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Postcard 1930 Lindbergh Cuernavaca Mexico Anne Morrow Cortejo Linen Color
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Pre-linen · 1930

Postcard 1930 Lindbergh Cuernavaca Mexico Anne Morrow Cortejo Linen Color

Cuernavaca, Mexico1930Pre-linenFair-Good

One of the most romantically charged postal artifacts of the Jazz Age — a vivid hand-colored Mexican postcard commemorating the courtship of Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow in the mountains above Cuernavaca, where a mule-drawn carriage attended by a mounted cavalry escort winds along a primitive colonial road; the scene is at once picturesque and historically electrifying, capturing the moment America's most famous aviator rode in old-world style to woo the ambassador's daughter. The caption reads "Transportacion Primitiva en Cuernavaca, Donde el Coronel Lindbergh Cortejo a Miss Anne Morrow." On the reverse, a sender named Ed dashes off a breezy note to Elizabeth in Long Island and Hastings-on-Hudson, New York: he mentions "The Commander" celebrating at the mines, the natural beauty of mountains and desert, and delivers one of philately's more charming asides — "If anyone offers you a ride in a Studebaker Free Wheeler, take it and learn something new about automobiles." The Mexico City D.F. postmark reads 19–20 July 1930, the stamp a Mexican 2-centavo red definitive, and the machine cancel promotes domestic industry: "Consumiendo Artículos Nacionales Ayudas a la Industria y al País."

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PC-02651 · Unknown Mexican publisher
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