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Elisabeth Morrow, U.S. Ambassador's daughter, teaches English to Mexican children in Mexico City, Mexico.

Elisabeth Morrow teaching English to children in Mexico City, Mexico. The classroom at a school in Mexico City, Mexico. Children in the classroom. U.S. Ambassador's daughter Elizabeth Morrow, the teacher, stands in front of a black board in the classroom. Elisabeth Morrow, holding a book in her hand, teaches English to the Mexican students . Exterior view of the school building. Elizabeth Morrow comes out of the building with the children coming in a line.

Date: 1929, November 13
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054940
Study room of Soviet leader in exile, Leon Trotsky where Ramón Mercader attempted to kill him in Mexico City, Mexico.

Former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, in exile in Mexico City, Mexico. Fire brigades spray water jets on a building afire in San Francisco, California. Disturbed and broken items in the study room of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, Mexico where death attempt was made on him. The killer Ramón Mercader lay injured in a hospital. Bandages tied all over the body of the killer. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056649
Mexican people in the Central Bank of Mexico in Mexico City during currency mix-up due to Mexican laws on silver

Mexican civilians in a crowded street in front of the Central Bank of Mexico (2, 5 de Mayo Ave. Alc. Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City) called 'Banco de Mexico'. People on bank counters in the Central Bank of Mexico. Silver coins heaped on counters. Bags loaded in Bank vehicles.

Date: 1934
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040418
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
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
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