mexico city

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.

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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

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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.

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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.

Seller of water bottles, Mexico City, Mexico

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

Marines marching to station - Mexican War

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

Blue jackets resting on sidewalk - Mexican War

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

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

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

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

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

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[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

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

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.

[Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing fron...

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 20, upper right. On recto: Gral. A. Lopez de Santanna.

Portrait photo of [Emperor Maximilian on horseback]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 5, lower right.

Who is responsible for the war? Who accountable for its horrors and de...

Extracts from a speech by Alexander H. Stephens (now Vice-President of the Confederate States), delivered in the Secession Convention of Georgia, on the 31st day of January, 1861. Who commenced the war?… catalo... More

[Woman, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

In album: Portraits of rulers, politicians ... relating to the reign of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, p. 30, upper left. On recto: Mexico.

City of Mexico from chapel of Guadaloupe [i.e. Guadalupe, in Gustavo A...

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

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

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Peon couple - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Man and woman standing by wall of building, Mexico. Title transcribed from item. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress) Copyright by C.B. Waite, Mexico City.

Segunda calavera taurina de la nueva estudiantina. A este toro delgado...

Broadside shows four human skeletons in triangular hats and carrying musical instruments taunting a skeleton bull. The text, in verse, conveys the slaying of the bull and speaks of death in general. México. Imp... More

Canal de la Viga, City of Mexico

In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 51149. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.

Canal de la Viga, City of Mexico

Historic Sites Public domain photograph of a canal, water landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aztec idol, Teoyaomiqui [Coatlicue (statue)], mammoth plate negative

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Central America History, Aztec, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Pre-Columbus America free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cargo of vegetables, Viga Canal, City of Mexico

Man poling boat laden with vegetable. D3646 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 10829.

[Mexican picnic, Mexico] / photo by Hugo Brehme, Mexico, D.F. - Frank ...

Two men with guitars, and woman, seated on ground. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.

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

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

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.

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

MEXICO. STREET SCENE IN MEXICO CITY

A black and white photo of a city street, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title and date from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 195... More

Mexico City - Feb. 1913: palace guard marching with spiked helmets and...

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Revolution against Madero government.

MEXICO. AMERICAN EMBASSY, MEXICO CITY

A black and white photo of a large building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. COPY. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 195... More

Mexico City - dead men & horses in street before National Palace, Feb....

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Shelf.

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.

Mexican Boy Scouts in Washington. Gregoria Garcia (left) and Jose Esco...

A couple of men standing next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General informat... More

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