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Making tortillas (patty cakes) in the streets of Guadalupe Mexico

H24832 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Salve costas de Bretaña - gramophone disc, record label

Tenor vocal solo, with piano Public domain photograph of gramophone disc label - sticker, record label, music record, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

La celosa enmarañada - 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

Plano de la Ciudad de Mexico / - Public domain map

Relief shown by hachures. Handwritten inscription in lower margin: México, junio 1, de 1907 este plano de publica con autosizacion de la dirección general de obras públicas. Guillermo A. Puga. In lower margin: ... More

Mi morenita mía - gramophone disc, record label

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

La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga

Sheet consists of two broadsides (número 2 on left and número 1 on right) of the penny press "Edición especial." Número 2 has a small masthead illustration of a man and woman sitting next to each other as well ... More

[Lumber industry in Mexico], Panoramic Photograph

Gift; Helen Wright; May 23, 1913; DLC/PP-1913:44609. Title derived from P&P accession records.

Casamiento de indios, no. 2 - gramophone disc, record label

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

General Francisco Villa, George Grantham Bain Collection

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

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

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

Rapid transit in Mexico / Lee., Mexico

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

Hoy como ayer, los enemigos de Juárez

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

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

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

Mexico. Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Mexico, reference map. Historic map, Library of Congress

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

Atlas pintoresco é histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.

Maps have border illustrations, including portraits. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga36 2008-02-06

Atlas pintoresco é histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.

Maps have border illustrations, including portraits. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga36 2008-02-06

Atlas pintoresco é histórico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.

Maps have border illustrations, including portraits. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Form AACR2: ga36 2008-02-06

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

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

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

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

Aventuras de un catrin por amar a una casada

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

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

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

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

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

City of Mexico. From the convent of San Cosme

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

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

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

Lavanderas, City of Mexico, Mexico

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

Verdadera imagen del Señor de Chalma

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

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

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

Mexico, the Cathedral, City of Mexico

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

La cola del diablo, Jose Guadalupe Posada

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

El placer de la niñez colección de monólogos pasión eterna

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Convent of Capuchinas, where Maximilian was imprisoned in Queretaro

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Nunez, half-length portrait, facing front]

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

Giuseppe Tombesi - Public domain portrait print

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

Mexican aguadores - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Mexico. Palacio Nacional, National Palace / Abel Briquet.

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

Mexico, street scenes, cargadores

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

Mexico, street scenes, cargadores

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

Mexico, pulqueria and carreta, Mexico

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

Photo of Serpentine bust Centeotl - Public domain dedication

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

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

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

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

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

Juego del circo - Print, Library of Congress collection

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

La Labor, Mexico - Mammoth Plate Photograph

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

[La procesión] - Print, Library of Congress collection

Restrike print shows people in procession carrying candles and a banner entering through an arched doorway. Title from Gamboa. Attributed to Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm) as publisher. Posada, printmaker to the... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Manufacturing cartridges in a Mexican munitions factory

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Cathedral, City of Mexico, Mex.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cathedral or church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The Cathedral, City of Mexico, Mex.

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

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 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

Los sueños de las posadas o un magnífico aguinaldo

The recto of this broadside shows dream-like images of people gathering around a campfire (upper right), a nativity scene with the three magi in procession (upper left), two scenes of couples dancing, and a sce... 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

The storming of Chapu[ltepec] Sept. 13th [1847] / drawn on stone, prin...

Copyright by Sarony & Major. "N. Currier, 152 Nassau St., N.York, [sole agent]" printed below title. LC copy has lost some text areas. Bracketed text supplied from America on stone / Harry T. Peters. Garden Ci... More

Genl. Scott's grand entry into the city of Mexico, Sept. 14th, 1847

Print shows General Winfield Scott, full-length portrait, seated on horseback, facing front, leading triumphant American troops into Mexico City during the Mexican War. Entered according to Act of Congress in t... More

Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos que se venera en el estado de ...

Broadside shows a statue of Our Lady of Saint John of the Lakes. There are two cherubs above the image holding a scroll with Latin writing which reads "Immaculate mother pray for us." This image of Our Lady has... 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.

City of Mexico. From the convent of San Cosme

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

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

Caricature, La cola del diablo, public domain cartoon image

Battle of Churubusco--Fought near the city of Mexico 20th of August 18...

Copyright by N. Currier. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 441

Attack on Chapultepec, Sept. 13th 1847--Mexicans routed with great los...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

Tarantula, México, Noviembre 2 de 1902, núm 49

Public domain photograph of political cartoon, comics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

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

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

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

[Emperor Maximilian, bust portrait, turned left]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Confederacy in petticoats., Confederate States of America.

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

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

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

Isabel Alva - Public domain portrait print

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

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

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

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

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

[Train by river in steep canyon, probably Mexico]

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

A pulque shop in Tacubaya, Mexico

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

[Going to market (Mexico)] / Moran.

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

Tango de la mulata - gramophone disc, record label

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

Fantasia - gramophone disc, record label

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

A la Virgen 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

Muestras para bordado, cuaderno no. 8

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

La calavera del cólera morbo, Jose Guadalupe Posada

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

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

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

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