[Crowded restaurant interior]

[Crowded restaurant interior]

Photograph

Marion Michelle

Maker
American, 1913–2007

[Crowded restaurant interior]

From American Tourists in Mexico


1941
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 × 9 1/16 in. (17.8 × 23 cm)
Gift of Mary Ittelson in memory of Marion Michelle Guyard, 2007
2007.2058.0012
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on verso, TLC: 8.
Stamped in blue on verso, TR: PHOTO MARION MICHELLE
Typed on applied label on verso, C: 8. Most American tourists land up at Sanborns or Lady Baltimre [sic] or \ Mrs. Thimgrens. The Mexico City Daily Bulletin [underlined], a mimeographed \ sheet in English carries this ad, "TOURIST TROUBLE! Diarrhea \ stopped in one treatment..." No vacation in Mexico is complete \ without it, and after one experience, the sadder and wiser tourists \ eschew tortillas and chili and dines on roast lamb and mashed \ potatoes for the rest of his stay in Mexico.
Newspaper clipping applied to verso, BC: PAGE 6 MEXICO CITY DAILY BULLETIN \ TOURIST'S TROUBLE \ DIARRHEA STOPPED IN ONE TREATMENT \ A SPECIAL THERAPY SUCCESSFUL IN TREATING INTES- \ TINAL DISORDERS (COMMONLY CALLED TOURIST'S TROU- \ BLE) CAUSED SOMETIMES BY CHANGE OF FOOD AND CLI- \ MATE. \ COLONIC IRRIGATIONS & GENERAL MEDICAL ATTENTION \ INSTITUTO FISIOTERAPIA \ 52 FLORENCE STREET. TEL: L 61-28
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