Real photo postcard of Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, Mexico, taken from a hillside overlook — a sea of red-tiled roofs and whitewashed walls tumbling down a steep mountainside to the domed silhouette and twin Churrigueresque towers of the Santa Prisca church. Built between 1751 and 1758 by silver baron José de la Borda — whose fortune from Taxco's mines inspired the local saying "Dios da a Borda, Borda da a Dios" — Santa Prisca remains the town's defining landmark. By the time this photograph was taken, Taxco had become a magnet for American travelers drawn by its colonial architecture and the silver workshops revived under expatriate designer William Spratling in the 1930s.

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