From a shaded terrace draped in bougainvillea, the twin baroque towers of the Church of Santa Prisca rise above the silver-mining town of Taxco like a crown against the mountain — a view so perfectly composed it could be a painting, captured here in crisp silver-gelatin real-photo format sometime in the early-to-mid 1950s. The foreground balustrade of ornamental circular cutouts frames the tumbling whitewashed rooftops and lush tropical greenery below, while the 18th-century church's dome and flanking campaniles dominate the right skyline. On the reverse, a couple signing as "Bunny and Ellen" write to friends in Rochester with easy wit: "Having a good rest before going back to work. Hope you have mother's orchard trimmed or I'll shoot you when I get home. I mean it." The stamps — a 10¢ green Mérida Colonial and a 5¢ brown Distrito Federal architecture pair — date the mailing squarely to the 1950s Mexican definitive series.