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title: Handy... Mysterious... Colorful... Exotic... Mexico!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mexico-handy-mysterious-colorful-exotic-mexico-1939/
description: A hand-shaped window frames a church, cacti, a waterfall and a pyramid, with a train below and a slogan of four adjectives ahead of the country name.
section: Collection
---

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[![Handy... Mysterious... Colorful... Exotic... Mexico!, 1939 Mexico poster: A hand-shaped window frames a church, cacti](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mexico-handy-mysterious-colorful-exotic-mexico-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mexico-handy-mysterious-colorful-exotic-mexico-1939.jpg)

# Handy... Mysterious... Colorful... Exotic... Mexico!

A hand-shaped window frames a church, cacti, a waterfall and a pyramid, with a train below and a slogan of four adjectives ahead of the country name. The slogan reads 'Handy... Mysterious... Colorful... Exotic... Mexico!'. This is a tourism advertisement, not a war poster; the only appeal is the string of attractive adjectives attached to the country name (glittering generalities).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Handy..
MYSTERIOUS... COLORFUL... EXOTIC...
MEXICO!
NATIONAL RAILWAYS OF MEXICO
(WORKERS' ADMINISTRATION)

[imprint:] PRINTED IN MEXICO.
OFFSET-GALAS-MEXICO.
```

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