Continuing the bullfighting sequence documented in this 1949 album, this photograph shows the picador stage of the corrida, in which a mounted lancer weakens the bull before the matador's final passes. The dense crowd and period advertising underscore bullfighting's role as major public spectacle in postwar Mexico, an event likely attended by General Jonathan M. Wainwright during his travels following his release as a prisoner of war. Project: 218339