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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!

Francisco I. Madero, Sr. father of Francisco I. Madero, Jr., recently murdered President of Mexico and Rafael Hernandez. brother-in-law and cousin of the late President and who was his Secretary of the Interior arrived on March 7, 1913 from Vera Cruz aboard the Ward steamship Mexico according to this New York Times article of the following day: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9906E1D9133BE633A... Madero, Sr., was 64 at this time, and his son bore a remarkable family resemblance judging by the photograph of the son in this wikipedia artile: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_I._Madero Francisco I. Madero, Sr., also appears in the following group portrait as subject number 12, with his son the President as subject number 5: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2536794768/in/p... Other Bain collection photographs in this photostream relevant to President Madero are here: www.flickr.com/search/?q=madero&w=8623220@N02

great shot

Is this a grieving mood? His two sons (Gustavo and Francisco) were slain two weeks before.

I don't see the parents smiling. Maybe Raefel Hernandez was just in an award moment. We were'nt there so how can you comment on their mood. His wife Mercedes is looking at him very concerened

California watercolorist--Tasmanian by birth?

Clickr100, you are correct. Francis John McComas was an acclaimed watercolorist, born in Fingal, Tasmania in 1874. He first came to California in 1898 and eventually settled in Monterey after years of travel in Europe and North America. Thanks for your interest!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_McComas_(painter)

Thank you, he was my great uncle,,, we never met . But knew my aunt gene well. Tierney

May be you can add resources to the wiki page? Do you have pictures of his work?