Four figures — a man in a peaked straw hat shouldering a striped blanket-roll, and three women in vivid skirts of yellow, blue, and rose — stand with their backs to us at the rocky edge of a stream, gazing toward hazy blue mountains in the far distance, as if pausing on the long road home in this luminous, painterly linen card titled El Regreso al Pueblo ("Returning to the Village"). Photographed by the celebrated Mexican documentary photographer Luis Márquez Romero, whose lens captured indigenous and rural Mexican life throughout the 1930s and 1940s with both ethnographic precision and genuine aesthetic warmth, this card was published by Publicaciones Fischgrund of Mexico City as part of their prestigious "Arco Iris" (Rainbow) series — the same imprint that held exclusive rights to reproduce the picturesque maps of Diego Rivera, lending the series considerable cultural cachet.