Dawson truck trip, Mexico, 1946

E. Yale Dawson’s Guggenheim marine phycological expedition to Mexico and Central America, “throughout Baja California and along the coast from Punta Peñasco, Sonora, to Tapachula, Chiapas“, 1946. The trip by Dawson and his family by truck covered arid areas, the jungle, being ferried across and fording rivers, roadwork, volcano eruption aftermath (Parícutin in Michoacán, or, Popocatépetl in Puebla or Morelos or Mexico), the Aztec archaeological city of Teotihuacan (near Mexico City), busy market town views including church, town square, and dwellings; also a trip via dugout canoe on a river. “Dawson – Mexico by truck” – container. "En 1946, como becario de la John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, el autor inició una serie de expediciones de colecta, que se han extendido por toda Baja California y a lo largo de la costa desde Punta Peñasco, Sonora, hasta Tapachula, Chiapas." [In 1946, as a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the author began a series of expeditions of collection, which have spread throughout Baja California and along the coast from Punta Peñasco, Sonora, to Tapachula, Chiapas.] -- E. Yale Dawson. "Resumen de las investigaciones recientes sobre algas marinas de la costa pacífica de México, con una sinopsis de la literatura, sinonimia y distribución de las especies descritas" in Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historica Natural (13): 97-197. 16 frames per second.