[American tourists at outdoor Mexican market]
Photograph
[American tourists at outdoor Mexican market]
From American Tourists in Mexico
1941
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/16 × 9 in. (16.1 × 22.9 cm)
Gift of Mary Ittelson in memory of Marion Michelle Guyard, 2007
2007.2058.0014
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on verso, TLC: 12.
Typed on applied label on verso, C: 2. Every tourist is allowed to take $100 worth of merchandise \ out of Mexico duty free. Unless they buy much of the more expensive \ items of Taxco silver, most of them return, laden with gifts and \ souveniers [sic] which seldom exceed the $100 quota. Few tourists \ return without have acquired at least one serape for which they \ pay from ten to thirty pesos depending upon how well they bargain \ as much as on the quality of the article. The great Friday \ market at Toluca is a favorite with the American tourist seeking \ baskets and serapes. Native Mexicans literally have to battle \ their way through the swarms of tourists in order to get their \ ten centavos of chile and a kilo of beans.
Printed in red and blue on applied label, BC: CAUTION \ License to reproduce this photograph, on which a copyright \ is pending, will be granted upon acceptance of the terms quoted. \ If purchased it is for your publication only, and must not be \ syndicated, rented, loaned or used for advertising purposes \ without written permission. \ CREDIT MUST READ: PHOTO \ FROM EUROPEAN
Stamped in blue on verso, BR: PHOTO MARION MICHELLE
Typed on applied label on verso, C: 2. Every tourist is allowed to take $100 worth of merchandise \ out of Mexico duty free. Unless they buy much of the more expensive \ items of Taxco silver, most of them return, laden with gifts and \ souveniers [sic] which seldom exceed the $100 quota. Few tourists \ return without have acquired at least one serape for which they \ pay from ten to thirty pesos depending upon how well they bargain \ as much as on the quality of the article. The great Friday \ market at Toluca is a favorite with the American tourist seeking \ baskets and serapes. Native Mexicans literally have to battle \ their way through the swarms of tourists in order to get their \ ten centavos of chile and a kilo of beans.
Printed in red and blue on applied label, BC: CAUTION \ License to reproduce this photograph, on which a copyright \ is pending, will be granted upon acceptance of the terms quoted. \ If purchased it is for your publication only, and must not be \ syndicated, rented, loaned or used for advertising purposes \ without written permission. \ CREDIT MUST READ: PHOTO \ FROM EUROPEAN
Stamped in blue on verso, BR: PHOTO MARION MICHELLE
