mexican, mexico

Mexican soldiers - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Picryl description: Public domain image of an 18th-19th century military conflict, armed forces, infantry, militia, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

South-west trenches Major Francisco S. Peralta standing back to shack,...

Photograph shows soldiers aiming rifles over trenches. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Altar de la Virgen de Guadalupe]

Restrike print shows an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on an altar surrounded by potted plants and candles. Attributed to Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm) as publisher. Gift; Joyce Bailey; 1979; (DLC/PP-1979:228.007b).

[Bodies of dead men loaded on a cart in a Mexican town]

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

Pancho Villa, General Hugh Scott, and others at a race track, Ciudad J...

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

Mexican Revolution - 1916. Villista prisoners gathered in by American ...

Guarded by African American troops of 24 Infantry. 213128 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption car... More

Imperial Valley, California, Mexican. He tells his story: he helped dr...

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

[Frida Kahlo (Senora Diego Rivera) standing next to an agave plant, du...

Date based on Vogue article publication. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress).

Battle of Cerro Gordo - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congres...

Print shows American soldiers advancing on Mexican infantry and cavalry, and artillery during the Battle of Cerro Gordo, in Mexico. Publication date based on copyright statement on item. Printed at bottom cent... More

Lamentos que dirige un huérfano ya desvalido al encontrarse en el mund...

Broadside shows a boy placing a wreath on a grave. The text, in verse, conveys the misfortunes befalling any orphan, from the lack of love and kindness to being in the street homeless. A poem titled "Maternal l... More

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

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 in the title, "suicidio." The text conveys the suicide poisoning of two young girls in Chapultepec Park. The girls, who... More

La santisisma Virgen de Sn. Juan de los Lagos

Broadside shows the statue of Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos on the recto. Two cherubs hold a scroll above her head that reads, translated from the Latin, "Immaculate mother pray for us." This image of Our L... More

Constitucion federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos sancionada por el...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy 1 has appended at end: Acta constitutiva de la Federación mexicana (1 p. l., 12 p.).

Unas lindas mañanitas, a las muchachas bonitas, levàntate mamacita, qu...

Broadside has two separate images: a man serenading two women from the street upper center, and a full-length figure of a gentleman tipping his top hat lower center. The text on the front and on the verso is th... More

Nuevas coplas del Chún-Chín-Chán! El charamusquero

Broadside shows male and female performers lined up on a stage. The text consists of three songs: "The candy twist dance" which is in nonsense verse, "The polichinela" written also in nonsense verse, and "The s... More

Esta es la segunda parte de los versos a Ponciano y un recuerdo de sus...

Broadside shows full-length figure of Ponciano Díaz. The text in verse eulogizes his bullfighting talent. Díaz died on April 15, 1899. Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Calle de Santa Teresa núm. 1. México. P... More

Caricature, Los chascos de un licenciado, public domain cartoon image

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a room in which one man is chasing another with a club and a third man is on the floor with arms raised. The script tells of the misunderstandings between a lawyer and hi... More

[Portrait of Diego Rivera and Malu Block and Frida Kahlo de Rivera]

Standing with bookcases in background. Title derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: XVI 20. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of:... More

Pleito de la suegra con su yerno

Broadside shows an angry woman about to crack a man's skull with a chair. The room is in disarray with objects scattered around. A woman peers behind a door on left. The text concerns a dialog between the mothe... More

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

Railroad franchise granted by the Mexican government to Benigno V. Gar...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Terrible y verdadera noticia del espantoso ejemplar ocurrido con Norbe...

Broadside shows a woman with a knife stabbing her elderly father as her dead mother lies in the background. The text conveys the tale of Norberta Reyes, whose parents could not control her. She runs away with a... More

[Archaeological artifacts and man standing near urns]

Photographs show displays of Aztec sculplture, probably at the National Museum of Mexico, Mexico City, and a man, probably William Henry Jackson, standing near urns probably at the National Museum of Mexico. P... More

The most famous bands in France & Mexico, Garde de Republicaine and Me...

H 52926 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Muestras para bordados, no. 1 - Public domain graphic arts, Library of...

Illustrated cover for a set of embroidery patterns, shows a woman sitting down at a frame, embroidering. De venta en la Tip. de la Test. de A.V. Arroyo. 2a de Santa Teresa 40. México. Gift; Joyce Bailey; 1979; ... More

"American Legion of Honor" - Mexican Revolution

"American Legion of Honor" Company posed with weapons during the Mexican (Madero) revolution. J156157 U.S. Copyright Office.

Lunch in a Mexican insurrecto camp

Group of revolutionary soldiers standing around campfire, eating lunch. J155893 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by American Press Association.

[Bodies of dead men piled on a Mexican street]

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

Mexico - Presidio, Texas--Dr. Braden in charge of army Red Cross, dres...

