c. 1904Mexico City
Metropolitan Cathedral, Mexico City
Detroit Publishing Company.
Street photograph
c. 1904·Mexico City
Metropolitan Cathedral, Mexico City
Detroit Publishing Company.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
The cathedral’s west front photographed from the square: towers, portal, a tram in the street, a city using the building. Period photograph, not an engraving. Present status: surviving. Where nothing violent happened to the fabric in the years this archive covers, the database keeps that fact.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Catedral Metropolitana de la Asunción de María
- Region
- Latin America
- Documented completion
- 1813 (on a site occupied since the 1570s).
- Architect
- Multiple; Claudio de Arciniega among the earliest.
- Present status
- Surviving — The cathedral still stands on the Zócalo. Nothing in this plate is a later reconstruction pretending to be 1904.
- Source
- Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing, 4a03445.
- License
- Public domain.