Throwback Thursday: Floating gardens of Mexico

Floating gardens of Xochimilco, 1937. Lantern slide.

 SmithsonianInstitution, Archives of American Gardens, Garden Club of America Collection. MX025001.

This Throwback Thursday, takes us back to 1930s Mexico. This photograph of the canals of Xochimilco (place or garden of flowers) just outside Mexico City are part of a larger series of photographs that document a trip that Garden Club of America members took to the country in 1937. The canals and chinampas or floating gardens were recognized as a popular tourist destination in the 1920s and were described in European guidebooks as "the Venice of Mexico."

Kelly Crawford, Museum Specialist
Archives of American Gardens