J192552 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Back from the land of the nut a monologue

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

Por finjir [sic] espantos diálogo cómico en un acto

Chapbook cover shows a scene from a play: a man sits on the edge of a bed, hunched over, with his hand in a chamber pot. A child, under the bed, pushes the man's bottom with a broom. There are also two brushes ... 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

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

Caricature, Chin! Chun! Chan! Las mujeres!, public domain cartoon imag...

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

Constitucion federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos sancionada por el...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy 1 has appended at end: Acta constitutiva de la Federación mexicana (1 p. l., 12 p.).

Suspiros de los angeles - Manuel Manilla

Broadside shows masthead with musical instruments, sheet music, and books and two cherubs on recto. The text consist of three love songs: "Angels sighing," "The same as yesterday," and "The zenzontle." On the v... More

Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas

Broadside shows a banderillero (person who wounds a bull with decorated spikes during a bullfight) challenging a bull on recto, and spectators at a bullfight on the verso. The verse conveys the death of Lino Za... More

Señora, su conejito ya no le gusta el zacate, solo quiere chocolate. Q...

Broadside shows two women looking at a rabbit on a table. The ballad conveys, by means of metaphor, disdain of the upper class for living a life of luxury, represented by their attire and their diet. There is a... More

Verdadero retrato del Señor del Santuario de Otatitlán

Broadside shows the crucified Christ flanked by the Virgin and St. John. The text on the verso tells of a miracle bestowed on Ricardo Martinez upon his execution for being a non-Catholic and a brutal bandit. Hi... More

El mosquito americano - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

Broadside shows Mexicans running from mosquitos recently arrived from the United States. Includes humorous text on front and back relating to infestation throughout Mexico. Unsigned, attributed to Posada. Imp.... More

Una corrida de toros o el amor de Luisa

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a woman wearing a shawl makes amorous advances towards a bullfighter dressed in full regalia; a bullfighting stadium is in the background. The script concerns a love tria... 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

Echo ya la autoridad garra al malvado Ignacio Parra

Broadside shows a side-view, facing right of outlaw Ignacio Parra on horseback. The verse conveys the story Ignacio Parra who robbed and killed many in the state of Durango. He, along with his gang of bandits, ... More

Monument over the remains of 750 U.S. soldiers, who fell in the valley...

Photograph shows monument in a Mexico City cemetery. No. 1100. Copyright by Kilburn Brothers.

Mexico. Aztec calendar stone Mexico. Court of the museum.

Photographs show Aztec calendar stone, sacrifice stone, and statue of Coatlicue at the National Museum of Mexico, Mexico City. Titles from items. Photographed in 1883 or 1884 during the time that Jackson travel... More

La Calavera Sevillana, esta hermosa calavera que fue de un grande tore...

Broadside shows a skull decorated with the implements and costume of bullfighting. Small skulls and skeletons decorate the borders. The text in calavera verse conveys a listing of the better known bullfighters ... More

Mexican acequeia [i.e., acequia], or irrigating canal, Juarez, Mexico

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

Baturrico canción española. Mari-Mari

Broadside shows full-length figure of a female performer, and masthead illustration. The text consists of two love songs: "Baturrico canción española" and "Mari-Mari." Regst. conforme a la Ley, por la Test. de ... More

El prisionero de San Juan de Ulúa

Broadside has a masthead illustration and a decorative border separating the text. The text consists of two songs: "The prisoner of San Juan of Ulúa" which conveys the longing of a prisoner who wants to be set ... More

[Men and horses on sides of a tree-lined stream during the Mexican Rev...

J155170 U.S. Copyright Office Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexican Cavalry - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows General Navarro's column of Federal troops near a bullring in Juárez, Mexico. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and El Paso Herald, Feb. 23, 1911)

[Mexican War, 1914: U.S. soldiers interviewing Mexican refugees; man w...

J189851 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by Mutual Film Corp. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Army, U.S.; Red Cross; Refugees; Mexico History 1914.

[U.S. Naval occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico: Jackies entering barracks...

J194357 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by American Press Association. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[U.S. Naval occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico: Searching Mexican for wea...

J194374 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint copyrighted by American Press Association. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Mexico - U.S. campaign against Villa - 1916. U.S. soldiers on Mexican ...

10th Cavalry (African American) waving hats. 213130 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. See LC-USZ62-26809. Caption card t... More

Capitulation of Vera Cruz. The Mexican soldiers marching out and surre...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Magee.

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

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 in the title, "suicidio." The text conveys the suicide poisoning of two young girls in Chapultepec Park. The girls, who... More

El amor de madre, no hay cosa como la madre en la vida transitoria; qu...

Broadside, on recto, has an image of a mother kneeling with a dog at her side which she appears to be keeping from her child as he plays on the floor. The text, in verse, pays homage to the love and tenderness ... More

Por finjir [sic] espantos diálogo cómico en un acto

Chapbook cover shows a scene from a play: a man sits on the edge of a bed, hunched over, with his hand in a chamber pot. A child, under the bed, pushes the man's bottom with a broom. There are also two brushes ... 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

Suspiros de los angeles - Manuel Manilla

Broadside shows masthead with musical instruments, sheet music, and books and two cherubs on recto. The text consist of three love songs: "Angels sighing," "The same as yesterday," and "The zenzontle." On the v... 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

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

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

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

Verdadera imagen del Sr. de la Salud que se venera en Mezuititlán de l...

