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Fine example of Olegario Molina's impressive map of Mexico, originally published by the Secretaria de Formento (Mexican Ministry of Commerce), for the use of the Ministry of Education (Secretario de Ramo).
Olegario Molina, a former governor of the Yucatan, was Secretary of Development from 1907 to 1911, and a powerful figure under President Porfirio Diaz.
The map is one of the best for Mexico of the early 20th century. It was so highly regarded that in 1913 it was the only contemporary map of Mexico reproduced by the War College for the archives of the U. S. War Department.
The following information describes the differences between the original Molina map, published in 1910 and the copy reproduced by the US War Department. The Bulletin of the American Geographic Society, Vol 46. No. 6 (1914), pp. 433-36 notes:
Finally the Comision has published a general map of Mexico on the scale of 1:2,000,000 entitled "Carta General de la Republica Mexicana formada en la Secretaria de Fomento por disposicion del Secretario del Ramo, Lie. Olegario Molina, 1910," whose scale might indicate some relation to the proposed sheet map on the same scale, although it is drawn and published as a unit. . . .
The present example does not include the imprint of the US Government in the bottom right corner, below the neatline.
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