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The present catalogue is a graphic registry of the 34 days of the celebrations of the 1910 Centenary celebrations comprising a selection of more than 300 vintage photographs of the historic festivities taken for the official chronicle "Crónica oficial de las fiestas del primer Centenario de la Independencia de México", written in 1911 by Genaro García. Close to forty percent of them were never previously published because of their "inappropriate" content and that represent "the other side of a coin", a comparative effect illustrated by author Martha Ghigliazza, cataloger of the CNMH when referring to "the selected photographs of the front and verso covers of the book." Historian Montes Recinas and photographe Ghigliazza Solares are the responsible of publishing this inedited material, a cataloguing and digitalization project they started in 2006 in the photographic collection in custody of the Fototeca "Constantino Reyes Valerio" of the National Coordination of Historic Monuments (CNMH-INAH). Author Montes defines the book as "a bird's eye view of the Mexican people in 1910 and those that administrated the country, President Porfírio Díaz and his cabinet along other government officials of the education sector like Justo Sierra.