Book/Printed Material Letters from Mexico
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Image 1 of Letters from Mexico- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 2 of Letters from Mexico SASSI le Caseig- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 3 of Letters from Mexico CC THE GIFT OF 2 LESSING J ROSENWALD TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 4 of Letters from Mexico- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 5 of Letters from Mexico- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 6 of Letters from Mexico- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 7 of Letters from Mexico- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 8 of Letters from Mexico- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 9 of Letters from Mexico- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 10 of Letters from Mexico LETTERS FROM MEXICO ELISE S HAAS 1937 PRIVATELY PRINTED SAN FRANCISCO- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 11 of Letters from Mexico- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 12 of Letters from Mexico LETTER ONE EN ROUTE DEAR C ERE we are drifting down the Pacific little white crested waves breaking the deep blue of the water glistening fish leaping about us and the mountainous…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 13 of Letters from Mexico eight girls he was taking to the Atlantic Cafe in Panama put on a show Or said they would âbut drinks were the start and finish of their act Atabout one oclock…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 14 of Letters from Mexico leader âNext time you rent a car see you get a union driver Now scramâ Land of the free Boiling with helpless fury we drove to the town and finally found a…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 15 of Letters from Mexico LETTER TWO ACAPULCO DEAR C FTER four days of fun sun and good sailing we left our ship at Acapulco scorched little tropical seaport founded soon after the Conquest Its snugly hid…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 16 of Letters from Mexico Hotel Mirador This delightful inn is perched on a clift overlooking the blue blue Pacific The office is in the open the diningroom down several flights of steps is sheltered only by…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 17 of Letters from Mexico so trivial does matter in this delightful land What a lesson we hurrying scurrying Americans can learn from the leis urely Mexican and how many tired strained faces could be smoothed into…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 18 of Letters from Mexico LETTER THREE TAXCO DEAR C O sooner had I fallen asleepâor so it seemed â than an energetic pounding on the door and unin telligible words routed me out of bed Of…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 19 of Letters from Mexico the road made a kodak imperative Many of them were hardly more than four poles topped by a thatch of palm leaves and they seemed poor shelter indeed in the rainy season…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 20 of Letters from Mexico Mexico His motto was âGod gives to Borda and Borda gives to Godâ but I suspect that the Almighty came out on the short end The beauty of Taxco makes one want…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 21 of Letters from Mexico The day would not have been complete without a ze quilalimonada at Doha Bertaâs cantina and a visit to the market where we bought shoes â there are better ones at Cuernavaca…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 22 of Letters from Mexico LETTER FOUR Mexico DF DEAR C S we bade Taxco a reluctant farewell I wondered whether the fountain near the plaza had the same magic qualities as the Fountain of Trevi in…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 23 of Letters from Mexico To me these frescoes are among the finest of Riveras work that I have seen so far and are only excelled by two or three panels in the Ministry of Public Education…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 24 of Letters from Mexico We finally tore ourselves away and drove to El Retiro where everyone lunches before the bullfight At quarter to four the restaurant emptied itself a bullfight is the one event that starts…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 25 of Letters from Mexico with black caps atop their pigtailed heads No wonder the populace idolizes them as we do our movie stars They are colorful and dramatic figures The procession overand the ladies ensconced in…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 26 of Letters from Mexico and jeered at the picadoresâ clumsiness A trumpet blast ended this scene and now it was the turn of the bander illero He must drive six gailydecorated darts a pair ata time…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 27 of Letters from Mexico great skill and daring Followed by his matadores he strutted around the ring and a foreroâs strut is some thing to see while men and women rained flowers furs and hats upon…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 28 of Letters from Mexico LETTER FIVE Mexico DF DEAR C MPRESSIONS crowd so thick and fast that I cannot absorb them all and still less convey them to you Mexico City is not greatly to my…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 29 of Letters from Mexico perched on the very last inch of the burroâs rump but the woman always walks suckling her baby as she goes or carrying it slung over her back in her rebozo that…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 30 of Letters from Mexico bump along the dusty rough road Exchange of smiles and greetings as we passed and repassed each other Crowds of Indians were on their way to Tianquistenco for market day The market…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 31 of Letters from Mexico que a drink containing the necessary vitamines to bal ance their starch diet When distilled pulque becomes tequila a favorite drink in the city bars or mescala highly alcoholic beverage that it…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 32 of Letters from Mexico her bearing had dignity and authority and the courtesy of the truly great When we left she said in Spanishâ My home is on the Street of Flowers It is at your…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 33 of Letters from Mexico LETTER SIX Mexico DF DEAR C ODAY was one of contrasts â pagan pyramids Christian churches But perhaps their story is not so much of contrast as of compromise The Spanish pad…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 34 of Letters from Mexico of gold appeared to Juan Diego a humble Indian as he was hurrying to mass in Mexico City âGo hzjo mio to the Bishopâ She said âand say I would have him…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 35 of Letters from Mexico for safekeeping Twenty years later a converted Indian cacigue found her and placing her on the altar of his house he worshipped her as the Aztec goddess of water But the image…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 36 of Letters from Mexico rays would strike a portion of it on a given day and at a given season of the yearâ says my guidebook The Tem ple of Quetzalcoatl the Plumed Serpent with its…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 37 of Letters from Mexico But itis late and we have promised to join some friends at âEl Grillonâ a nightclubalâ Americain Another con trast Did I come to Mexico to spin to American jazz At least…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 38 of Letters from Mexico LETTER SEVEN PueBLA DEAR C E left Mexico City early yesterday morning in an ancient car which sounded suspiciously con sumptive bound for the old Spanish city of Puebla de Los Angeles…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 39 of Letters from Mexico its tracks What to do Miss A fluttery and completely unnerved by this unscheduled occurrence wanted to tel ephone to Mexico City for another carâbut that we felt would have meanta delay…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
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Image 40 of Letters from Mexico Indian temple he destroyed and certainly he kept his promise in this green valley whose verdant stretches are dotted everywhere with flashing domes Popo and the Sleeping Woman were to the West…- Contributor: Haas, Elise S. - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Grabhorn Press - Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1937
About this Item
Title
- Letters from Mexico
Names
- Haas, Elise S., 1893-1990
- Grabhorn Press
- Press Collection (Library of Congress)
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- San Francisco, Priv. print., 1937.
Headings
- - Haas, Elise S.,--1893-1990
- - Mexico--Description and travel
Notes
- - "Seventy-five copies printed at the Grabhorn Press."
- - LC copy: purchase, Archer M. Huntington Fund, 1940.
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2345
- - LAC ael 2019-06-13 update (1 card)
- - LAC ddw 2022-05-17 update (1 card)
Medium
- 1 p.l., 37, [1] p., 1 l. 25 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F1215 .H13
- F1215 .H13 Copy 2 Rosenwald collection item 2345.
Repository
- e-RareCol Electronic Resource
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 40029952
OCLC Number
- 9939725
Online Format
- online text
- image
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Contributor
- Grabhorn Press
- Haas, Elise S.
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Press Collection (Library of Congress)