New to the Flickr Commons: Mexico, 1890-1910

1642. Seining in La Viga, near city of Mexico, 1890-1910, SIA2014-03153.

These photographs document the field work of explorer, naturalist, and science administrator, Edward William Nelson, and field naturalist and mammalogist, Edward Alphonso Goldman.  They worked for the US Biological Survey and collected in the field together for 14 years.  These photographs are a stunning look at Mexico during the turn of the twentieth century.  

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