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Travels in Mexico and Life Among the Mexicans

Frederick Albion Ober · J. Dewing and Co.

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Published1884
Source tierPRIMARY
Used by1 verified claim
HISTORICAL SOURCE

The catalogue record shows that this item exists and describes it; it does not show what the item says. SmellBook verifies a statement from it only through a checked passage, cited by its location, and reproduces none of its text.

CITATION CHECK

Title, creator, publisher and date checked against the catalogue record on 2026-10-19 by an automated check. The Wikisource Index record (J. Dewing and Co., 1884) and the Wikimedia Commons record of the scan (Internet Archive item travelsinmexi00ober) agree on the author and year; chapter 17 spans images 335–356. Date confirmed to the year. SmellBook publishes only the citation, the location of the passage and its own claim, never the work’s text.

LIFECYCLE REVIEW

Reviewed 2026-10-19 · corrections 0

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flower marketmarketstravel writing1880s
CLM-FLOWERMARKET-001

Fragrance around a flower market, in an 1884 travel book ↗

In his 1884 travel book Travels in Mexico and Life Among the Mexicans, Frederick A. Ober writes that the air around the flower market on the western side of the Plaza Mayor in Mexico was delightfully fragrant.

One traveller's impression of a single market, published in 1884; it records what he noticed then, not how flower markets smell today.
EXTERNAL RECORD

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Source record SRC-OBER-1884

Permanent identifier smellbook:source:ober-travels-in-mexico-1884 · Graph record (JSON)

Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-19.