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Adobe House - Mexico - Bake Ovens and Mules

A rather smart 'Georgian' style sash window rather remarkably set into the wall of an Mexican Adobe mud brick house with a pair of bake ovens (and a pair of mules) in front. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Patio, House of Ramona, San Diego, California, USA

Patio, House of Ramona (Ramona's Marriage Place, Casa de Estudillo), Camulos Rancho, Old San Diego, California, USA. It is an historic adobe house, built by early settlers in 1827, and later made famous by Helen Hunt Jackson's popular novel, Ramona (1884). Date: circa 1910

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Horno de Barro - Argentinian Mud Oven

Horno - a mud adobe-built outdoor oven used by Native Americans and early settlers of North America. Originally introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors, it was quickly adopted and carried to all Spanish-occupied lands. Quite common in the rural areas of Argentina (this example) and Uruguay, from colonial times to the present day, and it is called horno de barro ("mud oven"). On the reverse of this card is the line "Oven in the camp for making bread etc. etc." ! Date: 1903

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection