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Inscripción en la guarda: "MARTINE CHOMEL", "832781", I.O. la postal con fotografía estereoscópica lleva inscrito del lado izquierdo lo siguiente; "Keystone View Company", "COPYRIGHTED", "Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A.", "Publishers", abajo lleva "23657 T Ixtaccihuatl (The White Woman), 16, 900 Feet Seen from the Sacred Mount, Amecameca, Mexico.", arriba en el centro "6", del lado derecho "Meadville, Pa., New York. N.Y. Chicago, Ill., London, England.". Al reverso se lee lo siguiente: en el lado izquierdo "16167 - WORLD'S GREATEST SILVER MINING CITY, GUANAJUATO, MEXICO", y abajo "23657", "IXTACCIHUATL, AS SEEN FROM THE SACRED MOUNT, MEXICO", dentro de una tabla; "SERIES : 400, 200, 100, POSITION: 31, 19, 12". Y abajo; "We are standing upon Sacre Monte (The Sacred Mount), an enormous pyramid of earth built centuries ago as the site for an Aztec temple. The base of this pyramid covers forty acres of ground and the summit rises 200 feet above the surrounding country. Thousands of men, in the dim and far distant past, toiled in the fierce tropic sun until the task was completed, held to their work by the stern command of some ancient Aztec priest. A cave on Scare monte harbors a unique image of Christ, loaned yearly during Lent to the parish church below, where the Indiands enact annually a Passion Play. The image is returned to the cave by multitudes of pious pilgrims, who ascend to the stone steps on their knees. The city of Amecameca, twenty-five miles from the capital, center of a rich mining and agricultural region, lies at our feet, on the broad table-land which stretches away mile after mile beneath us. It is a pleasant city, with a population of about 12, 000. Broad streets, spacious squares and tile roofs of many colors lend it charm in the traveler's eye. Beyond the valley, Ixtaccihuatl, the recumbent "woman in white," rises 16, 900 feet into the sky. The summit is covered with perpetual snow and ice. Packed into the gullies which seam its sides, the snow hardens by its own weight into glaciers which thrust their way downward until heat from the plain melts the ice into mountain cascades. To the right, beyond the limits of our view, lies Popocatepetl. The volcano occasionally emits smoke and sulphur, but has not erupted since historica times. Cortez obtained sulphur for gunpowder from it more than three centuries ago. Copyright by The Keystone View Company". Nota: Al pie de los volcanes Iztacíhuatl y Popocatépetl se localiza el valle de Amecameca de donde destaca el Sacromonte, mirador natural de los volcanes, no es de grandes dimensiones y tiene como corazón una cueva. El nombre del volcán Iztaccihuatl proviene de la lengua nauatl, significa "mujer blanca", sus raíces son iztac (istak)= blanco y cihuatl (siuatl) = mujer. Ésta es la tercera montaña más alta de México después del Pico de Orizaba y del Popocatépetl V.F. 832777, tiene varios picos. El más alto, a 5.220 msnm, es conocido como "El Pecho"; sobresalen también "La Cabeza", además de "Los Pies". Referencias: http://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/notas/1872-Santo-Se%25F1or-del-Sacramonte,-Estado-de-M%25E9xico y http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iztacc%C3%ADhuatl consulta: 21/07/09.