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Photographs by Hugo Brehme.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents

One photograph bears Brehme's stamp and the others bear his notes on the verso, including one signed by him. Three of them are definitely railway related and show the line at El Pico de Orizaba from Alta Luz, one of them showing Mexican Railways train No. 2. The other four are of a more tourist nature: The Interior of one of the chapels in the Church of San Francisco, Tlaxcala Showing a Pulpit from which the Gospel was First Preached in New Spain; Fine View of the Church-Crowned Pyramid at Cholula; Prehistoric Sculptures at the Temple of Quetzalcoatl in Teotihuacan (Brehme's stamp on verso); and El Pico de Orizaba from Near Fortin—showing unpaved road with Mexican on a donkey in far distance (on verso "This picture is the property of Hugo Brehme, Mexico City; and if reproduced due acknowledgement of the fact must be made. Hugo Brehme."

Physical Description

Seven photographs (five are 5 x 6 ¾ inches and two are 4 ¾ x 7 5/8 inches)

Repository Details

Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository

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