Tucson, Arizona / For Mexico

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Tucson, Arizona / For Mexico Produced: 1920

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. View of town from high point, looking down main street - children playing in street, truck and pedestrian traffic - railroad track as seen from engine of train - view of town, hill and rock out-cropping in background - tourists enter ruins - close-ups of walls of ruin - hand holds postcard, ‘…Xavier Mission, Founded in 1693, Tucson, Arizona’ - views of mission - cathedral - views of pool in garden, tourists - elaborately carved facade of cathedral - dome atop building. [1920] b. President Obregon of Mexico - banquet - Obregon at banquet - President and Mrs. Obregon with group including a small boy - Mrs. Obregon with a gift chest of silver - man presents gift to President Obregon - pyramid in Mexico, tourists - tourists pose at base of pyramid - another pyramid - views of pyramid, tourists on top, and sides - men on high point looking out over valley - valley from high point, farms - looking down on ruin - looking down side of pyramid from top - man walks down steps - close-up of side of pyramid showing how rock was set - tourists descending stairs on side of pyramid - tourists at base of pyramid - Mexican guides on steps of pyramid - tourist descending stairs of pyramid - pyramid, tourists on top of pyramid, mounds of stone - two beasts’ heads, carved from stone, man sits on one - entrance to underground room - group poses with floral pieces - ruins of mission - loaded barge on canal, goes under footbridge - man in small scow, people at waters’ edge -views of shore with heavy tropical growth from passing boat - thatched roof of house - view of domed building from inside building, man closes iron gate, domed building through gate - building from courtyard - view of Mexico City from high point, domed cathedral - large building on hill, man and woman carrying child on her back in foreground - monument with three carved figures - monument with two groups of statues, one above the other - building, ‘Camara De Diputados’ - views of broad tree-lined boulevard from above, automobile traffic - panoramic view of city skyline - building with dome under construction - streetcar, pedestrian, automobile traffic seen from garden - group of Indian children poses - street with houses, pedestrians, watering trough - mule-drawn streetcars on country road. [1920]

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