mexican capital

General Francisco Villa, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows portrait of Pancho Villa, general of the Mexican Revolution. No. 604. Photographic print from Bain negative LC-B2- 3785-1. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2012:147.11 c1 f1

Mexico City - dead men & horses in street before National Palace, Feb....

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Baking bread for Pershing's army in Mexico New field kitchens being us...

Photograph shows soldiers working with outdoor oven. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rapid transit in Mexico / Lee., Mexico

Photograph shows a line of ox carts transporting goods traveling along a village(?) road. Title from caption on verso. No. 625; 333447.

Hoy como ayer, los enemigos de Juárez

Bi-weekly broadside shows three unsigned cartoons. One political cartoon depicts Benito Juárez, as a symbol of Mexican democracy, pointing a crowd of fascists and Nazis toward the Hill of the Bells (where a fir... More

Caricature, Buena es la libertad, pero..., public domain cartoon image

Bi-weekly broadside shows four unsigned political cartoons: three ridicule Nazism and one comments on the low salaries and high rents in Mexico and how rents rise as new wars and skirmishes occur worldwide. Ado... More

Mexico. Historic map, Library of Congress

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "Base 504704 (546155) 4-81."

Mexico, reference map. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Cover title. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes inset of "Valley of Mexico" and ancillary map of "Mexico-US borderlands... More

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

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

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

Esta es de Don Quijote la primera, la sin par la gigante calavera

Broadside depicting a calavera of Don Quixote riding an equally skeletal horse. He charges other skeletons with his lance. They are trampled, flee in fear and fly into the air. A second image below that of Don ... More

Amor cuando muere, canción moderna. Gaona se muere y no

Broadside shows, on verso, a bust portrait of bullfighter Rodolfo Gaona. The text includes three songs: "When love dies;" "Gaona dies or not," which conveys how Gaona was gored July 5, 1909 and whether or not h... More

Aventuras de un catrin por amar a una casada

Broadside shows, on recto, a sad man sitting on a mattress thinking about a woman. The text conveys the story of a man who got caught in bed with another man's wife and was taken to court and sentenced to jail.... More

Suicidio causado por envenenamiento y celos de dos señoritas en el bos...

Broadside, on recto, shows full-length figure of a man pointing left toward the first word of the title, "suicidio." The text tells the story of the suicide poisoning of two young girls in Chapultepec Park. The... More

Mexico, a pulque shop, Tacubaya. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

City of Mexico. From the convent of San Cosme

Bird's-eye view of Mexico City as seen from convent of San Cosme. Title and captions also in Spanish. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1211.

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

Lavanderas, City of Mexico, Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of travel in Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Verdadera imagen del Señor de Chalma

Broadside shows a statue of the crucified Christ. On the verso, accompanying text describes a miracle performed by the Lord of Chalma. Fidencio's father, Regino Esteves, had lost his faith in Catholicism and ha... More

[Manuel Lozada, half-length portrait, turned slightly right]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 10, upper right.

Mexico, the Cathedral, City of Mexico

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La cola del diablo, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: one man lies on a bed at the center of the image, his uncle standing with a tail in hand to the right; and a man and a woman standing next to each other to the left. The ... 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

A pulgue [i.e. pulque] shop in Tacubaya, Mexico

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

Mapa y tabla geografica de leguas comunes que hay de unos á otros luga...

Shows North America. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. "Dedicada al exm̃o señor D. Agustín de Ahumada y Villalón, marqués de las Amarillas, ... virrey governador y captain general de esta Nueva Espana."... More

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

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 8, lower left.

[Emperor Maximilian, bust portrait, turned left]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 7, upper left. Photograph of painting?

[Colonel Paulino Lamadrid, three-quarter length portrait, seated, faci...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 12 upper left.

[General José Lopez Uraga, full-length portrait, standing, facing fron...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 9, lower left.

[Juan José Baz, half-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 23, lower left.

[Ramón Corona, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 22, upper right.

[Half-length portrait of a woman, seated, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 46, upper left. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers. On verso: A. Martinez y c[Superscript a... More

The New Year's address of the Newsmen of the New York Herald.

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Confederacy in petticoats., Confederate States of America.

