Iglesia de la Regina, Mexico City, Mexico: Lateral altar, Chapel of La Purisima – Vintage Print
![Iglesia de la Regina, Mexico City, Mexico: Lateral altar, Chapel of La Purisima, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4d/4de870cf7a7f-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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Iglesia de la Regina, Mexico City, Mexico: Lateral altar, Chapel of La Purisima comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Iglesia de la Regina, Mexico City, Mexico: Lateral altar, Chapel of La Purisima
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A lateral altar in the Chapel of La Purísima, inside the Iglesia de la Regina in Mexico City, is the focus of this view, with its doorways and shelving visible around the altarpiece. The caption card, marked as unverified, credits the photograph to Kahlo and records no date, so the exact year is uncertain. Mexico City's colonial churches often held elaborate gilded altarpieces, and early twentieth-century photographers recorded such interiors as part of a wider effort to document the country's architecture and religious art.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo by Kahlo. No. 313-1. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Churches--Mex.; Photog. I.; Mexico--Mexico City; AHC Cat.; Arch...--details; Doorways; Altarpieces; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,122 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-171649 |
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