mexican capital

[Juan Baptiste Jecker, half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

On mount recto: Cruces y Campa - México - 2[Superscript d] de S. Francisco, no. 4. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 6, lower right. Writt... More

[General Zires, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, lower left.

[General José Nicolás de la Portilla, full-length portrait, seated, fa...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 14, lower right. Above item on recto: Gral. Portilla. On recto: Cruces y Campa, Mexico. On verso: Fotogr... More

[Full-length portrait of a woman, standing, facing front]

Public domain scan of a female portrait, woman, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Termination of the Aqueduct, City of Mexico / B.W. Kilburn.

Stereograph shows an eleborate sculptured fountain with several people beside it and water carriers standing in front of it. No. 1069. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Kilburn Brothers... More

Mexico, panorama from the cathedral, [showing] the palace

Picryl description: Public domain image of a palace, villa, or large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Valley probably in Mexico] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Palace from cathedral, city of Mexico, Mex.

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Railroad crew and tracks, Mexico]

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mexico. Antiguedades Aztecas, Aztecs Antiquities / Abel Briquet.

Public domain photograph of Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Ancient pottery and Aztec statue]

Photographs show displays of Aztec sculpture and pottery, probably at the National Museum of Mexico, Mexico City. Photographed in 1883 or 1884 during the time that Jackson traveled to Mexico on a commission fr... More

[Guadalupe near Zacatecas, Mexico]

Photo shows locomotive number 57 of the Mexican Central Railway, at Guadalupe, Zacatecas station, ca. 1887. (Source: Roberto Duarte, 2012)

Inmemorables recuerdos de la plaza de toros en Mixcoac, inauguración v...

Broadside shows a matador challenging a bull in three vignettes. The text conveys a exciting run of bullfights in which six bulls are brought out onto the plaza and four bullfighters are injured. The second tex... More

A remnant of Mexican imperialism--Maximillian's coach, Museum, Mexico ...

H8072 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Splendidly equipped carpet factory ... Santa Gertrudes, near Orizaba, ...

Workers at their machines in a Mexican carpet mill. H31488 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

Mexican troops before the Hall of Congress, City of Mexico

H97175 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 913. Copyright by Standard Scenic Company.

Seller of water bottles, Mexico City, Mexico

Man carrying load of pottery jars(?) on his back. George Grantham Bain Collection.

Marines marching to station - Mexican War

Photograph shows a large procession of soldiers marching through a train station, during the American occupation of Veracruz, Mexico. J192587 U.S. Copyright Office.

Blue jackets resting on sidewalk - Mexican War

Photograph shows soldiers sitting on the sidewalk while another group walks down the street pulling a cannon, during the American occuption of Veracruz, Mexico. J192579 U.S. Copyright Office.

Letra arreglada al popular walls [i.e. vals] Alejandra

Broadside shows a full-length figure of a woman wearing a shawl and hands on her hips. The accompanying text is a love song that uses the garden of Eden as its metaphor. Another song titled "Modern song dedicat... More

Grupo de Abanderadas: Banderas de America, Escudos de los Estado y Ciu...

Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ayes de dolor profundo que da un huérfano afligido que a sus padres ha...

Broadside shows grief-stricken boy leaning against coffin. The text conveys the lamentations of a young man, who in losing his parents, finds himself in an orphanage. A second text in verse on the verso is tit... More

La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadside shows the skeleton of publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo dressed in a bowler hat, dark glasses and a suit and sporting a long beard and mustache, standing in his print shop. Small skeletons work at aspe... More

El purgatório artístico, en el que yacen las calaveras de los artistas...

Broadside shows the second level of hell, in which the calaveras of artists and artisans hold objects relating to their profession, including musical instruments, a palette, and paper. Below the main image, the... More

Battle of Mill El Rey--Near the city of Mexico--Sept. 8th 1847 / E.B. ...

