WRPR 196: Latin American Landscapes in Literature, Visual Art, and Film

Map of North and South America

Map of Cuba and other Caribbean islands

Map of Mexico in 1579

Map of South America, colored

Photogravure images taken in the 1930s.

Photographs by Paul Strand, taken in Mexico in the 1930s.

Photograph by Edouard Boubat

1933 photograph by Anton Bruehl

Photograph by Bill Dane, 1975

Photograph by Bill Dane, 1975

Photograph by Bill Dane, 1975

Photograph by Bill Dane, 1975

1933 photograph by Anton Bruehl

Photograph by David Freese, 2009

1933 photograph by Anton Bruehl

Photograph by Doris Heyden, 1948

Photograph by Aaron Siskind, 1983

The photographs included in this travelogue document a trip to Mexico that took place between January 23 and March 16, 1937. The images are black and white, and the majority are accompanied by brief, hand-written notes and occasional commentary.