[Mexico] [New Spain] Apodaca, Juan Ruiz de. Official proclamation dated July 5, 1821 announcing his resignation as Viceroy of New Spain during the final months of the Mexican War of Independence. Issued during a political crisis following the Plan of Iguala earlier that year, the document records the transfer of.....

[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.....

[Comics][Political Activism][Latin America] Archive of four issues of Argentine anti-authoritarian sci-fi comic El Eternauta by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, printed in Hora Cero anthologies, 1957-58. El Eternauta is a foundational work of Latin American science fiction created by writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld and artist Francisco Solano López. The story begins in.....

Baum, Allyn. Peru photo archive, a substantial working group of large original photographs and related New York Times material centered on Baum’s Peru assignments, significant for preserving a photographer’s own visual record of Andean and Amazonian travel, Indigenous communities, village life, and editorial circulation within mid twentieth century American newspaper.....

Rosario Gold Mine photograph archive documenting industrial labor, mining infrastructure, and community life in Honduras during the early twentieth century, produced circa 1910s–1920s. The images record activity surrounding the Rosario Gold Mine near Tegucigalpa, one of the most important foreign-operated mining enterprises in Central America during the late nineteenth and.....

Early twentieth century Mexico documented in photographs and real photo postcards depicting rural life, Indigenous labor, archaeological sites, and urban landscapes during the decades surrounding the Mexican Revolution. The images record scenes of everyday activity alongside monumental remains of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, illustrating the cultural landscape of Mexico during a......

[Latin America] [Travel] SS Resolute voyage photograph album, 1925, documenting a steamship journey through Central and South America during the interwar expansion of international maritime tourism following the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. The photographs record port cities, landscapes, and civic landmarks encountered along the Pacific and Atlantic.....

[South America] Gaucho photograph archive documenting cattle work, horsemanship, domestic life, and rural identity in Argentina Chile and Uruguay in the mid twentieth century, with direct evidence of how the older nomadic gaucho tradition had been absorbed into organized ranch labor and national folklore on the pampas.. The photographs were.....

Guatemala photo archive, dated 1938, documenting Indigenous Guatemalan dress, labor, market exchange, ceremonial space, village life, and ancient Mesoamerican ruins. The collection preserves a broad visual record of Indigenous daily life in Guatemala during the early twentieth century, when Maya and other Indigenous communities remained central to agricultural production, transportation.....

Indigenous South American real photo postcards and photographs of Bororo and Mapuche people in Brazil and Chile, circa 1900 to 1910, preserving early twentieth century views of Indigenous family life, dress, childhood, settlement, travel, and labor across several distinct communities. Bororo subjects in Mato Grosso appear in close portrait format.....

Panama City photograph archive, ca. 1920s, documenting the urban environment of the Panamanian capital and the infrastructure of the Panama Canal during the decades following the canal’s opening in 1914. The photographs record the interconnected worlds of canal engineering, international commerce, tourism, and everyday street life that developed as Panama.....

Peru glass lantern slide archive documenting Indigenous and rural life in the Perené and Cuzco, during a period where the political economy shaped was by export agriculture, regional extraction, and foreign institutional interest. In this period Peru was governed by a coastal elite tied to export markets and to the.....

Early twentieth century travel photo album, compiled by “Jake,”documents the working life and global mobility of a merchant ship crewman during the 1930s and 1940s, with sustained visual attention to port cities across Africa, the Americas, and the United States. The album supports research into maritime labor, informal American commercial.....