kinkajou drawing
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The True History of Gonzalo Guerrero by Ric Hajovsky
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Above: Overhead storage was a problem even back then!
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Above: A Compañía Mexicana de Aviación (subsidiary of Pan American) Fokker F-10.
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Above: The Cozumel airport was first graded by Compañía Mexicana de Aviación in 1929-30.
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Above: The FAM 5 (Miami to Panama) and FAM 6 (Panama to Miami via the Antilles) combined made the Circle Route; Mexicana’s Mexico routes are included as dashed lines.
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Above: Pan American Airways bought Mexicana de Aviación for $100,000 dollars.
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Above: An airmail letter sent from Cozumel’s Airport in 1929.
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Above: One of the hundreds of pre-printed envelopes that Juan Trippe, the president of Pan American Airways, had mailed to himself on the first flight from Panama. (Len Lukens Collection)
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Above: A “first flight cover” from Cozumel, stamped April 18, 1932.
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Above: On Feb 13, 1929, Lindbergh and Merritt returned to Miami with the mail they brought back from Panama.
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Above: Lindbergh landed on Cozumel on February 4, 1929 on his way to Panama.
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old photo of Jackie Onasis with Fernando Barbechano in Cozumel
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stone monument of the “Cortes discourse”
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copy of the text of Hernan Cortez discourse
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book cover of The Historia de Mexico
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cluster of cluster jadeite celts from a mayan shipwreck on Cozumel
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jadeite celt found on Highborn Cay
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Engraving on the monument to A. R. Salas on Cozumel