Sepia real photo postcard of Taxco, Mexico, framed through the bare branches of foreground trees — the hillside silver town's whitewashed houses tumbling down the slope toward the twin Baroque towers of the Santa Prisca church. Taxco de Alarcón, in the mountains of Guerrero, was Mexico's great colonial silver town; the Santa Prisca church was built in the 1750s, financed by the fortune of silver baron José de la Borda. After American silversmith William Spratling revived the town's silver trade in the 1930s, Taxco became a magnet for U.S. tourists and artists, and souvenir real photo postcards like this one were sold to travelers taking in the view from the surrounding hills.

• Inscription: "Taxco, Mex." (handwritten, verso)
• Status: Unposted