Calaveras del montón, número 2, Jose Guadalupe Posada
Broadside shows the skeleton of a drunken peon wearing a sombrero, serape, and sandals, holding a bottle of Aguardiente de Parras--a reference to Madero's family's maguey plantation and distillery operation. Th... More
Second insurgent chief Palamino and his adjutant in Orozco's camp Mexi...
J153132 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Karl Halm. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[National Palace from the Cathedral, Mexico City, Mexico]
J182271 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
MEXICO. AMERICAN EMBASSY, MEXICO CITY
Public domain photograph of a tall building, villa, mansion, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
MEXICO. MEXICO CITY. COBIAN PALACE
Public domain photograph of large building, palace, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
MEXICO. MEXICO CITY. MOUNTED POLICE
A black and white photo of two men on horses. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
MEXICO. FOOD SUPPLY STATION - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...
Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Modern homes being constructed in new communities and housing develop...
Title devised by Library staff from accompanying caption. Possibly International Boundary and Water Commission photograph from U.S.I.A. 52-2324P.
Mies van der Rohe, Bacardi, Mexico
Architectural photograph shows the exterior of the Bacardi Office Building, Mexio City, Mexico which was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Title from information on negative sleeve. Forms part of: Balthazar... 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
Esta es de Don Quijote la primera, la sin par la gigante calavera
Broadside depicting a calavera of Don Quixote riding an equally skeletal horse. He charges other skeletons with his lance. They are trampled, flee in fear and fly into the air. A second image below that of Don ... More
El entierro de Zapata - Public domain portrait print
Broadside, on recto, shows full-length portrait of Emiliano Zapata holding a rifle. Zapata was the most influential revolutionary hero from southern Mexico. He disagreed with Madero's vague policy of land redis... More
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
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
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
The Military College of Chapultepec, the ancient site of the halls of ...
Military college, on top of a rocky hill, with high stone wall at the base, near Mexico City. Copyright by N. Currier. No. 554. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : G... More
Los gendarmes - Print, Library of Congress collection
Chapbook cover shows scene from a play: two gentleman and a policeman confront a woman street vendor and a drunk wearing a sombrero. Corn is shown in front of the woman on a small table. The script relates a br... More
Legítimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas
Broadside shows a banderillero (person who wounds a bull with decorated spikes during a bullfight) challenging a bull on recto, and spectators at a bullfight on the verso. The verse conveys the death of Lino Za... More
Lamentos que dirige un huérfano ya desvalido al encontrarse en el mund...
Broadside shows a boy placing a wreath on a grave. The text, in verse, speaks of all the misfortune befalling any orphan, from lack of love and tenderness to being out on the street homeless. There is also a po... More
San Judas Tadeo - Print, Library of Congress collection
Broadside, on recto, shows full-length figure of San Judas Tadeo (Saint Jude) with a church in the background. Two images, one of the Holy Child of Atocha and one of Saint Jude Tadeo, appear on the verso with t... More
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).
A Mexican hacienda. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.
Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Los charros contrabandistas. Juego de dados
Gameboard for dice game of the cowboy smugglers shows Mexican cowboys in charro outfits on horseback, lassoing the 64 spaces on the board. The accompanying text, upper right, provides the rules for the game. Im... More
Statue of Columbus, Mexico - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A pulgue [i.e. pulque] shop in Tacubaya, Mexico
Public domain photograph of a shop, shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Von den newen Inseln : der Statt Themistitan in den newen Inseln geleg...
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in ink: "From an unidentified German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia Universalis, 1597 or later. Bought f... More
Mapa, que comprende la Frontera, de los Dominios del Rey, en la Americ...
Pen-and-ink and watercolor. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 91 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
Vista del panorama de Mejico tomada desde la torre de Sn. Agustin Pedr...
Print shows a bird's-eye view of Mexico City with the cathedral at left center dominating the landscape; shows a street with pedestrians on the lower right. At head of title: 1a. Printed below title: A su Esce... More
[General Tomas Mejía, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[General Toboado half-length portrait, seated, facing front]
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
[Martin del Castillo y Cos, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]
In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 11, upper right. On verso: Aubert y Cia, 2? C. San Francisco, Mexico.
[Full-length portrait of a man holding top hat and cane, standing besi...
In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 26, lower right.
[Guillermo Prieto, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]
In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 21, lower left. On recto: Guillermo Prieto.
[Juan Bautista Ceballos (Cevallos), half-length portrait, facing front...
In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 16, upper right. On recto above item: Ex-President Gral. Ceballos.
Sr. Del Villar - Public domain portrait photograph
Del Villar, full-length portrait, standing, facing front. Title taken from above item in notebook. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 13, lower right.
