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Soldiers remove debris and locals build thatched roof huts after a disasterous earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Aftermath of a disastrous earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico. Soldiers and policemen remove debris at night after the earthquake hit the city. Smoke rises in the background. Two men walk past a damaged house. Rubble along a road. Damaged houses with partially collapsed walls and rubble spread around. Natives build thatched roof huts. Men work on the thatched roofs. A mother holds her child.

Date: 1931, January 22
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058947
Citizens campaign in Mexico City for Mexico to declare war against the Axis powers in World War II

Thousands of citizens march in Mexico City demonstrating for Mexico to declare war against the Axis powers in World War 2. They converge on the main plaza (Zócalo) where President Manuel Ávila Camacho stands on the balcony of the Presidential Palace, with his wife, Doña Soledad Orozco García de Ávila Camacho, and members of his staff. View from a high point overlooking the plaza, showing thousands massed with the Mexico City Cathedral in the background. Narrator states that citizens protest against axis sinking of unarmed mexican ships. Flags of the United States, and allied flags are displayed. Flags are waved in salute for their dead comrades, by Survors of the SS Potrero del Llano, a Mexican ship torpedoed by the German submarine, U-564, on May 13, 1942. Camera pans over the square filled with people and banners. Next, President Camacho is seen asking the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for a declaration of war. People on the streets (some sitting on street lamps) listen to the broadcast over loudspeakers. Mexican Army soldiers seen in helmets. Uniformed troops line a sidewalk. Deputies applaud after unanimously approving the declaration of war.

Date: 1942, May 22
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040847
Provisional President Emilio Portes Gill casts his ballot during Presidential Election in Mexico City, Mexico.

Presidential Election in Mexico City, Mexico. The voters gather outside a building during Presidential Election in Mexico City. Provisional President Emilio Portes Gill arrives in a motor carriage. Portes Gill gets off the car and enters the building. Other officials follow him. The Provisional President casts his ballot. Portes Gill with the officials outside the building.

Date: 1929, November 23
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054951
Residential and commercial buildings along with traffic on the streets of Mexico City, Mexico.

Traffic and hustle bustle on the streets in Mexico City, Mexico. Traffic moves around the El Caballito. Buildings around a branch of the National Bank. People walking on a small street between buildings. Business and residential buildings with a few churches around. Dusk view of the Mexico City and vehicles drive past on a road.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063454
Mexicans take a last look at Russian revolutionist Leon Trotsky during his funeral in Mexico City, Mexico.

Russian revolution leader Leon Trotsky's funeral in Mexico. The casket with the body of Trotsky is placed in a car. Leon Trotsky's funeral procession on the streets of Mexico City. A group of men carries his casket. At a public viewing of the open casket, Mexican citizens take a last look at the body of Leon Trotsky in the casket. Members of the Mexican section of the Fourth International stand in honor near the casket. Mexican people stand in a long line to take a last look and pay their last respects to Trotsky. Views of the long queue for the viewing, stretching down a main street of Mexico City.

Date: 1940, August 22
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063473
The Plaza Del Caballito and the Independence Monument in Mexico City, Mexico.

The old and the new buildings in Mexico City, Mexico. The Plaza Del Caballito with Mexico's famous statue equestrian statue. Vehicles drive past the statue. View of the Independence monument during sunset. Vehicles drive past the monument. Insignia on the independence monument.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063457