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Mexico City - dead men & horses in street before National Palace, Feb. 1933 – Historic Photograph Print

Mexico City - dead men & horses in street before National Palace, Feb. 1933, 1913 — historic photograph
Mexico City - dead men & horses in street before National Palace, Feb. 1933, 1913. Historic photograph from the Horses 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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This historic photograph of Mexico City - dead men & horses in street before National Palace, Feb. 1933 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Mexico City - dead men & horses in street before National Palace, Feb. 1933

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The title places this scene in front of the National Palace in Mexico City, with bodies and dead horses in the street, but the caption gives February 1933 while the date field reads 1913. The 1913 date fits the subject better, since that February brought the Decena Trágica, ten days of street fighting across the capital during the Mexican Revolution. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a news photography archive, and it shows how press images of the period often recorded the violence in the streets rather than the political leaders behind it.

Created / published1913
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 973 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139637

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