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title: 'Patzcuaro: Overnight from Mexico City'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mexico-patzcuaro-overnight-from-mexico-city-1939/
description: Two barefoot men in straw hats carry fishing nets and baskets by a lake with butterfly nets behind them, under the title 'Patzcuaro.
section: Collection
---

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[![Patzcuaro: Overnight from Mexico City, 1939 Mexico poster: Two barefoot men in straw hats carry fishing nets and baskets](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mexico-patzcuaro-overnight-from-mexico-city-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mexico-patzcuaro-overnight-from-mexico-city-1939.jpg)

# Patzcuaro: Overnight from Mexico City

Two barefoot men in straw hats carry fishing nets and baskets by a lake with butterfly nets behind them, under the title 'Patzcuaro: Overnight from Mexico City'. This is a tourism advertisement with no political claim; the closest fit is glittering generalities, in the idealised heroic depiction of local people and place.

## 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

```
PATZCUARO
Overnight from Mexico City
NATIONAL RAILWAYS OF MEXICO
WORKERS' ADMINISTRATION

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

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