Editorial comment for this plate:

ORIZABA.

The Mexican scene which embellishes this number of THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES is from a negative by Henry R. Taylor, a skillful amateur of New York, who has once before contributed a frontispiece to our magazine. The view was taken during a four weeks’ trip to Mexico. “I carried with me,” writes Mr. Taylor,” a 6½ × 8½ ‘ Albion’ camera, and two dozen ‘Barnett’ plate-holders. This negative was made on a C plate, and developed with pyro and potash. The lens was a Ross rectilinear fitted with a Prosch shutter.” In the interesting article which follows, Mr. Taylor describes Orizaba; where the picture was taken.

Orizaba is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. It is located 20 km west of its sister city Córdoba, and is adjacent to Río Blanco and Ixtaczoquitlán, on Federal Highways 180 and 190. The city had a 2020 census population of 120,500 and is almost coextensive with its small municipality, with only a few small areas outside the city. The municipality, with an area of 27.97 km² (10.799 sq mi), had a population of 123,182. While the metropolitan area of Orizaba has a population of 462,261 as 2020.—Wikipedia (2026)

Henry Richmond Taylor: 1869-1925

Obituary, The New York Times: December 6, 1925

HENRY R. TAYLOR, CAPITALIST, DIES

Succumbs in Sleep From Heart

Disease in His City Home at 56 Years.

FATHER’S DEATH SIMILAR

He and His Brother Moses Each Inherited $15,000,000—A Director of Metropolitan Opera.

Henry Richmond Taylor, capitalist, a director of many corporations and a member of many clubs, was found dead in bed yesterday morning at his residence, 3 East Seventy-first Street. He was 56 years old. He returned home Friday night after dining at the Metropolitan Club and showed no signs of illness. He apparently succumbed to heart disease during his sleep. On another Saturday morning, that of May 28, 1921, his father, Henry A. Colt Taylor, died of heart disease in the same house.

A grandson of the late Moses Taylor, famous New York merchant and President of the National City Bank, Henry R. Taylor was born in this city and spent practically his entire life here. He graduated at Columbia In 1891. On the death of their father he and his brother. Moses Taylor, of Kean, Taylor & Co., 5 Nassau Street, each inherited a fortune or $15,000,000. Their sister, the Countess Harriet della Gherardesca of Florence, Italy, received $200,000 and a trust fund of $2.000,000.

Mr. Taylor was President of the Deer Range Corporation. which owns the 1,500 acres on Great South Bay, L. I., formerly the property of the late George C. Taylor, and now involved in a controversy between the corporation and the Long Island State Park Commission as to whether it shall be made into a public park.

Mr. Taylor was a director of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, Farmers Loan & Trust Company, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Rail-road, Seamen’s Bank for Savings, and other corporations. His clubs included the Knickerbocker, Union, Metropolitan.

New York Yacht, Brook, Racquet and Tennis, Turf and Field, India House, Piping Rock, National Golf, Downtown, Links. Links Golf, Garden City Golf, and Automobile of America.

In addition to his brother and sister, Mr. Taylor is survived by his step-mother, formerly Miss Josephine W. Johnson, with whom he resided. Funeral services will be held at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning in Grace Church, Broadway and Tenth Street.