mexico city mexico

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

Lavanderas, City of Mexico. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

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

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

Gran bola de garbanceras--que por ser muy pretenciosas, se volveran 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

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

Cogida de Rodolfo Gaona en la plaza de toros de Puebla, el 13 de Dicie...

Broadside shows bust portrait of matador Rodolfo Gaona. The text conveys the lamentable death of this famous Mexican matador on a Sunday the 13th, which is deemed bad luck in the accompanying verse. Mexico. Imp... More

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.

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

Ropocatapetl [sic] and Iztachihuatl [sic] from the cathedral

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, colonial house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

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]

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

Mexico. Antiguedades Aztecas, Aztecs Antiquities / Abel Briquet.

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

[Ancient pottery and Aztec statue]

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

[Guadalupe near Zacatecas, Mexico]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mexican troops before the Hall of Congress, City of Mexico

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

El vulgo - 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

Seller of water bottles, Mexico City, Mexico

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

Carmen - gramophone disc, record label

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

Marines marching to station - Mexican War

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

Blue jackets resting on sidewalk - Mexican War

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Idol, Teoyaomiqui [i.e. Coatlicue]

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

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

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

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

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

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

El placer de la niñez colección de monólogos pasión eterna

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

Atlas mexicano. Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Atlas mexicano. Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Nuevo y divertido pleito de otra suegra con su yerno

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

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

El Estudiante - 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

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

Reading the will - A cartoon of a man sitting at a table

The cartoon illustrating U.S. mistrust, shows Carranza, seated at a table with Uncle Sam dressed in American military uniform. Carranza, reading him the "Last Will and Testament of Pancho Villa" says, "And to ... 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

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

[Portolan chart of the Pacific coast from Mexico to northern Chile].

Public domain image of a nautical map, chart, navigation pilot guide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Mayo Indians with bows & arrows joining Obregon in Rio Mayo

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

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

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.

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

Mexico, the Cathedral, City of Mexico

Historic Sites Public domain photograph of historic landmark building, Cathedral, religious architecture, church, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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