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[Philately]
RAMIREZ, Lauro F. (Photographer, Compiler)
FOTO-DOCUMENTAL DE UN VIAJE A EUROPA
EN OCASION DEL XII CONGRESO POSTAL UNIVERSAL 1947
[Interior Title]. [Original Photograph Album]
[Mexico City], 1947
Oblong 4to. Red string-tied leather album with decorative stitching
to edges. 47 black paper leaves with 322 photographs recto and verso
mounted (302 black-and-white snapshots; eighteen color snapshot;
two black-and-white enlargements). Original penned map illustration
to title page, majority of pages with holograph Spanish language captions
in white. Well preserved, generally near fine.
A substantial album of photographs documenting the travels of the
Mexican delegation to the 1947 Universal Postal Union Congress, held
in Paris and compiled by delegate Lauro F. Ramirez. A notated series
of four prints cover the Congress' proceedings, though most images
capture the group's travels with clear, well composed views of New
York, Paris, Loire, Amsterdam, Cannes, Monaco, Pisa, Washington D.C.,
and Mexico City. Highlights include the artful title page (below),
enlarged aerial view of Mexico City, and many European landmarks.
The 1947 meeting of the Universal Postal Union, founded in 1870 as an
international treaty organization to help standardize international
postal delivery, was one of the most significant in the organization's
history, establishing it as a specialized agency of The United
Nations. A well-preserved and extensive travel album with connections
to Latin America and an international postal treaty.
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