Postcards
This index lists posts relating to postcards, including their photographers and publishers. This list continues to grow, so watch this space! (Last update: 2 March 2025)
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!
- Foto Esmeralda (Demetrio Padilla López and José Cruz Padilla Sánchez)
- Dwight Rodgers Furness (1892-1960)
- Manuel Garay / Ediciones FEMA
- Librado V. García (“Smarth”) (1892-?)
- Jesús González Miranda (1898-1995)
- 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)
- Demetrio Padilla López (father) (1899-1989)
- José Cruz Padilla Sánchez (son) (1933-2005)
- Ruhland & Ahlschier (Emil Ruhland and Max Ahlschier)
- Demetrio Sánchez Ortega (1898-1979)
- José Edmundo Sánchez (c 1888-1933)
- Winfield Scott (1863–1942)
- Jacques Van Belle (1923-2012)
- Charles Betts Waite (1861-1927)
- Mauricio Yáñez (1882-1939)
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My book Lake Chapala: A Postcard History (2022) uses reproductions of more than 150 vintage postcards to tell the incredible story of how Lake Chapala became an international tourist and retirement center.
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