Public domain scan of American Civil War image, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Isabel Alva - Public domain portrait print

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 44, upper right. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers. On verso: Andres Martinez y c[Superscr... More

[Half-length portrait of a woman, seated, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 44, lower left. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers. On verso: Plodowoska? On verso: Andres ... More

The calendar stone, Nat'l. Museum, City of Mexico

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

Teoyaomiqui [Coatlicue statue], court of the museum, Mexico

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

[Train by river in steep canyon, probably Mexico]

Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A pulque shop in Tacubaya, Mexico

Detroit Photographic Co., 08618. LC-D418-8618 Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Going to market (Mexico)] / Moran.

People going to market with donkeys and sheep. 23261V U.S. Copyright Office.

Muestras para bordado, cuaderno no. 8

Illustrated cover for a set of embroidery patterns, shows a woman sitting down at a frame, embroidering. Imprenta de la Test. de A. V. Arroyo, 2a de Santa Teresa 40, México. Signed in plate lower right: Posada.... More

Calavera tapatia - Print, Library of Congress collection - Manuel Mani...

Broadside shows a male skeleton having a drink of tequila and smoking a cigar. On a table before him lie various objects. A child skeleton looks over his shoulder. Six small decorative skulls break up the text.... More

La calavera del cólera morbo, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Broadside shows a man with the body of a snake in the center of a group of skulls, representing the disease cholera, his arms are outstretched and tongue out. Flying insects surround him. The skulls that surrou... More

General Villa, Mrs. Villa / W.H. Ho[rne] Co., El Pas[o].

Photograph shows Pancho Villa and his wife, Luz Corral, greeting a group of photographers and reporters. Information in summary note from Getty Research Institute Digital Archives. No. 600. Accession box no. D... More

Scraps of paper - Public domain dedication image

(DLC/PP-1933:0112). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Chicago Tribune, July 10, 1916.

Motorcycle squad attached to brigade headquarters near Casa Grandes, M...

Photograph shows four soldiers on motorcycles. J213114 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Market place at Aculxameca, Mexico

Photograph shows people at an outdoor market in Aculxameca, Mexico (possibly Acuexcomac, Mexico).

Direct primary in Mexico - Drawing. Public domain image.

(DLC/PP-1933:0112). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Chicago Tribune, Dec. 12, 1923.

Largest open pit copper mine in the world at Santa Rita, New Mexico. C...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, excavation or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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

La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga; Mi hombre; y Mi noche triste

Sheet consists of four broadsides (número 2 on lower left and número 1 on lower right; número 4 on upper left and número 3 on upper right) of the penny press "Edición especial." Número 2 has a small masthead il... More

La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga; Mi hombre; y Mi noche triste

Sheet consists of four broadsides (número 2 on lower left and número 1 on lower right; número 4 on upper left and número 3 on upper right) of the penny press "Edición especial." Número 2 has a small masthead il... More

Tarantula, México, Marzo 16 de 1902, núm 17

Director, F. Herrerias. Formerly filed under call number: LOT 6659. Gift; Alice Lee Parker; 1952.

Gran mole de calaveras. Aquí está el sabroso mole, el mole más bien gu...

Broadside, on recto, shows skeletons having a picnic in a graveyard, embellished with decorative elements of small skulls and two grim reapers. Verso shows five skeleton images, with four of them as food vendor... 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

Chin! Chun! Chan! Las mujeres! - Public domain portrait print

Broadside shows a serenader and as well as a masthead illustration. The text on the front and verso includes five songs: "Chin! Chun! Chan!," "The women," "Indifference," "What will I do without you?" and "I a... More

Los gendarmes - Print, Library of Congress collection

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: two gentleman and a policeman confront a woman street vendor and a drunk wearing a sombrero. Corn is shown in front of the woman on a small table. The script relates a br... More

Calavera del drenaje. El mérito día de finados todos los que se restir...

Broadside shows a large skull and crossbones; several small skeletons and small skulls in between the text and also used as borders. The text includes 16 calaveras in verse on the recto and on the verso. The ve... More

A Mexican hacienda. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Historic Sites Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The landing, of the naval expedition, against Tabasco [Mexico]. Com......

Naval Portfolio. Naval Scenes in the Mexican War by H. Walke Lieut US Navy, No. 6. Copyright by Sarony & Major.

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

La vida de un soldado - An old spanish newspaper with a picture of a m...

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

Gran bola de garbanceras que, por ser muy pretensiosas, se volverán ca...

Broadside, on recto, shows skeletons purchasing such items as candles and sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead celebration. A female skeleton carrying a skull and a male skeleton carrying a basket face each oth... More

Gran bola de garbanceras que, por ser muy pretensiosas, se volverán ca...

