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[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.

Viva México! - Public domain dedication image

Band Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

En un jardín - gramophone disc, record label

Male vocal duet, with guitar Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

MEXICO. MEXICO CITY. GENERAL VIEW

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A map of the United States of Mexico : as organized and defined by the...

Relief shown by hachures. Cover title: Tanner's travelling map of Mexico. Prime meridian: Washington. "Entered according to Act of Congress, the 2nd day of April 1832, by H.S. Tanner, of the state of Pennsylvan... More

[General Félix Charles Douay, half-length portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 14, upper left. Above recto of item: Gral. Douai.

[General Santiago Vidaurri, half-length portrait, standing, facing fro...

On recto above item: Gral Santiago Vidaurri. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 14, lower right.

[Fountain surrounded by benches in the Alameda Central park, Mexico Ci...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 42, lower left. On verso: Photographie de la Porte 51 Denis, Pestel, Boult Bonne-Nouvelle, No. 3, Paris.... More

[Miguel López, half-length portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 18, upper left. On recto mount: Cnel Miguel López; The Traitor.

[Baron Alexander von Humboldt, half-length portrait, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 27, upper right. On recto: Cruces y Campa 2[Superscript d] de S. Francisco, No. 4, México.

[F.S. Mora, Minister Plenipotentiary for Emperor Maximilian of Mexico,...

Printed on verso: F. S. Mora, Ministre Plenipotentiaire de S. M. l'Empereur du Mexique, en Mission extraordinaire en Russie, Danemark, Suede & Norvege. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

[Manuel Robles Pezuela, bust portrait, facing front]

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Public domain photograph of cathedral, church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bas-relief on statue to Gautamozin

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

Stock of crude salt - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexico. La Catedral, the Catedral / Abel Briquet.

Photograph shows a large cathedral. 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... More

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

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

The cathedral, City of Mexico. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

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

Popocatapetl [i.e., Popocatépetl] from the plaza, Amecameca

Photograph showing the plaza and cathedral at Amecameca, with Popocatépetl towering above.

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

[Popocatépetl volcano, Mexico] - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Public domain image of a volcano, geyser, lava, smoke, eruption, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Scenes from Mexico and the 1900 Paris Exposition] / - Exposition Univ...

The Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, also known as the Paris World Fair of 1900, was a world's fair that was held in Paris, France from April 15 to November 12, 1900. The fair was held to celebrat... More

[Men toasting each other possibly in front of a bar, Mexico]

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

[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

Pasacalle de las peinadoras - gramophone disc, record label

Vocal quartet Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Mule caravan at town, Mexico] - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Gun of the insurrectos - Mexican War

Group of soldiers posed with cannon and guns, during Mexican revolution. J155027 U.S. Copyright Office.

[General Campa and staff, Mexican War]

Six men with rifles. J166903 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexico, Federalists at Ojinaga, watching advance of rebels

J191433 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[With the U.S. troops in Mexico--black soldiers digging a ditch for ra...

"For the files of the War Dept. only. Photo by William Fox, staff photographer. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood" No. 203963.

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

La Alameda de Mexico The public park of Mexico.

Print shows a public park in Mexico, with people walking near a fountain in the park. Printed below title: 631. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1848 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's office of the... 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

Viva Pascual Orozco valiente luchador y fiel amante de rasgar la caret...

Broadside, on recto, has a full-length photographic image of Pascual Orozco facing forward. He is a soldier with a rifle at his side. The text, in verse, speaks of Orozco as a true patriot. Orozco was central t... More

Viva Pascual Orozco valiente luchador y fiel amante de rasgar la caret...

Los celos del negro con D. Folias

Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: a man with a gun stoops before a black man who is wearing a sombrero and holding a knife. A policeman runs towards both of them. The script concerns the murders of a blac... More

Idol, Teoyaomiqui [i.e. Coatlicue]

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

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

Death of Col. Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, Feby. 23d, 1847 / E.B. & E....

Group of officers surrounding the dying Col. Clay. Copyright by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg.

Death of Col. Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, Feby. 23d, 1847 / E.B. & E....

Group of officers surrounding the dying Col. Clay. Copyright by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg.

Pleito de la suegra con su yerno. Ya la vieja de mi suegra nomás quier...

Broadside shows an angry woman hitting a man with a chair. The room is in disarray with objects scattered. A woman peers around a door. The text concerns a dialog between the mother-in-law and a son-in-law. Bot... More

Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero

Broadside includes 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 spea... More

Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico, California &c. : segun lo organi...

Shows Mexico and the southern United States. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridian: Washington. Gift; Thomas W. Streeler; Dec. 28, 1937. Includes distance chart, distance list, and 2 profile... More

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

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 46, lower right. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera singers. On verso: Andres Martinez y c[Superscr... More

[Francisco Zarco, full-length portrait, seated, facing front]

On recto: F[Superscript co] Zarco. On recto: Cruces y Campa, 2[Superscript d] S. Francisco, no. 4. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 24, lower left.

Mr. Wike, English diplomat - Public domain portrait print

On recto: Cruces y Campa, 2[Superscript d] de S. Francisco, no. 4, México. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 27, lower right.

Sra. de Sancha - Public domain portrait photograph

Woman, half-length portrait, seated, facing front. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 30, upper right. On verso: Andres Martinez y C[Supers... 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.

Pump wheel at the salt wells, Mexico

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

[View towards Guadaloupe from cathedral, City of Mexico, Mexico]

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. In the farthest background, beh... More

Esplicacion de la 1a. vista del panorama de Mexico / imprenta lito cal...

Print showing bird's-eye view of prominent buildings, identified by numbered key, in Mexico City.

Fountain, Salto del Agua, Mexico

Photo shows fountain with bas relief of Mexico City coat of arms. (Source: Roberto Duarte, 2012)

Mexico street market - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Photo shows the Calle La Academia and Calle República de Guatemala located a few blocks behind the National Palace, in the Centro Histórico of Mexico City, Mexico. (Source: Roberto Duarte, 2012)

[Group of cargadores by old aqueduct, Mexico City, Mexico]

Public domain image of an arch structure, bridge, historic place ruins, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

Mexico, Aztec idol, Teoyaomiqui [Coatlicue (statue)]

Historic Sites Public domain photograph of statue, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Smuggling on the Rio Grande / drawn by P. Frenzeny.

Smugglers walking across the Rio Grande, with packs on their backs; U.S. customs officers hiding in bushes in foreground. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 30, 1886 Sept. 4, p. 565.

Man peddling corn husks to be used as wrapping paper

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Copyright by C. B. Waite, San Juan de Letrán No. 5, Mexico City.

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

[Vendors selling fruits and vegetables at a market in Mexico] / Scott.

No. 1167. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexico - Aguascalientes Hot baths.

Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

El peladito - gramophone disc, record label

Male vocal duet, with guitar Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A mi María - gramophone disc, record label

Male vocal duet, with guitar Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A basket seller and his wares, City of Mexico, Mexico

H110142 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 17606. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, 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

[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

Col. G.A Wingate, seated on ground, 1913

U.S. soldiers near the Mexican border during the Mexican revolution. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Opportunity knocks - A political cartoon of a woman holding a sign

A female figure labeled "Pan-America," knocking on Mexico's door, carrying a bundle of documents marked "Peace and Good Will," "Friendship," and "Constitutional Government." To the right of the doorstep, a Mex... More

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