Monumental and austere, the Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City looms against a bright sky in this crisp real-photo postcard — its massive Art Deco triumphal arch, topped by a ribbed copper dome and flanked by four heroic sculptural groups representing Reform Laws, Independence, Agrarian Laws, and Labor Laws, presides over a young formal garden of pencil-thin cypress trees just beginning to grow into their dignity, a detail that helps date this photograph to the early-to-mid 1940s, shortly after the monument's completion in 1938. The RPPC format — a genuine photographic print on postcard stock, bearing the "Tarjeta Postal / Sello" imprint on an otherwise blank back — gives this image unusual sharpness and tonal depth compared to lithographic equivalents, making it a small documentary photograph of one of the Western Hemisphere's largest Art Deco monuments in its earliest public years. Numbered "22" in the series, it was never mailed, preserved in collector-grade condition with only minor edge marks.