[Cuban Refugees] [Caravan of Sorrow] Miami Herald press photograph archive, 1960 to 1966, documents Cuban exile political organizing, refugee displacement, and United States federal response in South Florida across the critical period between the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966. The archive follows a defined sequence of.....
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.....
[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.....
Central Mexico photo archive depicting markets, transportation, public celebration, and regional life during the early postwar decades, when the social and economic reforms initiated after the Mexican Revolution continued to reshape the country while older commercial traditions remained firmly embedded in daily life. The photographs concentrate on the interaction between.....
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.....
Photographers unknown. Cuban rural photographs (early 20th century). This group documents agricultural labor, family life, and rural landscapes in Cuba prior to the Cuban Revolution, recording work practices and domestic environments tied to farming economies that shaped the island’s social structure. The images show ox-driven cultivation, tobacco production, and multi-generational.....
Group of Honduras plantation photographs, early twentieth century, by Wolfe (photographer), documenting agricultural development and infrastructure expansion at Toloa Plantation in northern Honduras. The images illustrate a system of export-oriented plantation agriculture, revealing how land clearing, transportation infrastructure, and administrative spaces were organized to support large-scale fruit production, and providing.....
Hernández Fajardo de Rodríguez, Concepción. Cocina y Repostería Práctica. Mérida, Yucatán: Cía. Tip. Yucateca / Imprenta “25 de Junio,” ca. 1930s. 10ª edición (Tomo I) and 1ª edición (Tomo II). Two volumes. Text in Spanish. Each volume bound in later cloth, one in black and one in red. A foundational.....
Municipal de Laredo lucha libre broadside, circa 1970s to 1980s, documents Mexican wrestling as borderlands popular culture and highlights the visibility of female luchadoras in a sport closely tied to performance, identity, and community spectacle. The broadside belongs to the cultural sphere of lucha libre, where masks, staged rivalries, athletic.....
Archive of photographs documenting the Panama Canal and Indigenous communities in Panama in the early twentieth century, ranging from the industrial landscape of the canal's construction and operation to the daily lives of Indigenous Panamanian peoples. The photographs reflect two intertwined yet often contrasting aspects of Panamanian history: the rise.....
San Juan photograph archive, 1950s, documents Puerto Rican civic landmarks, colonial architecture, schoolchildren, public parks, beaches, farmers, merchants, and transportation in the decade after the 1950 Nationalist uprising against United States authority. The group provides primary visual evidence of everyday life and public memory in Puerto Rico during a politically.....
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.....
Puerto Rico photo archive, circa 1910s and 1928, documents colonial-era social conditions and hurricane destruction in the decades after the United States took control of the island. The archive centers on two related subjects: a large group portrait of Puerto Rican adults and children gathered outside a long arched building.....
La Cocinera Poblana, o el Libro de las Familias. México: Herrero Hermanos Sucesores, 1921. Novena edición, corregida y aumentada. Original printed pictorial boards featuring a poblana woman in embroidered skirt beside a turkey, an iconic symbol of Puebla’s culinary identity and of the region’s famed mole poblano, one of Mexico’s.....
Archive of 15 stereoview photographs of Mexico published by the Keystone View Company around the turn of the twentieth century, documenting Mexican urban architecture, Indigenous labor, archaeological sites, and monumental landscapes during a period of modernization and expanding foreign visual interest in the country. Produced for the international stereograph market.....
[Chicano Activism] National La Raza Law Students Association. Four issues of Justicia O...!, the bilingual Los Angeles Chicano activist newspaper, covering Oscar Zeta Acosta, Rubén Salazar, the United Farm Workers, and the East Los Angeles Barrio Defense Committee from November 1970 to March 1971. Across these early issues, Justicia O..!.....
Mexican cowboy archive, circa 1910s to 1930s, documents vaquero dress, horsemanship, and public ranching culture in Mexico through four real photo postcards. The group matters as primary visual evidence of Mexican cowboy identity in the early twentieth century, with attention to clothing, tack, firearms, performance, and the social settings in.....
Diario Constitucional de Santiago de Cuba No. 57, November 1836, just months after the restoration of Spain's liberal Constitution of 1812. This newspaper records the transmission of Spanish constitutional government into eastern Cuba in late 1836 through decrees, ministerial correspondence, and public political dispute printed for circulation in Santiago de.....
Pepo’s Condorito comic book archive from 1987 to 1998, documenting the conversion of a Chilean working class character into a publishing franchise distributed across Latin America, Puerto Rico, and the United States. Created by René Ríos Boettiger in 1949 after he rejected Disney’s Pedrito as an inadequate representation of Chile.....
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.....
[Mexican-American] Our Badge of Infamy: A Petition to the United Nations on the Treatment of the Mexican Immigrant. New York: American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 1959. Original staple bound cream wrappers with black text. 48 pages. Measures 5" x 7.5". On April 17, 1959, a petition on the.....
[Latin America] Costa Rica photo archive of rural landscapes, plantations, and bustling ports circa 1910s. Archive of 11 original silver gelatin photographs, each measuring 4" x 2.5" , Each have a handwritten inscription en verso identifying locations and contextual details including San José, Cartago, Port Limón, and the “La Glory”.....
[Latin America] [Panama] Life in both urban Panama and the rural town of Chepo during the 1940s photo archive, with most prints dated to 1942. Archive of 17 items, 16 silver gelatin photographs measure 3.5" x 2.5" with one panoramic photo mounted on cardstock measuring 2.25" x 11". This archive.....
Wigginton, Peter D. Wigginton vs. Pacheco: Contested-Election Case of Wigginton vs. Pacheco (1878) documents federal adjudication of a disputed congressional election and establishes a critical record of Latino political participation in post–Mexican-American War California. Produced during the 45th Congress, this report centers on Romualdo Pacheco, a Californio politician who held.....
Blandina, Antonio. La Cocinera Vegetariana: Alimentación para sanos y regímenes dietéticos para enfermos. México, D.F.: Casa Eduardo Murguía / Centro Naturista de México, ca. 1920s. Illustrated vegetarian cookbook, 8vo, later quarter–cloth over decorative boards. A rare early Mexican naturopathic cookbook, subtitled “Extenso recetario ilustrado y con notas, dedicado… a la.....
