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made travel views of many countries, collected negatives like this one to sell as scenic and documentary images. The catalog title was supplied by a cataloger, so the exact town and the date of exposure are not recorded.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle devised by cataloger. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75110

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