Public domain image of a military forces, uniform, officer, military commander, European armies, free to use, no copyright restrictions -Picryl description

[Mexican War battle] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Memories of the Mexican War" by Mrs. La Salle Corbell Pickett, Delineator 89... More

The U.S. naval expedition under Com..ore M.C. Perry, ascending the Tus...

Copyright by Sarony & Major. Naval Portfolio No. 2. Naval scenes in the Mexican War by H. Walke Lt. U.S. Navy.

La arranquera, esto si que es grande apuro ya no se consigue un duro

Uncut broadside shows gentleman seated beside writing desk and smaller male figures. The text conveys the problems of scarcity of money and of poverty--hunger--and lists the different foods that one could eat i... More

The naval expedition under Com..re Perry, assending [sic] the Tabasco ...

Copyright by Sarony & Major. Naval Portfolio. Naval scenes in the Mexican War by H. Walke Lieut. U.S. Navy (No. 5).

Idol, Teoyaomiqui [i.e. Coatlicue]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fountain, historic landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Sun, [newspaper]. April 24th, 1865.

La vida de un soldado - A poster with a picture of a man holding a bas...

Broadside, on recto, shows a revolutionary soldier with hands above head holding on to an object, perhaps part of a rifle. This ballad conveys the sentiment of a soldier fighting in the Mexican Revolution in wh... More

Loa dicha por una cocinera y un aguador, en honor de Nuestra Señora de...

Broadside, on recto, shows a woman with a shawl over her head and man with water jugs at his feet. On the verso is an image of a Madonna with a snake, partial globe, and cherubs at her feet. Cherubs also appear... More

El placer de la niñez colección de monólogos pasión eterna

Chapbook cover shows a scene from the play: a woman sitting in a garden in a pensive pose. The text inside the pamphlet expounds on the love and longing by Eloise for Ernesto, her lover. Front cover: Puelicados... More

Atlas mexicano. Historic map, Library of Congress

Running title. Issued in sheets. Maps dated 1884 to 1886; no. 28 and [29] are numbered 28. Phillips 2685 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga36 2007-02-08

Atlas mexicano. Historic map, Library of Congress

Running title. Issued in sheets. Maps dated 1884 to 1886; no. 28 and [29] are numbered 28. Phillips 2685 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga36 2007-02-08

Nuevo y divertido pleito de otra suegra con su yerno

Broadside shows an angry woman attemping to hit a man, her son-in-law, with a round object, possibly a plate. There is another man standing outside the door entrance. There are various scattered objects on the ... More

Von den newen Inseln : der Statt Themistitan in den newen Inseln geleg...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in ink: "From an unidentified German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia Universalis, 1597 or later. Bought f... More

Mapa, que comprende la Frontera, de los Dominios del Rey, en la Americ...

Pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 91 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

[General Tomas Mejía, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[General Toboado half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Martin del Castillo y Cos, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, upper right. On verso: Aubert y Cia, 2? C. San Francisco, Mexico.

[Full-length portrait of a man holding top hat and cane, standing besi...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 26, lower right.

[Guillermo Prieto, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 21, lower left. On recto: Guillermo Prieto.

[Juan Bautista Ceballos (Cevallos), half-length portrait, facing front...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 16, upper right. On recto above item: Ex-President Gral. Ceballos.

Sr. Del Villar - Public domain portrait photograph

Del Villar, full-length portrait, standing, facing front. Title taken from above item in notebook. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 13, lower right.

[Jose Maria Lacunza, full length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 16, lower right. On verso: E.A. Martinez y C[superscript a]., Escalerillas, No. 14.

[François Bazaine and his wife, full-length portrait, standing]

On verso: Fotografia: Aubert y Cia. 2[superscript A] C. San Francisco, 7, Mexico. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 7, lower right. On mou... More

[General José Luis Blasio, half-length portrait, seated, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 9, upper left. Written on recto: Jose Luis Blassio, Max's private secretary. On verso: Sagredo Valleto y... More

The Paseo, City of Mexico, equestrian statue of Charles V, Chapultepec...

