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SUPER JOB-LOT OF REAL PHOTO POSTCARDS
MEXICO / MEXICAN
SEE PHOTOGRAPHS
(11) ELEVEN IN ALL
RANGING IN THEME AND DATES.
SOME HAVE BEEN USED OTHERS ARE UNUSED.
KODAK MEXICANA LTD
AGED PAPER EPHEMERA
RARE! SCARCE! PERISHABLE!
"48 CATHEDRAL, MONTERREY, N.L. MEXICO"
"115 PALACIO FEDRAL, MONTERREY, N.L." (SEE CLOSE UP OF SOME 8 PERIOD VEHICLES, ADVERTISING, AND ART DECO BUIDLING DESIGN)
"79 MERENDERO LA HAUSTECA" (SEE 2 PERIOD AUTOS, COCA COLA, LOCAL GROCERY MARKET SET DEEP IN THE MOUNTAINS)
"237 LA HAUSTECAN" (COLOR TINTED SHOWS A NATIVE RIDING A BURRO OR HORSE THROUGH A CANYON) (1934 STAMP, ALSO HAS WRITING: 9-9-41 ARRIVED HERE THIS AFTERNOON AND SPENT $25 MEXICAN MONEY. $5.50 AMERICAN MONEY. EXPECT TO GO SIGHT SEEING... LOVE FLORA, TO: MRS BECH & FAMILY, NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA)
"186 --- (TITLE IS DIFFICULT TO DECIPHER)" IT DEPICTS A MARIACHI BAND PLAYING OUT IN A FIELD. A LARGE MOUNTAIN RANGE BEHIND THEM WITH VARIOUS BUILDINGS. (CUSTOM GARB / CLOTHING / COSTUME)
THESE CARDS HAVE A SHEEN TO THEM LIKE HAND TINTING BUT MORE LIKE POLYCHROME SILVERING...
(2) TICHNOR QUALITY VIEWS MANUFACTURED BY BOSTON. DEPICTS CERVECIA CUAUHTEMOC, S.A. MONTERREY MEX. (HOME OF THE FAMOUS CARTA BLANCA AND BOHEMIA BEERS) 9ONE CARD MAY HAVE BEEN AUTOGRAPH BY A PARTY OF THE BREWERY - (FELIX CARDENAS HINOJOSA)
(1) TARJETA POSTAL VISTACOLOR LITO EN MEXICO, AMMEX ASOCIADOS. VIEW DEPICTS PUESTA DEL SOL, BAHIA DE ACAPULCO, SUNSET. PHOT BY MARK TUROK. CARD HAS WRITING FROM 3/15/67.
(1) ARTICULOUS FOTOGRAFICOS VALDEZ, GUANAJUATO. DEPICTS MOTEL GUANAJUATO WITH LATE MODEL PICK UP TRUCK. DATED 9/24/71
(1) IMPRESORA DEL NORTE, DEPICTS HOTEL PLAYA DE MAZATLAN VISTA PARCIAL DE LA PLAYA PRIVADA PRIVATE BEACH. DATED 12/2/70.
(1) MEXICO FOTOGRAFICO APARTADO MEXFOTOCOLOR. DEPICTS ARCO COLONIAL DE SAN JUAN. ARCH. DATED 5/14/72.
IN GOOD TO VERY GOOD CONDITION
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FYI
The United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos), or simply Mexico, is a country located in North America. It is bounded on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. The United Mexican States comprise a constitutional republican federation of thirty-one states and a federal district, Mexico City, one of the most populous cities on Earth.
Covering almost 2 million square kilometers, Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and 14th largest in the world. With a population of almost 109 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world.
As the only Latin American member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 1994, Mexico is firmly established as an upper middle-income country. Elections held in July 2000 marked the first time that an opposition party won the presidency to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional: PRI), that held it since 1929, culminating a process of political alternation that had begun at the local level since the 1980s.