Broadside shows a crucifix flanked by statuettes of angels. The ornate border contains a small winged angel bust at the top. On the verso there is story of a husband and wife who are cured from a grave illness ... More

Railroad franchise granted by the Mexican government to Benigno V. Gar...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

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

[Mexican Central Railway train at station, Mexico]

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An old photo of a road and a picture of a mountain The Pathway of the ...

Photographs show pyramids and untitled scene of Mexican people working at a river. Titles from items. Photographed in 1883 or 1884 during the time that Jackson traveled to Mexico on a commission from the Mexica... More

Mexico - Sonora, Yaqui Indians, enlisted in the Mexican Army, being tr...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph of a locomotive, train car, railroad trucks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mexico - Railroad scenes: Mexican Central Railroad Station, San Luis ...

Photo by W.H. Jackson. 3974A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Mexican officers - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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

[Altar de la Virgen de Guadalupe]

Restrike print shows an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe on an altar surrounded by potted plants and candles. Title devised. Attributed to Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm) as publisher. Gift; Joyce Bailey; 1979; (DL... More

Villista prisoners in stockade guarded by 24th Infy men

Photograph shows African American soldiers guarding prisoners inside stockade of branches and brush.

Tomb of President Benito Juarez, Mexico City - covered with wreaths fr...

H8059 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of monument, historic place, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

La calavera de Don Juan Tenorio, Jose Guadalupe Posada - Manuel Manill...

Broadside shows a graveyard in which two skeletons are fencing each other, while another lies on the ground dead, and a fourth peeks from behind a tombstone. There are two small skulls, a small bird creature, a... More

Calaveras del montón, número 2, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Broadside shows the skeleton of a drunken peon wearing a sombrero, serape, and sandals, holding a bottle of Aguardiente de Parras--a reference to Madero's family's maguey plantation and distillery operation. Th... More

[Mexican War, 1914: religious procession in Chihuahua, Mexico]

J194157 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mexico History 1914; Geogr; Processions; War prisoners.

[Frida Kahlo (Senora Diego Rivera) standing next to an agave plant, du...

Date based on Vogue article publication. Forms part of: Toni Frissell collection (Library of Congress).

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

Back from the land of the nut a monologue

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

El entierro de Zapata - Public domain portrait print

Broadside, on recto, shows full-length portrait of Emiliano Zapata holding a rifle. Zapata was the most influential revolutionary hero from southern Mexico. He disagreed with Madero's vague policy of land redis... More

La inundación de Guanajuato y su causa verdadera

Broadside, on recto, has image of people struggling in flood waters, with town and mountainside in background. The text refers to the flood in Guanajuato, which occurred on Friday, June 30, 1905, and killed mor... 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

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

Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas

Broadside shows a banderillero (person who wounds a bull with decorated spikes during a bullfight) challenging a bull on recto, and spectators at a bullfight on the verso. The verse conveys the death of Lino Za... More

Lamentos que dirige un huérfano ya desvalido al encontrarse en el mund...

Broadside shows a boy placing a wreath on a grave. The text, in verse, speaks of all the misfortune befalling any orphan, from lack of love and tenderness to being out on the street homeless. There is also a po... More

San Judas Tadeo - Print, Library of Congress collection

Broadside, on recto, shows full-length figure of San Judas Tadeo (Saint Jude) with a church in the background. Two images, one of the Holy Child of Atocha and one of Saint Jude Tadeo, appear on the verso with t... More

A Mexican hacienda. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

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

Los charros contrabandistas. Juego de dados

Gameboard for dice game of the cowboy smugglers shows Mexican cowboys in charro outfits on horseback, lassoing the 64 spaces on the board. The accompanying text, upper right, provides the rules for the game. Im... More

La horrorosa calavera de la inundación de Guanajuato - Manuel Manilla

Broadside shows a large skull with several small skulls and skeletons on the recto and verso. The smaller images of skulls and skeletons are shown with corresponding objects conveying some attribute to a type o... More

Corrido de Reyes Ruiz. Corrido de Martín Herrera

Broadside shows simple ornamental border dividing the text which, in verse, consists of two ballads. The "Ballad of Reyes Ruiz," by Epigmenio Gonzales, conveys the killing of Ruiz on the eve of a Dieciseis de S... More

Juego de la oca, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Gameboard shows 63 numbered spaces, or "casillas," each illustrated with people, birds, animals, and objects, arranged in a spiral toward the center. The four corners, outside the game, show scenes of children ... More

[Gran calavera eléctrica] - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows large skeleton hypnotizing a group of skulls and a sitting skeleton; an electric street car, with skeletons as passengers, is in the background. This image is identical to the image used in the uppe... More