- Hotel Bristol y Sonora - gonzaloh
- "La Alameda" - gmg_660
- Equestrian statue of Charles IV. "El caballito" - gmg_660
- This is very probably the Alberto Braniff´s balloon, short after taking off, on the Sunday, January 25, 1914 or on the Saturday, January 31, 1914... - Anzor
- Paseo de la Reforma avenue. - Anzor
- www.flickr.com/photos/anzor/3183695127/
www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162707307/ - Anzor - www.flickr.com/photos/anzor/3184606144/
www.flickr.com/photos/anzor/3184654600/ - Anzor - En la actualidad, aquí se ubica la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. - jazzraul
Juarez Ave., City of Mexico (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Juarez Ave., City of Mexico
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
City of Mexico
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10232
Call Number: LC-B2- 2377-3
Comments and faves
Omegar, Defenestrated (EG), laap mx, jf laborde, and centralsur added this photo to their favorites.
centralsur (54 months ago | reply)
This must be circa 1890.
ciriaco added this photo to his favorites. (50 months ago)
Anzor (50 months ago | reply)
Between 1910 and 1915 took place only two manned free balloon flights in Mexico City, both in early 1914:
On the Sunday, January 25, the mexican aviation pioneer Alberto Braniff Ricard (1885-1966) and the french technician Jules Dubois flew on a 2,200 m3 Gordon Bennett hydrogen-filled balloon just brought from France by Braniff himself. They took off from a Braniff's plot beside the former Colonia Railway Station (Estación Colonia) near the Paseo de la Reforma avenue (the balloon in the photograph seems to be above this place).
As a Braniff´s guest were aboard the legendary mexican ballooning pioneer Joaquín de la Cantolla y Rico (1829-1914), at that time already an elder man, who would die three days later.
The second flight took off on the Saturday, January 31, in the same place and on the same Gordon Bennett balloon manned by Braniff and Dubois.
Alberto Braniff short biographies:
www.jorgecornish.com/Braniff.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Braniff
A photograph showing Alberto Braniff in the company of Pascual Orozco, Francisco Villa and Giuseppe Garibaldi (grandson of the italian hero):
www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/216 2707307/
www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=22081 777
Braniff´s balloon taking off from the vicinity of the former Colonia Railway Station (photograph):
img162.imageshack.us/my.php?image=volar05ht1. jpg
Braniff´s balloon taking off as was seen from the Cuauhtémoc Memorial (photograph):
www.jorgecornish.com/images/Braniff_8.jpg
From left to right: Cantolla, Braniff and Dubois aboard on the Alberto Braniff's balloon basket (photograph):
img162.imageshack.us/my.php?image=volar04av5. jpg
Joaquín de la Cantolla inaccurate short biographies (in spanish):
www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/notas/3843-En-ti empos-de-Can...
www.uaq.mx/fcps/tribuna/343/opi07.htm
Book review on a novel about Cantolla (in spanish):
www.proscritos.com/larevista/notas.asp?num=51 &d=t&...
Anzor added this photo to his favorites. (49 months ago)
Ex- Príncipe de los Cuentos (46 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Tenochtitlán Siglo XXI (Ciudad de México), and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Jorge Montanaro, Scott James 67, mexican american historical society, ¡MAYA!, and 6 other people added this photo to their favorites.