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  Rural scenes

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  Photographs depict people on village streets; a sugar production facility, with cones of sugar (Item 571); men with animals by railroad tracks and on a railroad platform in Zacatecas; and people waiting for a streetcar.

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  Colorado Street, Pasadena, Cal

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  View of Colorado Street (now Colorado Boulevard), in Pasadena, showing buildings, storefronts and automobiles. A streetcar is coming onto the street from a cross street, at left. Some of the businesses seen are "The Belmont," "Central Hotel," "Owl Drug Co.," a barber pole, market, and liquor store. A sign for "Route 66" is on pole at right. Flags and banners hang over the street - one says "Southern Methodist University."

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  Markets

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  Contains photographs depicting various markets including the Flower Market, with people and elaborate wreaths (Items 395-406); the Thieves' Market, with wares spread out on the plaza and images of sellers (Items 417-421); San Juan Market and the Market at San Cosme (Items 426-427); and the market at Viga Canal, featuring marketgoers among sellers in boats loaded with produce (Items 433-459).

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  Photograph album of street peddlers in Mexican towns

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  A small album containing 14 carte de visite-size photographs of street vendors in Mexico. The first page has a handwritten title: "Street Peddlars in Mexican Towns / A collection of 13 Old Photographs 1850 to 1860-," and the following pages have mounted albumen photographs with handwritten captions. Most portraits were taken in a studio, and they include both men and women carrying large amounts of goods or other items related to their work. Image captions are: Charcoal seller; Selling lottery tickets on Sunday; Indian selling baskets (male); Indian pottery seller; Palm leaf peddler; Birdcage peddler; Charcoal man; Indian with band of wood, in the village of Batopela [i.e. Batopilas, Chihuahua]; Indian selling wooden trays; Cargadora; Water carrier; Selling baskets; Indian peddling turkeys; Indian selling mats.

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  The Grand Hotel, Market Street and New Montgomery, San Francisco

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  Image of the Grand Hotel on the corner of Market Street and New Montgomery Street in San Francisco, with horse drawn wagons and a streetcar in front.

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  Various towns and regions

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  Photographs depict a church and people in Juarez (Items 588-594); a market and alameda in Toluca (Items 595-600); views of Guadalupe and one of Guadalajara; also depictions of interiors of the Shrine of Guadalupe in Mexico City (Items 601-617); Teotihuacan, including trips to the Pyramid of the Moon and the Pyramid of the Sun, featuring people on trails and at the pyramids, excavation sites, and a tour guide (Items 618-656); a place identified in captions a "Sant' Angel" and also as "S Angel," possibly referring to San Ángel in Mexico City (Items 657-658); and images of Tacubaya, with depictions of the Day of the Dead and of Judas images (Items 679-695). Images also include depictions of people and sites in other towns including a church interior with Christmas decorations and indigenous people's huts in Vera Cruz (696-698, 700); a prison on an island of San Juan de Ulua opposite Santa Cruz (Item 699); jewelry and market stalls and a convent in Texcoco (Items 700-703); scenes in Tlaxcala, including the oldest pulpit in America in a church there and market scenes (Items 704-708); a plaza and fisher's hut in Patzcuaro (709-710); and scenes of church yards, markets, a public laundry, and a feast day in Azcapotzalco, Chalco, Cuernavaca, Coyoacan, Jalapa, Tacuba, and Mitla (Items 711-720).

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