Mexico. Cock fight – Historic Photograph Print
![Mexico. Cock fight, [between 1909 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/52/523ad1448b7d-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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This rare historic photograph captures Mexico. Cock fight in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mexico. Cock fight
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Few subjects in the National Photo Company's Mexican views are as specific as this one: a cockfight, a blood sport and social gathering that drew crowds in Mexico's towns and cities. The record dates the glass negative only to the years between 1909 and 1920, a span when the company, a Washington, D.C., firm, sent photographers and sold views of foreign and domestic scenes to a public eager to see distant places. Cockfighting had long been a popular pastime across Mexico, and travel photographers often treated it as a picturesque local custom. The negative's surface shows streaks and blemishes from the gradual breakdown of its original coating, which is typical of glass plates from this era.
| Created / published | [between 1909 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch five. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,954 × 4,345 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-249720 |
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