[Franklin travel albums: Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico]
Bound volume
[Franklin travel albums: Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico]
ca. 1903
Bound volume with gelatin silver prints
Overall: 10 5/8 × 12 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (27 × 32 × 4.5 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Fowler, 1979
1980.0801.001-134
Inscriptions [handwritten captions in white ink under each photograph]
TextLike many middle class women of her era, Mrs. Spencer Franklin compiled and annotated four albums of snapshots made by her husband during their extended travels in Mexico. Many of the photographs picture scenes typically sought out by tourists from the United States, such as the ruins of Chichén Itzá, Mitla, and Uxmal, Mexican haciendas, and markets crowded with indigenous people selling their wares. More unexpected were photographs made on November 21 and 22, 1903, when the Franklins experienced the unpredictability of Mexico’s only active volcano, the Volcán de Colima.
