A typical street in San Miguel Allende, at first a village founded
around 1540, named after patron saint San Miguel. Two centuries
later, as a town, the people added the name Allende, local hero of
the fight for independence from Spain. Today it is renowned for. its
Instituto de Allende, where many come from Canada and the U.S.
to study the arts.

As if symbolizing a monument to the unfinish-
a Job of the- Mexican revolution, this Indian
poner and child (at left) stand in front of one
the squalid hovels that line the railroad tracks

Cj Cne enters the cutskirts cf beautiful Mexico

ae Avrom saw this early in the morning while
nN Nelling from Guadajara on the regular over-
‘ght with the common people, instead of using
“© Posh Pullman, like other tourists.

This Indian woman is charac-
teristic of her people. The wrin-
kles tell not only of age, but of
a hard life of struggle.

Famed artist Pablo O'Higgins, sketched laying in the preliminary
drawing on a mural in the new anthropology museum in Chapul-
-tepec Park, Mexico City. Though uncompleted, the museum was
cpened Sept. 17 by outgoing President Mateos Lopez. -

Many of the trees in Chapultepec Park (Mexico City) are over
1,000 years old. Here is one of the Mexicans employed to keep the
park in shape, cutting the tall grass.

Sketched from the bus en route to Cuernavaca, these charac-
teristic, square-topped mountains remind one of the Myran pyramids.
Did these shapes influence the design of the Indians?

Sunday in Cuernavaca. In 1530, Hernan Cortes built a palace
here. Now the town is famous for a Rivera painting of Indian life
under the Spaniards, and the 1910 revolution led by Zapata.

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