Camp Mabry and Texas personal photo album documenting prewar military camps, domestic and civic life in Austin and San Antonio, Arkansas political rally activity, and Mexico in 1936 and 1937, with direct evidence of how one compiler moved between troop grounds, private homes, city streets, and cross border travel before.....
González Obregón, Luis. El Pensador Mexicano: Diálogos sobre cosas de su tiempo, sacados del olvido. México: Cultura, 1918. First edition. T. VI, Num. 6. Illustrated cover by Valerio Prieto. 8vo, Original printed wrappers with an elaborate red-ink architectural design featuring an illustration of Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral. A rare issue.....
[Indigenous] [Linguistics] [Anthropology] Tozzer, Alfred Marston. A Comparative Study of the Mayas and the Lacandones (1907) and A Maya Grammar (1921), two early twentieth-century works that document Indigenous Maya language and lifeways while illustrating the methodological and ideological frameworks of U.S. anthropology in Mesoamerica. Produced through fieldwork conducted between 1902.....
Photographs of United States Army troops along the U.S.–Mexico border circa 1916 document military operations associated with the Pancho Villa Expedition led by John J. Pershing and record the deployment of cavalry and artillery units during a period of heightened border conflict. Produced in field conditions, these images capture soldiers.....
Archive of nine silver gelatin photographs documenting contestants and winners associated with the Señorita México beauty pageant between 1970 and 1971, preserving visual evidence of Mexican beauty culture and national representation during a period when the competition selected participants for major international pageants including Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss.....
[Mexico Photography] Sanborns Department Store opening photo album, 1953, documents the expansion of modern retail culture and commercial architecture in Mexico City during the postwar period of urban growth and economic modernization. Sanborns, founded in Mexico in 1903, became one of the country’s most visible retail institutions and a symbol.....
Extensively captioned Mexico Photo album documenting a American tourist from Arizona's 1945 journey to Mexico and other Mexican landmarks during the World War II era. Contains 158 silver gelatin vernacular photographs plus approximately 10 hand-colored prints and 10 pieces of tourist ephemera. Accompanied by long-form handwritten captions that comment on.....
Early 20th century Mexico real photo postcard archive documents urban development, regional architecture, and everyday life across multiple states during the final years of the Porfiriato and the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. Produced between the 1900s and 1920s, the group captures both infrastructural modernization and persistent rural lifeways across.....
Photograph album documenting a multi-location journey through Mexico City and surrounding regions in the late 1930s, presenting a sustained visual record of urban life, Indigenous communities, and regional landscapes during a period of post-revolutionary modernization. Comprising 52 original black-and-white photographs, the album captures both monumental architecture and everyday social environments.....
[Mexico] [Anthropology] Hinton, Thomas B., A Survey of Indian Assimilation in Eastern Sonora. Tucson: University of Arizona. No. 4, 1959. Black and white illustrations. 4to. 31 pages. Staple bound wrappers. The purpose of this bound research paper is to survey eastern Sonora in attempt to determine what remains of the.....
Mid-century Mexico photo archive of markets, colonial architecture, rural households, and regional custom, recording Mexico everyday labor, Indigenous craft, traditional dress, and iconic national scenery. The photos primarily show on the ground local customs, basket vendors seated behind stacks of woven wares, pottery sellers in street market display, women posed.....
Unknown photographers, early twentieth-century Mexico rural life and Indigenous culture photo archive, circa 1900s to 1910s, documents rural labor, Indigenous presence, domestic food production, architectural memory, and foreign economic interest in Mexico during a period of modernization and political upheaval. The photographs capture lived experience across several settings rather than.....
[Mexico] Travels throughout Mexico in 1969 by Western tourists, two older women identified as "Joan" and "Eve". Archive of 23 original color photographs documenting various rural and city locations within Mexico. These images capture a cross-section of urban, cultural, and historic sites at the cusp of Mexico’s late 1960s modernization.....
Photographic album of an American family’s travels in 1940 and 1941 documents cross regional movement through Mexico, Nova Scotia, and the United States, with a sustained visual record of Mexican landscapes, labor, and public life at the beginning of the 1940s. The album, titled in manuscript “MEXICO 1941,” includes detailed.....
[Mexico] Mexico and Mexico border early 20th century photo archive. 38 images total, including 22 hand-tinted lithographic scenes from 11 double-sided perforated travel-album postcards, plus 16 loose photographs and real photo postcards; most measuring 3.5" x 5.5". A visually rich assemblage documenting Mexican urban, rural, and border life from the.....
[Mexico] [Photography] Vernacular photograph album documenting daily life, labor, and civic culture in Mexico and California, 1906–1908, with substantial visual material from the late Porfirian era preceding the Mexican Revolution. The album records markets, religious architecture, rural labor, and public spectacle across central Mexico, alongside views of communities in the.....
[Mexican Revolution] “Mr. and Mrs. St. Morris” photograph album tracing an American couple’s movement from New York to Cuba and into Mexico during the unsettled years of the Mexican Revolution, ending with resettlement in Colorado by 1916 and anchored throughout by identified participants and a strong run of contemporaneous documentary.....
[Women’s Suffrage] [Americana]. Senate Article on Woman Suffrage Introduced in United States Senate by Hon. Thomas B. Catron Senator from New Mexico Feburary 19, 1917. In paper wrappers. 9.5” x 6” inches. 16 pages. Article presented to the Senate by New Mexico senator, Thomas B. Catron. Contents include sections on.....
Vernacular photograph album of Mexico, 1905, documents rural life, landscape, and social interaction during the presidency of Porfirio Díaz, a period marked by foreign investment, regional development, and widening social stratification. The images place Mexican and European or mestizo subjects within village, agricultural, and travel settings, capturing both everyday activity.....
[Texas History][Borderlands] U.S.-Mexico borderlands photograph album, 1905-1906, centered on El Paso and Juárez, with additional views in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, and Alaska. The album documents an early twentieth-century traveler’s movement through the southern border of the U.S., when El Paso and Ciudad Juárez were being promoted through rail.....
Mexico photo archive, group of 30 postcards dating from the early 1900s through the 1920s, documenting urban, rural, and cultural life during the late Porfirian and early Revolutionary periods. The material captures a wide range of environments and activities, including marketplaces, transportation systems, ceremonial performances, and natural landmarks, providing visual.....
Illicit Traffic in Weapons and Drugs Across the United States-Mexican Border. Washington D.C: US Government Printing Office. 12 January 1977. First edition. 107 pages, 9" x 6." Original staple bound wrappers. Transcript of hearings held in California and Texas, complete with photographic evidence, all black-and-white. The pictures show Cuban drug.....
Unknown photographer, postrevolutionary Mexico daily life photo archive, 1922, documents rural and regional scenes in Mexico shortly after the Revolution and supports research into Indigenous representation, campesino life, foreign travel photography, gendered domestic labor, and the visual culture of postrevolutionary nationhood. The Mexican Revolution, usually dated from 1910 to 1920.....