Broadside, on recto, shows skeletons purchasing such items as candles and sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead celebration. A female skeleton carrying a skull and a male skeleton carrying a basket face each oth... More

Tric-Trac, semanario humoristico, Año 1, Núm 7, Junio 7 de 1903

Formerly filed under call number: LOT 6659. Gift; Alice Lee Parker; 1952.

Street scene, City of Mexico - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

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

Juego de lotería - Print, Library of Congress collection

Gameboard or gaming pieces for a lottery game, with thirty-eight blocks of illustrations. Each block is an contains a named object, in Spanish. No instructions appear on this gameboard. Publicado por la Test. d... More

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

Broadside shows gentleman seated beside writing desk; smaller cuts show profile busts of two men: small male figure wearing nightshirt, and a small skeleton on a balance. The text conveys the problems of scarci... More

Viva la república! Viva el Cura Hidalgo! Una página de gloria

Broadside shows bust portrait of Father Miguel Hidalgo in an oval medallion at center of sheet. Text surrounds the image in a square, celebrating Mexican Independence. On the verso are two images of Mexican sol... More

L'élévation et la chute de l'empereur Maximilien; intervention franc...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Luis G. Osollo, bust portrait, facing front]

On recto above item: Gral. Luís G. Osollo. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 15, upper right.

[Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, half-length portrait, standing, facing fr...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 25, lower right.

[Jesús González Ortega, half-length portrait, facing front]

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

Convent of Capuchinas, where Maximilian was imprisoned in Queretaro

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 42, upper right. Inscription in red ink on verso: Ag... Peraire, Fot, ... Real, Mexico. Attributed to Fr... More

[José Tomás de Cuéllar, half-length portrait, seated, facing right]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 10, upper left.

[Full-length portrait of a woman, standing, turned right, facing front...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 45, lower right. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers. On verso: Andres Martinez y c[Superscr... More

[Map of Mexico City and environs, showing some buildings] / Samuel Est...

Engraving by Samuel Estradanus. Illus. in: Diego Cisneros' Sitio, naturaleza y propriedades dela Ciudad de Mexico (1618). Reference copy may be in Geog. File (Graphics) Mexico Mexico City. This record contains ... More

[Nunez, half-length portrait, facing front]

On mount: Nuñez, M[Superscript tro] de hda de Juarez. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 24, upper left.

[Porfirio Díaz, full-length portrait, seated, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 22, lower right.

Giuseppe Tombesi - Public domain portrait print

Title taken from verso of item. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 44, upper left. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers. On verso... More

Mexican aguadores - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Mexico. Palacio Nacional, National Palace / Abel Briquet.

Photograph shows a large palace. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, w... More

Mexico, street scenes, cargadores

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

Mexico, street scenes, cargadores

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

Mexico, pulqueria and carreta, Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of travel in Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Photo of Serpentine bust Centeotl - Public domain dedication

A black and white photo of a statue, Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Picryl description: Public domain image of a church or cathedral inter...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a church, cathedral, religious building, 17th,18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Decorated pottery jars and figures called piñates, used to hold Christ...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Juego del circo - Print, Library of Congress collection

Game has numbered areas showing different circus acts, involving horseback riding, acrobatics, and juggling. The accompanying text describes the rules of the game. Prop. de I T. Orellana. Asegurado conforme a l... More

La Labor, Mexico - Mammoth Plate Photograph

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[La procesión] - Print, Library of Congress collection

Restrike print shows 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, printmaker to the... More

A thousand Mexican sombreros (hats), Mexico City market / Pan-American...

H24833 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Calavera comercial. Estas son las calaveras de todos los comerciantes,...

Broadside shows skeletons patronizing a merchant skeleton selling such items as candles and sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead celebration. The text, a calavera in verse, conveys how "la flaca" (death) is mak... More

[Cannon being fired by insurrectos at Battle of Ciudad Juarez]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mexico City, Mexico - National Palace

Detail of facade. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Aquí la calavera está, señores, de toditos los buenos valedores

Broadside shows man, arms folded, as a protector or bodyguard, standing before a pile of skulls. Four other skeletons appear lower left and right of the broadside. The text in verse conveys the grand life which... More

Tristísimas lamentaciones, triste y muy triste es noticiar hechos tan ...

Broadside shows the Virgin of Guadalupe with two cherubs holding a crown above her head. Another cherub is at her feet. A prayer is printed below the image. The accompanying text is a narration, requesting the ... More