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  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 424
    No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing Teotihuacan, an area northeast of Mexico City and famous for some of the most important archaeological discoveries on the North American Continent.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 423
    Caption: "Church of El Carmen - in a crypt beneath are a number of mummies, Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 422
    Caption: "Market Day, Toluca, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 421
    Caption: "Maguey and Corn Fields above San Angel, Mexico City.:
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 420b
    No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing San Angel, or Villa Alvaro Obregon, a municipality of Mexico City.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 420a
    No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing the city of Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 420
    Caption: "Market Day - Toluca, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 419
    Caption: "Ruins of an old Carmelite Monastery. El Desierto de Los Leones, near Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 418
    Caption: "Home of ex U.S. Ambassador Dwight Morrow - Cuernavaca, Mexico." Pictured is the former home of Dwight Whitney Morrow (1873-1931). Morrow was appointed Ambassador to Mexico by President Calvin Coolidge from 1927 - 1930.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 417
    Caption: "Avenda [sic] Zapata, Cuernavaca, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 416a
    No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure describing the city of Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 416
    Caption: "State capitol or Palacio de Cortes, Cuernavaca, Mexico." Built in 1526 as a residence for Spanish conqueror, Hernan Cortes, the Palacio de Cortes is the oldest conserved colonial era civil structure in the continental Americas. It is now El Museo Cuauhnahuac, a regional museum, which features murals by Mexican artist, Diego Rivera.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 415
    Caption: "Taxco Cathedral interior. San Sebastian y Santa Prisca."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 414
    Caption: "Cathedral San Sebastian y Santa Prisca. Taxco, Mexico," constructed between 1751 and 1758.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 413
    No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure, describing the town of Taxco in the state of Guerrero.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 412
    Caption: "Business district of the quaint little city of Taxco with its buildings of red tile roofs and adobe brick walls. - Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 411
    Caption: "You can drive your car into the lobby of the Hotel American. Note the ornamental ceiling and colonnades - Puebla, Mex."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 410
    Caption: "This convent was operated secretly since 1857, - discovered in 1935. Garden in the Santa Monica convent which has been closed by the government and is now a museum. Puebla, Mexico." William and Grace McCarthy standing by a fountain in the garden described above.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 409
    Caption: "Street Market - Calle Norts - Puebla, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 408
    Caption: "Business district of Puebla, Mexico - view taken from the Cathedral Belfry - Easter Sunday - April 17th, 1938.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 407
    Caption: "Easter Sunday, April 17, 1938. Immense 6 foot diameter bell. San Miguel Cathedral, Puebla, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 406
    Caption: "Interior of chapel - Templo de Santa Domingo - Puebla, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 405
    Caption: "Cathedral San Miguel - Puebla. Easter Sunday, Mexico April 17th 1938," opened in 1690.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 404
    Caption: Interior of the Church of San Francisco Acatepeck [sic] - Cholula." The church's construction was begun in 1590, with elaborate Spanish Baroque decorations added during the seventeenth century.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 403
    Caption: "Avenida del Ayuntamiento - principal street of Puebla, Mexico. This is an attractive street - note the arcades on the right."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 402
    No Caption: A section from an informational tourist brochure, describing the towns of Cholula and Puebla.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 401
    Caption: "Men unloading cement by carrying it in baskets on their heads - building construction - Puebla, Mexico, April 18, 1938."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 400
    Caption: "Post Office Building, antique Spanish architecture, Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 399
    Caption: Palace of Fine Arts, Interior beautiful marble effect - Mexico City." Pictured is the interior of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, with the famous mural, Man at the Crossroads, painted by Mexican artist Diego Rivera. The work was originally commissioned for New York's Rockefeller Center in 1933 but was destroyed for its perceived anti-capitalist themes. Rivera recreated it for the Palace of Fine Arts in 1934.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 398
    No Caption: A section of an informational tourist brochure describing the Palace of Fine Arts, or National Theater in Mexico City.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 397b
    No Caption: A four-cent Mexican postage stamp.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 397a
    No Caption: A two-cent Mexican postage stamp.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 397
    Caption: "Palace of Fine Arts or National Theater [sic] - built of white marble. Work started in 1900, complete in 1935, cost 35,000,000 pesos." The Palacio de Bellas Artes, is considered the cultural center of Mexico City. It houses the Museum of Architecture, and the National Theater, a performance space for music, dance, and theatre. Murals by renown Mexican artists such as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Jose Clemente Orozco, and others are exhibited on the top floor and other galleries throughout the building.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 396
    Caption: "Independence column, on the Avenida Paseo de la Reforma." Unofficially known as El Angel (The Angel), and officially as Monumento a la Indenpendencia (Monument to Independence), located in Mexico City.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 395
    Caption: "Paseo de La Reforma, the beautiful boulevard of Mexico City."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 394
    No Caption: A page from an informational tourist brochure describing Mexico City.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 393
    Caption: "In our flower decked tourist court, 46 Neva St. Mexico City." Grace McCarthy is seen sitting on an automobile bumper in the background of this photograph, while three Mexican men wearing sombreros and serapes pose in the foreground.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 392
    Caption: "Pan-American Highway monument marking the highway completion, July 1, 1936 Altitude 8209 feet. Highest point on route - 15 miles south of Octopan [sic], Mexico." Pictured is William McCarthy standing before the "Monument of Good Friendship (El Monumento de Buena Amistad), near Actopan, Mexico.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 391
    Caption: "Primitive method of ploughing, Tizayuca, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 390
    Caption: "Otme [sic] Indian School - these children are very scantily dressed. Their clothes are a product of the Maguey plant - Lagunilla, Mex."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 389
    Caption: "Tasquillo Canyon - Rio Tula, in vicinity of Zimipan, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 388
    Caption: "Maguey, a most useful plant from which is made paper, rope, twine, cloth, vinegar, molases [sic], medicine and native drinks, pulque, mezcal & tequila."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 387
    Caption: "Winding highway in the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains - Zimipan, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 386
    Caption: "Old Otomie [sic]Indian lady and her son. She is spinning twine from Maguey fiber onto a spool as she trudges the highway barefooted, Zimipan, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 385
    Caption: "Thatched hut Indian village, near Tamazunchale, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 384
    Caption: "Highway leaving Tamazunchale where the real climb into the Sierra Madre mountains begins - 170 miles to highest point - 8200 ft. elevation."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 383
    No Caption: A section of a tourist brochure describing the route and road conditions from Tamazunchale to Mexico City.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 382
    Caption: "Huasteca Indians transporting pottery - Tamazunchale, Mexico."
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 381
    Caption: "Huasteca Indian and their thatched hut, one tiny room. Tamzunchale, Mexico." **PLEASE NOTE: The electronic image derived from Album 10, Photograph 381 of the William McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08-alb10-381) contains content that may not be appropriate for online distribution, and has therefore been withheld. The image has also been removed from the Secretary of State’s digital storage systems, including hard drives, shared drives, cloud and other online storage, and digital backup systems. To view the original photograph, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk.
  • McCarthy Album 10, Photograph 380
    Caption: "Little girls who live in Mexico are always fully clothed but, this is not a little girl. OH! OH!" Image of a young boy in a small Mexican village. **PLEASE NOTE: The electronic image derived from Album 10, Photograph 380 of the William McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08-alb10-380) contains content that may not be appropriate for online distribution, and has therefore been withheld. The image has also been removed from the Secretary of State’s digital storage systems, including hard drives, shared drives, cloud and other online storage, and digital backup systems. To view the original photograph, please contact the California State Archives Reference Desk.