Pilgrims and vendors rest on the great ceremonial staircase leading to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe — Mexico's most sacred Catholic shrine — in this striking hand-colored pre-linen card from the early 1900s. A woman in a brilliant green skirt and rose-colored rebozo stands mid-stair, while a sombrero-wearing man sits at ease in the foreground; behind them, the dome of the old Basilica is just visible against a pale Technicolor sky. Published by "La Joyita" at 1ª San Francisco 14 in Mexico City, one of the most prolific early postcard publishers in the country, this card belongs to a popular tourist series that documented Mexican religious and indigenous life for foreign visitors during the Porfirian belle époque. The back is unused with the early pre-divided Tarjeta Postal / Carte Postale format, suggesting a date of circa 1900–1905.