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They appear to be using the Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun. At the time of the photograph they would have been quite new. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotchkiss_M1914_machine_gun

This picture most likely may be date-corraled on february 9-18, 1913, during the Ten Tragic Days in Mexico City. Roberto Duarte M D

Notice in the lower right corner the signature "Melhado Foto", prop(riertor, rierty...), which most likely stands for Eduardo Melhado who took several pictures in Mexico City during the ten tragic days in februry 1913. So the creator should be him. Learn about Eduardo Melhado in miguelangelmorales-fotografos.blogspot.mx/2009/03/eduardo...

jerodamor: Seems likely that the photograph was taken by Eduardo Melhado in 1913. We'll add a note next time we update the catalog record. Thanks!

This must be circa 1890.

Between 1910 and 1915 took place only two manned free balloon flights in Mexico City, both in early 1914: On the Sunday, January 25, the mexican aviation pioneer Alberto Braniff Ricard (1885-1966) and the french technician Jules Dubois flew on a 2,200 m3 Gordon Bennett hydrogen-filled balloon just brought from France by Braniff himself. They took off from a Braniff's plot beside the former Colonia Railway Station (Estación Colonia) near the Paseo de la Reforma avenue (the balloon in the photograph seems to be above this place). As a Braniff´s guest were aboard the legendary mexican ballooning pioneer Joaquín de la Cantolla y Rico (1829-1914), at that time already an elder man, who would die three days later. The second flight took off on the Saturday, January 31, in the same place and on the same Gordon Bennett balloon manned by Braniff and Dubois. Alberto Braniff short biographies: www.jorgecornish.com/Braniff.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Braniff A photograph showing Alberto Braniff in the company of Pascual Orozco, Francisco Villa and Giuseppe Garibaldi (grandson of the italian hero): www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2162707307/ www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=22081777 Braniff´s balloon taking off from the vicinity of the former Colonia Railway Station (photograph): img162.imageshack.us/my.php?image=volar05ht1.jpg Braniff´s balloon taking off as was seen from the Cuauhtémoc Memorial (photograph): www.jorgecornish.com/images/Braniff_8.jpg From left to right: Cantolla, Braniff and Dubois aboard on the Alberto Braniff's balloon basket (photograph): img162.imageshack.us/my.php?image=volar04av5.jpg Joaquín de la Cantolla inaccurate short biographies (in spanish): www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/notas/3843-En-tiempos-de-Can... www.uaq.mx/fcps/tribuna/343/opi07.htm Book review on a novel about Cantolla (in spanish): www.proscritos.com/larevista/notas.asp?num=51&d=t&...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Tenochtitlán Siglo XXI (Ciudad de México), and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Rinconanda de San Diego al fondo, donde se encuentra la oficina de El Heraldo Periódico Independiente y teminaba en "T" la Avenida Balderas. www.flickr.com/photos/smu_cul_digitalcollections/8068576074/. y se ve el campanario del Convento de San Hipólito. www.flickr.com/photos/smu_cul_digitalcollections/8068571281/. Foto tomada viendo hacia el norte, a nivel de Primera y Segunda Calles de Colón, donde se angostaba la Avenida Balderas