Postcards

This index lists posts relating to postcards, including their photographers and publishers. This list continues to grow, so watch this space! (Last update: 8 September 2024)

Miscellaneous (includes non-postcard images)

• Who took this evocative 1935 photo of Lake Chapala?
• Chapala Wishful Thinking #1: People on the beach at Chapala?
• Chapala Wishful Thinking #2: Chapala in the old days?
• Chapala Wishful Thinking #3: Fishing fleet?
• Tony Burton: My first glimpses of Lake Chapala (1980).
• Dating early photos of Chapala stagecoaches (diligencias).
• Sumner W Matteson and his 1907 photographs of Lake Chapala.
• Ajijic’s Cerro del Aguila: the story of the Ajijic Eagle.

Postcard photographers and publishers

• Jesús Hermenegildo Abitia (1881-1960) and Casa Abitia
• Ahlschier – see Ruhland & Ahlschier
• Andrade (?-?)
• S. Altamirano (?-?)
• Juan Victor Aráuz Gutiérrez (1914-2000)
• Juan Aráuz Lomeli (c 1887-1970)
• Hugo Brehme (1882-1954)
• Abel Briquet (1833-1926) and an early photograph of Lake Chapala? We stand corrected!
• Manuel Garay / Ediciones FEMA
• Jakob Granat (1871-1945)
• Juan Kaiser (1858-1916)
  • Chapala market = El Salto market
  • Bertha Kaiser (?-1948) – diary excerpts, Chapala 1912-1922
• Jacob Kalb and Iturbide Curio Store
• La Joyita
• José María Lupercio (1870-1929)
• Pedro Magallanes (1863-1928)
• Luis Márquez Romay (1899-1978)
• F. Martín (?-?)
• México Fotográfico
• Antonio Mólgora (father) (1877-1927)
• Antonio Mólgora Espinosa (son) (1901-1981)
• Ruhland & Ahlschier (Emil Ruhland and Max Ahlschier)
• Demetrio Sánchez Ortega (1898-1979)
• Winfield Scott (1863–1942)
  • Who gets the credit? Winfield Scott or Charles Betts Waite?
• Jacques Van Belle (1923-2012)
• Charles Betts Waite (1861-1927)
  • Who gets the credit? Winfield Scott or Charles Betts Waite?
• Mauricio Yáñez (1882-1939)

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