Text transcribed from caption: BOARDING HOUSE SHIELD ENTRANCE TO CONVENT #1088 Now restored as a public museum the cross-surmounted upper portion of the secret convent can be seen above the Puebla boarding house which afforded entrance through a sliding panel discovered by government investigators in 1935. The architecture is colonial and walls are of softly colored tiles. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (STH-MEX-LM-11-30-5)

Starr-Hunt, Jack. (photographer)

1945

still image

negatives

negative : black-and-white ; 7 x 5 inches

Convento de Santa Mónica (Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico)
Religious News Service--Archives.

Convents--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza.
Church and state--Mexico--History--20th century.
Museums--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza.
Decolonization--Mexico.
Monastic and religious life of women--Mexico--Puebla de Zaragoza.

Mexico
Puebla de Zaragoza.
20th century.
Mexico.
Puebla de Zaragoza (Mexico)
North and Central America--Mexico--Puebla--Puebla de Zaragoza

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. 1088; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_1088

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