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Splendidly equipped carpet factory, Santa Gertrudes, near Orizaba, Mexico – Vintage Wall Art

Splendidly equipped carpet factory, Santa Gertrudes, near Orizaba, Mexico, c1903. — historic photograph
Splendidly equipped carpet factory, Santa Gertrudes, near Orizaba, Mexico, c1903.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Step back in time with Splendidly equipped carpet factory, Santa Gertrudes, near Orizaba, Mexico, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Splendidly equipped carpet factory, Santa Gertrudes, near Orizaba, Mexico

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Few images from the early 1900s show a working Mexican carpet factory as clearly as this stereograph does. It depicts the Santa Gertrudes works near Orizaba in Veracruz, a region known for its textile mills and factories fed by nearby rivers and the rail line to the coast. Underwood & Underwood, a firm that sold stereoviews of travel and industry to American households, produced cards like this one around 1903, when the Díaz government was courting foreign investment and promoting modern manufacturing. The caption data was recorded long after the photograph was taken and has not been verified, so the exact date and the factory's operations deserve a careful check against other sources.

Created / publishedc1903.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. 2. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Industry--Rugs; Mexico--Santa Gertrudes--1903; Photog. I.; Geogr.; Factories; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 792 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147698

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