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[Studies of cargadors, Mexico City]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Town and cultivated field in Mexico]

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

In the Almeda [i.e Alameda], City of Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Carte du Mexique / Historic map, Library of Congress

LC copy extensively annotated in English to show railroads. French. Publication information in English. Prepared from a map originally published in 1873 in Paris. Prime meridian: Mexico City. Printed on two she... More

Popocatapetl [i.e., Popocatépetl] and Iztachihuatl [i.e., Iztaccíhuatl...

Photograph showing the National Palace with Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl towering over Mexico City. No. 08541.

Guadaloupe [i.e., Guadalupe], William Henry Jackson photograph

Photograph showing the city of Guadalupe, possibly in Zacatecas. No. 08337.

Making cigarettes in the great factory "El Buen Tono," Mexico City, Me...

Women seated at machines. H31504 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

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

Episodio historico. El C. Ex-Presidente de la República don Francisco ...

Ex-president of the Republic Don Francisco I. Madero leaving the National Palace on 1913 Feb. 9, with the forces of Señor General Don Félix Díaz, during the Mexican Revolution; dead soldier lying on street in f... More

The Cathedral and Plaza de la Constitution on Independence Day, City o...

J9808 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 23689. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

A sensitive plant - Drawing. Public domain image.

Uncle Sam carrying cactus in pot labeled "Mexican friendship." (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: New York Herald, March 24, 1916, p. 5.

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

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

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

Provincia d[e] S. Diego de Mexico en la nueba España tiene 14 co[n]ven...

Bird's-eye view. Relief shown pictorially. In upper border: Nova delineatio s[t]rictissimæ, S. Didaci Provinciæ in Nova Hispania. Accompanied by paper pulls of recto and verso of the cooperplate. ([2] leaves : ... More

[General Ramón Mendez, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

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

[Jesús Terán full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

On mount: Teran, M[Superscript tro] de Justicia. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 24, 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, lower left. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers. On verso: Andres Martinez y c[Superscri... More

[Benito Juárez, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 21, upper left.

[Agnes Elisabeth Winona Leclerq Joy Salm-Salm, three-quarter length po...

On recto, above: Prince and Princess of Salm-Salm; below: Salm-Salm, Agnes (Joy), Prinzessin zu, 1844?-1912. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico... More

[Five cameo portraits with Empress Carlota in center, then clockwise f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a group of people, United States politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Woman wearing shawl, full-length portrait, standing facing front, wit...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 29, lower left. On recto: Andres Martinez y c[Superscript a] Fotografos, Mexico, C. de las Escalerillas, N. 14.

Patio, The - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Salt works and refining vats - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

Picryl description: Public domain image of field, irrigation, agriculture, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mexico. Aztec idol Teoyaomiqui Mexico. Aztec idol Teoyaomiqui, side.

Photographs show views of statue of the goddess Coatlicue (incorrectly identified as Teoyaomiqui) and head of the goddess Dentegtly at the National Museum of Mexico, Mexico City. Titles from items. Photographed... More

Falls in the Barranca - photo by William Henry Jackson

Photograph shows waterfalls In album: Mexico, v. 2. No. 08510. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of the Detroit Publishing Company Collection. Original negative may be available: LC-D418

[Peasants carrying two-hundred pound bags of silver ore from mines, Me...

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Copyright by C.B. Waite, Mexico City.

They like to "see the cars come in," Mexico

Mexican children & adults by railroad car. H79710 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 10,096.

Calaveras de caudillos de silla presidencial

Broadside shows three images of calaveras. In the center image, people flee a fearsome calavera wielding a leg bone. On the left, a calavera photographer shoots a camera. On the right, a calavera artist paints ... More

Chamber of Deputies, Lower House of the Mexican Congress - Frank G. Ca...

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

[Mexican military officers standing around a table in a planning room]

George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Saludo y felicitación al Señor D. Francisco I. Madero al tomar posesió...

