This tourist map was drawn by Miguel Gómez Medina and published by Margaret M. Crane and Eugenio Fischgrund around 1930.
This is a map of Mexico in which Miguel Gómez's drawings highlight the distinctive features of the different regions. It was used as a tourist map for foreign visitors and distributed in various hotels and restaurants in Mexico City from the early 1930s onwards. This version is in Spanish, although English versions were also printed for American tourists.
The illustration highlights Mexico's history and culture, as shown in the images at the bottom left. Vertically, five images trace the most important moments in Mexican history: the founding, the conquest, the colonial period, independence, and modern Mexico (from 1930). Horizontally, some of the most relevant cultural features of the country at that time appear: the Virgin of Guadalupe, Xochimilco, rodeo, cockfighting, bullfighting, and the jarabe tapatío dance.
The map also extols Mexico to the point of bordering on propaganda. This is most evident in the upper right corner, where Mexico is depicted as the most important and interesting of all the new states that were once part of the Spanish Colonial Empire.
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