[Jose Maria Lacunza, full length portrait, standing, facing front]
In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 16, lower right. On verso: E.A. Martinez y C[superscript a]., Escalerillas, No. 14.
[François Bazaine and his wife, full-length portrait, standing]
On verso: Fotografia: Aubert y Cia. 2[superscript A] C. San Francisco, 7, Mexico. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 7, lower right. On mou... More
[General José Luis Blasio, half-length portrait, seated, facing front]
In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 9, upper left. Written on recto: Jose Luis Blassio, Max's private secretary. On verso: Sagredo Valleto y... More
The Paseo, City of Mexico, equestrian statue of Charles V, Chapultepec...
Photographic print shows cityscape print of Mexico City. Illus. in: A trip to Mexico : being notes of a journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and back... / By H.C.R. Becher. Toronto : Willing and Williamson, 1... More
[Woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]
In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 31, lower left.
Ángela Peralta - Public domain portrait Cartes de visite
Ángela Peralta, half-length portrait, seated. In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 43, lower right. Handwritten at top of album page: Opera s... More
Aztec calendar stone - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique stone sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Mexico - planter's residence / Photo by A. Briquel.
Photograph shows view of hacienda with men and horses. No. 85. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).
Sacrifice stone, court of the Museum, Mexico
Part of title from jacket. Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Includes Aztec idol Teoyaomiqui, also known as Coatlicue. "No. 244" and "Detroit Photographic Co." on negat... More
[Man in maguey, Mexico] - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
View towards Guadaloupe from cathedral, City of Mexico, Mex.
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. On the farthest background, beh... More
Mexico street market, William Henry Jackson photograph
No. 8559. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mapa de la red telegráfica y de los itinerarios generales de la Repúbl...
Pen-and-ink on tracing linen over an ink grid. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 551 Includes distances from Mexico City and index to shipping routes. Imperfect: Torn along fold line. In upper left margin: 12328. Availab... More
Ready for a ride, Mexico - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Public domain photograph of Mexico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lecheria, Mexico - Mammoth Plate Photograph, mammoth plate negative
Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[La procesión] - Print, Library of Congress collection
Restrike print shows an image of 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, print... More
Mexican Bull Ring--Flaunting the scarlet
Bullfight in progress, with fans in background. D3631 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 10813.
Toy sellers, Alamada during Holy Week, City of Mex.
Outdoor vendors in tents and frame kiosks line road along tracks. H79620 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Globe Stereograph Co. No. 10,110.
La libertad caucional del famoso diestro Rodolfo Ganoa / Posada.
Print shows Rodolfo Ganoa, bullfighter, bust portrait, facing slightly right, above sword, cape, and cap, with head of bull at bottom. Letterpress text discusses Ganoa's release from prison on bail of 5000 pesos.
Indian scout - Mexican war - An old photo of a man on a horse
Photograph shows a man on horseback in desert terrain, wearing a serape and large hat, identified as an Indian scout during the Mexican Revolution. J153144 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 120.
[Dead horses lying on the road during the Mexican Revolution]
Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mexico City, Mexico--Feb. 10, 1913--Soldier guarding National Palace
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - portrait of an officer in military uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
What a Mexican commanding general looks like in the thick of battle, G...
Photograph of two soldiers. On the right is Francisco "Pancho" Villa looking through binoculars. J187929 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Newspaper Enterprise Association, Cleveland.
[Street view in Mexico City during the "Tragic Ten Days" of the revolu...
J179320 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The cathedral, Mexico City - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Title and attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898) Corresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-31415. Detroit Publishing Co. no. X 8547.... 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
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
Oración dedicada a la sombra de Señor San Pedro
Broadside shows Saint Peter standing on a cloud, with book and keys in hand, bestowing a heavenly aura to two weary walking men. The text on the recto is a prayer to Saint Peter. On the verso the text tells the... More
New York Tribune, [newspaper]. June 16, 1860.
Picryl description: Public domain historic political document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
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
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
De este famoso hipodromo en la pista, no faltara ni un solo periodista...
Broadside, on the front, shows calaveras bicycling, with identifying labels, "Voz de México," "Patria," "Universal," "Tiempo," "Partido Liberal," "Gil Blas," names of popular newspapers, and "Siglo XIX," and "S... More
Verdaderos versos de Macario Romero, Jose Guadalupe Posada
Broadside shows portrait of military leader Macario Romero on horseback and Indians wearing feathered headdresses in the background. The text tells of the murder of Romero by his girlfriend's father and speaks ... More
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
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
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
[Moonlight on the Viga Canal] / HH [monogram].
People walking beside canal in moonlight. Public domain scan of 1910s woodcut print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Aztec calendar stone, City of Mexico
In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 51150. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.
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
Mexico City, Mexico - National Palace
Facade. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
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