Broadside shows small bust portrait of a mustachioed man--perhaps Madero--upper center and soldiers and military band on parade below the verses. The text, in rhyme, conveys the virtues of Madero's triumph over... More

Insurgents cooking dinner in Orozco's camp, Mexican War

J153139 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Karl Halm. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

It would be worth it / L.M. Glackens.

Illustration shows Uncle Sam in the background handing out pardons to criminals labeled "Gyp the Blood" (Harry Horowitz), "Dago Frank" (Francesco Carofisi), "Lefty Louis" (Louis Rosenberg), and "Whit e Lewis" (... More

MEXICO. MEXICO CITY. VIEW OF CAPITOL

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MEXICO. MEXICO CITY. GENERAL VIEW

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Bringing bodies of dead Jackies back to Vermont

Photograph showing sailor mooring boat bearing corpses to U.S.S. Vermont, during U.S. occupation of Veracruz, Mexico. J194343 U.S. Copyright Office. Embossed: Copyright by American Press Association.

MEXICO. FOOD SUPPLY STATION - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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

Market booth and group on La Viga Canal, Mexico City

J238425 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 16139. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Calaveras de coyotes y meseras - Public domain graphic arts, Library o...

Broadside shows a cat, with a skull for a face, standing on its hind legs holding two skulls. Additional skulls are scattered on the ground beside it. People run away in fear in the background. The text, in cal... More

Al Malaikah and Anezeh Temples attend garden party at U.S. Embassy, Me...

Photographer's address: Huntington Pk, California, U.S.A. Forms part of Josephus Daniels Collection. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 1948.

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 aurora del nuevo día en los campos de Belem--pastorela en un acto

Chapbook cover shows a scene from a one-act Christmas shepherd's play: four shepherds--two women and two men--stand together, with a town in the background and the Star of Bethlehem above. The script concerns a... More

Caricature, La última nota, triste canción, public domain cartoon imag...

Broadside, uncut, shows a swooning man, glass in hand. The verse conveys a sad man's laments about a hopeless love. This song is maudlin, but the print conveys heartfelt sadness. The hapless lover delicately ho... More

Caricature, La última nota, triste canción, public domain cartoon imag...

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

1904 glorias de México! Porfirio Díaz y Ramón Corral electos por el vo...

Broadside, on recto, shows the bust portrait of Porfirio Díaz. The text in verse extols the social improvements under Díaz's presidency and celebrates his re-election for the eighth term. The office of the vice... More

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

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

Versos de Valentín Mancera traidos del estado de Guanajuato

Broadside shows a Mexican guitarist singing in a doorway, as two soldiers escort Valentín Mancera, an outlaw from the state of Guanajuato. Mancera, murdered by the police in 1880, was famous for his hatred of t... More

La santisisma Virgen de Sn. Juan de los Lagos

The National Geographic Magazine map of Mexico /

Relief shown by contours, gradient tints, and spot heights. In lower left margin: The Edinburgh Geographical Institute. In lower right margin: John Bartholomew & Co. Annotated in ink: 1911. Available also throu... 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

La almoned del diablo, Jose Guadalupe Posada

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a winged devil with whip and pitchfork hovers behind a man who is auctioning skulls and animal heads to a group of townsfolk. The script concerns the play's personages pu... 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

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

Sangamo Journal, [newspaper]. May 14, 1846.

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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

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

Mexicque, ou Nouvelle Espagne, Nouvlle. Gallice, Iucatan &c. : et autr...

Appeared in Sanson's Cartes générales de la géographie ... 1676. Relief shown pictorially. Phillips, 486 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

[Miguel Cervantes, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 12 upper right. On verso: Montes de Oca y Cia, Fotografos, 1[superscript a] Calle de Plateros No. 6, México.

[Head-and-shoulders portrait of a man with handlebar mustache, facing ...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 26, lower left. On recto: Cruces y Campa 2[Superscript d] de S. Francisco, No. 4, México.

[Felipe N. Chacón, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, upper left. On verso: Montes de Oca y Comapañia, 1? calle de Plateras N. 6, Mexico.

[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]

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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...

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