The tree of Noche Triste, Popotla – Antique Print
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(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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of The tree of Noche Triste, Popotla. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The tree of Noche Triste, Popotla
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The tree at Popotla, a village near the former shore of Lake Texcoco, is tied in local tradition to the summer of 1520, when Hernán Cortés and his forces were driven out of Tenochtitlan in the retreat known as La Noche Triste. Legend holds that Cortés wept beneath this ancient ahuehuete, a cypress native to Mexico. This color photochrom, made by the Detroit Publishing Company sometime between the mid-1880s and 1900, combines the tree with a nearby church and shows how the process layered several lithographic stones to build up its hues. Its subject reflects the appeal of sites linked to the Spanish conquest for travelers of the period.
| Created / published | [between 1884 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color. |
| Notes | In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 51164. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955. |
| Subjects | Churches. Historic trees.Mexico--Popotla. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 525 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-79072 |
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