Photographic print shows cityscape print of Mexico City. Illus. in: A trip to Mexico : being notes of a journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and back... / By H.C.R. Becher. Toronto : Willing and Williamson, 1... More

[Woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 31, lower left.

Ángela Peralta - Public domain portrait Cartes de visite

Ángela Peralta, half-length portrait, seated. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 43, lower right. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera s... More

Aztec calendar stone - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique stone sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Mexico - planter's residence / Photo by A. Briquel.

Photograph shows view of hacienda with men and horses. No. 85. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

[Man in maguey, Mexico] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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View towards Guadaloupe from cathedral, City of Mexico, Mex.

Photo shows the cathedral vault (foreground); in the middleground to the right, Templo de la Ense±anza, behind it in the center, former Encarnacion Church; vault and bell tower. On the farthest background, beh... More

Mexico street market, William Henry Jackson photograph

No. 8559. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mapa de la red telegráfica y de los itinerarios generales de la Repúbl...

Pen-and-ink on tracing linen over an ink grid. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 551 Includes distances from Mexico City and index to shipping routes. Imperfect: Torn along fold line. In upper left margin: 12328. Availab... More

Ready for a ride, Mexico - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lecheria, Mexico - Mammoth Plate Photograph, mammoth plate negative

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[La procesión] - Print, Library of Congress collection

Restrike print shows an image of people in procession carrying candles and a banner entering through an arched doorway. Title from Gamboa. Attributed to Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm) as publisher. Posada, print... More

Mexican Bull Ring--Flaunting the scarlet

Bullfight in progress, with fans in background. D3631 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 10813.

Toy sellers, Alamada during Holy Week, City of Mex.

Outdoor vendors in tents and frame kiosks line road along tracks. H79620 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Globe Stereograph Co. No. 10,110.

La libertad caucional del famoso diestro Rodolfo Ganoa / Posada.

Print shows Rodolfo Ganoa, bullfighter, bust portrait, facing slightly right, above sword, cape, and cap, with head of bull at bottom. Letterpress text discusses Ganoa's release from prison on bail of 5000 pesos.

Indian scout - Mexican war - An old photo of a man on a horse

Photograph shows a man on horseback in desert terrain, wearing a serape and large hat, identified as an Indian scout during the Mexican Revolution. J153144 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 120.

[Dead horses lying on the road during the Mexican Revolution]

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexico City, Mexico--Feb. 10, 1913--Soldier guarding National Palace

George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - portrait of an officer in military uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

What a Mexican commanding general looks like in the thick of battle, G...

Photograph of two soldiers. On the right is Francisco "Pancho" Villa looking through binoculars. J187929 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Newspaper Enterprise Association, Cleveland.

[Street view in Mexico City during the "Tragic Ten Days" of the revolu...

J179320 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Atlas pintoresco é histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.

Maps have border illustrations, including portraits. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga36 2008-02-06

El destierro - Print, Library of Congress collection

Broadside shows full-length figure of a man with slumped shoulders wearing unusual hat, perhaps the exile of the title song, as well as a masthead illustration. The text is a ballad conveying the tribulations o... More

Oración dedicada a la sombra de Señor San Pedro

Broadside shows Saint Peter standing on a cloud, with book and keys in hand, bestowing a heavenly aura to two weary walking men. The text on the recto is a prayer to Saint Peter. On the verso the text tells the... More

New York Tribune, [newspaper]. June 16, 1860.

Picryl description: Public domain historic political document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadside shows the skeleton of publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo dressed in a bowler hat, dark glasses and a suit and sporting a long beard and mustache, standing in his print shop. Small skeletons work at aspe... More

De este famoso hipodromo en la pista, no faltara ni un solo periodista...

Broadside, on the front, shows calaveras bicycling, with identifying labels, "Voz de México," "Patria," "Universal," "Tiempo," "Partido Liberal," "Gil Blas," names of popular newspapers, and "Siglo XIX," and "S... More

De este famoso hipodromo en la pista, no faltara ni un solo periodista...

