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Mexico as I saw it / by Mrs. Alec Tweedie (née Harley). Illustrated from photographs by the author.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7689
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel), 1862-1940, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexico--Description and travel.
- Mexico.
- Travel.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7688) (Schimmel 7689)
- Physical Description:
- 480 pages : plates, portrait, map, facsimile ; 16 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1911]
- Summary:
- The author was a travel writer, biographer, historian, journalist, editor, photographer and artist, and also wrote under the name of Ethel B. Harley.
- Contents:
- One of the disasters of the world
- Life on a Mexican ranche [sic]
- A horse round-up
- Life on a private car
- A peep at a cock-fight
- How I was the first passenger on the newest railway in Mexico
- Celebration of the Great Saint of Guadalupe
- General Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico
- Mexican society
- A glance at Mexican history
- Is a bull-fight cruel?
- Christmas customs and Madame Diaz' Posada
- Odds and ends
- The new century
- Guadalajara
- The Emperor Maximilian and Empress Carlotta
- Tampico Canon on an engine
- How the governor of a Mexican state entertained an Englishwoman
- Aztec ruins of Xochicalco
- One of the wonders of the world
- Life on a Southern hacienda
- An interesting trip to Oaxaca
- Ancient ruins of Mitla
- Rivers in the tropics
- The Isthmus of Tehuantepec
- Diaz, the maker of modern Mexico.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 7688: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Caroline F. Schimmel bookplate on front pastedown. Ink inscription and author's autograph on half title: Mrs. Body with the writer's compliments, E Alec Tweedie. Pictorial binding.
- Schimmel 7689: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- OCLC:
- 1868427
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