Rare Signed Photo of Mexican Politician & Writer Joaquín Demetrio Casasús pets Louis and was sixty-four years

Louis and was sixty-four years old

Two original tintypes of the same man

Very good vintage condition with blank back

served in the army in World War I and earned a Purple Heart

Ralph Tunstall Wood

Rare Signed Photo of Mexican Politician & Writer Joaquín Demetrio Casasús pets Louis and was sixty-four yearsOriginal circa 1900 large format (8. 5" x 5. 25") photograph of Joaqun Demetrio Casass (1858 1916), signed in ink on the back. Casass was a Mexican Economist, Jurist, politician, Diplomat and Writer. He was a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, the correspondent academy in Mexico of the Real Academia de la Lengua Espaola, since 1904. He was the director of the Academy from 1912 until his death in 1916. He was also the Mexican Ambassador to