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Title
Mexican scene
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
United States Civil War
Rights Information
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Description
A street scene in Matamoros, Mexico, just across the border from Brownsville, Texas, showing a donkey with a load of firewood tied to its back. An older man in a hat is standing just behind the donkey's head. There is a building in the background with at least three sets of double doors, two of which are open.
Title from verso, which has a longer note reading "Taken in Matamoras Mex. A Mexican scene of rare beauty".
Extent
1 carte-de-visite
Identifier
mssHM 77750
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/140
Subject
Donkeys--Photographs
Fuelwood
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) (aat)
Place
Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico)
Source
Levi S. Graybill papers.
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library

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