A man and a woman beside the tomb of Thomas Mejia, San Fernado Cemetery, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910 (CHS-662)

A man and a woman beside the tomb of Thomas Mejia, San Fernado Cemetery, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910
Photograph of the tomb of Thomas Mejia, San Fernado Cemetery, Mexico City, Mexico, ca.1905-1910. A man and a woman are standing in front of the tombstone "T. Mejia, + Junio 19, 1867" in the cemetery crowded with tall grave markers. A gnarly tree grows to their right. A thick wire fence marks a square of ground in front of them. Legible signs include: "+ Restos de las seA+-oritas Pilar, Josefa y Luis, Camacho y Zulueta, R.I.P., trasladados, A! este lugar e[...] dia 6 de Mayo 1891", "Maria Loreto Pizar[...], de Camacho, Junio 11 de 1871".
Call number: CHS-662
Filename: CHS-662
Coverage date: circa 1905/1910
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Format: glass plate negatives
Microfiche number: 1-224-
Archival file: chs_Volume89/CHS-662.tiff
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Mexico City
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Subject (adlf): cemeteries
Geographic subject (country): Mexico
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 13 cm., 22 x 17 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Project: USC
Accession number: 662
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1905/1910
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Legacy record ID: chs-m14561; USC-1-1-1-14147
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Mexico -- Mexico City
Subject (lcsh): Cemeteries