“…Hundreds gathered for trip in white dresses carrying cloth bags, pails, candles—going to inaccessible & most venerable religious festival of Tres Reyes…Train started 7 A.M. with a hundred in a box car, people hanging on steps of platform even—engine went off tracks like some great sad silent dead horse of iron at noon, usual occurrence.” (See Journals Early ‘Fifties Early ‘Sixties , N.Y., Grove, 1977, 1992, P.37.) Narrow-gauge railroad, Merida to Valladolid, Quintana Roo, Mexico, January 1954., 1954, printed later

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 27.9 × 42.4 cm (11 × 16 11/16 in.)

sheet: 40.5 × 50.3 cm (15 15/16 × 19 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2012.118.80

Artists / Makers

Allen Ginsberg (artist) American, 1926 - 1997

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Inscription

signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: “…Hundreds gathered for trip in white dresses carrying cloth bags, pails, candles—going to inaccessible & most / venerable religious festival of Tres Reyes…Train started 7 A.M. with a hundred in a box car, people hanging on / steps of platform even—engine went off tracks like some great sad silent dead horse of iron at noon, usual occ- / urrence.” (See Journals Early ‘Fifties Early ‘Sixties [underlined], N.Y., Grove, 1977, 1992, P.37.) Narrow-gauge railroad, Merida to Valladolid, Quintana Roo, Mexico, January 1954. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: V2 / JAN.1953 / 27/364 / Mexico; bottom center: GD-AG-100; bottom right: GDC-861

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.