After the independence of the vice-royalty of New Spain it was decided that the country was to be named after its capital city, whose original name of foundation was Mexico-Tenochtitlan, in reference to the name of the Nahua Aztec tribe, the Mexica. The origin of the name of the tribe is rather obscure. The Jesuit and historian Francisco Javier Clavijero argues in his writings that it derives from the Nahuatl word Mexitl or Mexitli, a secret name for the god of war and patron of the Mexica, Huitzilopochtli, in which case "Mexico" means "Place where Mexitl lives" or in other precise words: "Place where Mexitli temple is built" in reference to the Templo Mayor ("Great Temple"), this version is also held by Fray Juan de Torquemada; but Torquemada adds that Mexitli comes from the words metl ("agave"), xictli ("navel") and the early settlers took for themselves this name and they were called Mexicatl, this word finally derived in "Mexico", then, according to this version, it would mean: "People of Mexitli" or more literally: "Place in the navel of agave"; this last version is also supported by Fray Motolinia. Other historians like Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, Jose de Acosta, Fray Diego Duran, Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas say in their works that "Mexico" comes from Mecitl or Mexi, which was the name of a leader and priest who guided the early pilgrims, these people were called Mexica, and therefore, this word means "People of Mexi". This leader Mexi, sometimes is also called Mexitl, but it should not be confused with the god Mexitli. Some experts like Alfonso Caso suggested that it derives from the words metztli ("moon"), xictli ("navel", "center", "middle" or "son"), and the suffix -co ("place"), thus it means "Place at the middle of the moon" or "Place at the center of the Lake Moon", in reference to Lake Texcoco at the middle of which Mexico City was built. This version is based on an Aztec legend which says that when the Mexicas arrived first time to Lake Texcoco, they saw the moon reflected on it.
The name of the city was transliterated to Spanish as México with the phonetic value of the x in Medieval Spanish, which represented the voiceless postalveolar fricative. This sound, as well as the voiced postalveolar fricative, represented by a j, evolved into a voiceless velar fricative during the sixteenth century, which led to the use of the variant Méjico in many publications, most notably in Spain, whereas in Mexico, México was the preferred spelling. In recent years the Real Academia Española, the institution that regulates the Spanish language, determined that the normative recommended spelling in Spanish is México, and the majority of publications in all Spanish-speaking countries now adhere to the new normative, even though the disused variant is still occasionally found. In English, the x in Mexico represents neither the original nor the current sound, but the consonant cluster /ks/.
The United Mexican States are a federated union of thirty-one free and sovereign states which form a Union that exercises jurisdiction over the Federal District and other territories. Each state has its own constitution and congress, as well as a judiciary, and its citizens elect by direct voting, a governor (gobernador) for a six-year term, as well as representatives (diputados locales) to their respective state congresses, for three-year terms. The 31 states and the Federal District are collectively called "federal entities", and all are equally represented in the Congress of the Union.
Mexican states are also divided into municipalities (municipios), the smallest official political entity in the country, governed by a mayor or "municipal president" (presidente municipal), elected by its residents by plurality. Municipalities can be further subdivided into non-autonomous boroughs or in semi-autonomous auxiliary presidencies.
Constitutionally, Mexico City, as the capital of the federation and seat of the powers of the Union, is the Federal District, a special political division in Mexico that belongs to the federation as a whole and not to a particular state, and as such, has more limited local rule than the nation's states. Nonetheless, since 1987 it has progressively gained a greater degree of autonomy, and residents now elect a head of government (Jefe de Gobierno) and representatives of a Legislative Assembly directly. Unlike the states, the Federal District does not have a constitution but a statute of government. Mexico City is conterminous and coextensive with the Federal District.
Mexico has a free market economy, and is firmly established as an upper middle-income country, and it is the 12th largest economy in the world as measured in Gross Domestic Product in purchasing power parity. After the 1994 economic debacle, Mexico has made an impressive recovery, building a modern and diversified economy. Recent administrations have also improved infrastructure and opened competition in seaports, railroads, telecommunications, electricity generation, natural gas distribution and airports. Oil is Mexico's largest source of foreign income.
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