Broadside, on the front, shows calaveras bicycling, with identifying labels, "Voz de México," "Patria," "Universal," "Tiempo," "Partido Liberal," "Gil Blas," names of popular newspapers, and "Siglo XIX," and "S... More

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Broadside shows portrait of military leader Macario Romero on horseback and Indians wearing feathered headdresses in the background. The text tells of the murder of Romero by his girlfriend's father and speaks ... More

El fin del mundo es ya cierto todos serán calaveras; adiós todos los v...

Broadside, recto, shows skeletons in pandemonium because of cataclysmic natural events around them. There are also three small skeletons heading the text. The text, a calavera in verse (epitaph), predicts an ap... More

Mayo Indians with bows & arrows joining Obregon in Rio Mayo

Postcard shows a line of men with bows drawn. To the left a man beats a drum and another raises a sword. In the center of the photo a man dressed in dark clothing holds a case. Caption continues: These are all... More

El niño afortunado; El grillito valeroso

Two un-cut sheets for two chapbooks, each containing a children's story eight pages long. The eight pages for each of these two stories are divided between the two uncut printed sheets. The two sheets contain i... More

[Moonlight on the Viga Canal] / HH [monogram].

People walking beside canal in moonlight. Public domain scan of 1910s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plano ichnographico de la ciudad de Mexico que demuestra el reglamento...

Oriented with north to the left. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 594 Indexed. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

[Napoleon III, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 10, lower left. On verso: H. Tournier, 57, Rue de Seine, 57, Paris; Déposé.

[Abraham de la Peña, half-length portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, lower right.

[Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing fron...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 20, upper right. On recto: Gral. A. Lopez de Santanna.

Portrait photo of [Emperor Maximilian on horseback]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 5, lower right.

Who is responsible for the war? Who accountable for its horrors and de...

Extracts from a speech by Alexander H. Stephens (now Vice-President of the Confederate States), delivered in the Secession Convention of Georgia, on the 31st day of January, 1861. Who commenced the war?… catalo... More

[Woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 30, upper left. On recto: Mexico.

City of Mexico from chapel of Guadaloupe [i.e. Guadalupe, in Gustavo A...

Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Aguadores, Mexico] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Peon couple - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Man and woman standing by wall of building, Mexico. Title transcribed from item. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress) Copyright by C.B. Waite, Mexico City.

Segunda calavera taurina de la nueva estudiantina. A este toro delgado...

Broadside shows four human skeletons in triangular hats and carrying musical instruments taunting a skeleton bull. The text, in verse, conveys the slaying of the bull and speaks of death in general. México. Imp... More

Canal de la Viga, City of Mexico

Historic Sites Public domain photograph of a canal, water landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aztec idol, Teoyaomiqui [Coatlicue (statue)], mammoth plate negative

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Central America History, Aztec, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Pre-Columbus America free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cargo of vegetables, Viga Canal, City of Mexico

Man poling boat laden with vegetable. D3646 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 10829.

[Mexican picnic, Mexico] / photo by Hugo Brehme, Mexico, D.F. - Frank ...

Two men with guitars, and woman, seated on ground. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.

Making tortillas (patty cakes) in the streets of Guadalupe Mexico

H24832 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plano de la Ciudad de Mexico / - Public domain map

Relief shown by hachures. Handwritten inscription in lower margin: México, junio 1, de 1907 este plano de publica con autosizacion de la dirección general de obras públicas. Guillermo A. Puga. In lower margin: ... More

La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga

Sheet consists of two broadsides (número 2 on left and número 1 on right) of the penny press "Edición especial." Número 2 has a small masthead illustration of a man and woman sitting next to each other as well ... More

[Lumber industry in Mexico], Panoramic Photograph

Gift; Helen Wright; May 23, 1913; DLC/PP-1913:44609. Title derived from P&P accession records.