Shot from inside the arch of a low stone bridge, the lens looks out across the flower-fringed canals of Xochimilco — the ancient Aztec "floating gardens" south of Mexico City — where a gondolier poles his trajinera through jade-green water while distant boats drift in dappled light beyond the arch. This real-photo postcard (RPPC), numbered 97 in a Mexico tourism series, captures the ethereal, almost otherworldly atmosphere of Xochimilco that made it a magnet for artists and tourists throughout the 1930s. Mailed August 7, 1935 (postmarked Mexico City) with a 4-centavo Mexican stamp to Mildred at the National Bank Building in Houston, Texas, the sender — signing with an initial — writes enthusiastically: "This is a wonderful place — also something like the Venice of the Americas — I intend to send more to Brown & Swedes." A lively personal document of Depression-era travel to Mexico.