PICT 996-001
File — Box: 6, Folder: 41
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This collection consists of photographs, created in Mexico, depicting a wide variety of subjects. Notable items are portraits and informal pictures of Mexican Revolutionary War figures, folk theatre, dance, and music events, cartes-de-visite from the 19th century, and Pre-Columbian sites and artifacts.
Some famous photographers represented in the collection are Hugo Brehme, A. Briquet, Cruces y Campa, Fotografia Daguerre Studio, M. de Haaff, Guillermo Kahlo, and C. B. Waite.
PICT 986-020 (circa 1900s, 1960s): Stamped “R. Carrillo G. JR.” and “Courtesy Mexican Government Tourism Department”. Taxco; Arbol del tule; Arbol de la noche triste; Oaxaca; Michoacan; fiestas; agriculture; Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City; cityscapes; churches
PICT 986-021 (1864 - 1912): Multiple portraits addressed to Allen Dosse, many from studios in Veracruz. Portraits: men; women; children; groups; hand-colored; carte-de-visite; Agustina Gual de Stelling and Ana María Stelling Gual; Julia L. de Schauz; soldier; Luis Melendez; M. Luna Melendez; Martin J. Lopez; Don Manuel Breton de los Herreros (etching reproduction); Maria Penolas; Juana Lotera; Pedro Lavala; Luis Caso; Pedro Reguera; Leonor Ortiz; Josefina Audiffred
PICT 986-022 (circa 1900): Mitla; Monte Alban; Acambalam; Uxmal; Chichen Itza; pre-Columbian sculpture; Kabah; Labna; etc.
PICT 986-023 (1892 – 1951): Plaza de Pátzcuaro, Michoacán; indigenous Aztec couple from Cuetzalan; Descendants of the family Tlaxcalteca; mercados; agriculture; churches; portraits; lavanderia, Chihuahua; pre-Columbian sculptures; Mitla ruins; Prof. Luis Chavez Orozco; palace of Ichpich; Chichen Itza; Fiesta de Los Angeles; Zocalo y Catedral; procession; Viga canal; portrait of a dog; cityscapes; General Carlos Pacheco; Taxco; waterfalls; Botica Morelos; Colégio Militar; Nicolas Rangel; El Chanal Colima
PICT 986-024 (circa 1910s): Stamped “Central de informacion periodistica”. Alameda; folk performances; baile de los gigantes; cityscapes; passion play; templo del señor de chalma
PICT 986-025 (1860-1899): Carte-de-visite of generals; presidents; couples; men; women; children; military; Antonio Morales; man in kepi hat; Antonio Peredilla; General Luis G. Osollo; George Washington; Eugenia Holder; men selling handicrafts; indigenous people; man selling candles; Native Americans; Ana Vilar y Cejudo; hand-colored; Doctor D. Manuel Carpio; Basilica de Santa Maria de Guadalupe; waterfall; fountain; Kaiser Frederick III; Concepcion Morales; Napoléon Bonaparte; child in military uniform; Titian; cemetery in Querétaro. Photographs removed from album for preservation and informational reasons.
PICT 986-026 (1863-1907): Carte-de-visite of street coffee seller; indigenous woman; woman ironing; cobbler; basket seller; man caning chair; various occupations; pre-Columbian sculpture; Antonio Peredilla; wedding portrait; Los Procesados Por El Asesinato De Arnulfo Arroyo; Salto de Juanacatlan, Jalisco; portraits of performers; boats on river, Xochimilco; Chichen Itza; Tepoztlán, pre-Columbian sculpture; fossils; Mitla; Xochicalco; Santiago de Querétaro cityscape; Templo de San Francisco, Querétaro; Jardin Zenea, Querétaro; El Templo de Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Querétaro; Historia Convento Capuchinas; Sacromonte, Amecameca; Augustin Rivera; zoologist, Dr. Don Jesus Sanchez
PICT 986-027 (1884-1936): Palacio Nacional; Taxco; cityscapes; Chilapa de Álvarez; Chilpancingo; mercado, Chiapa de Corzo; Escuela Normal para Profesores, Chiapas; construction; La Pila fountain (Chiapa de Corzo); Tuxtla Gutiérrez buildings, etc.; Belisario Dominguez bridge; Pueblo Ayotla; Guanajuato; Temple and Convent of San Agustín de Querétaro; Chihuahua; bridges; Puerto de Manzanillo; Jicaltepec; Chichen Itza; reproduction group portraits of the Marques de la Victoria, Don Joaquin Navarro, Don Juan Topete, Señor Valcárcel, Don Claudio Alvar-Gonzalez, Don Manuel de la Pezuela, Mendez Nunez; Hotel San Diego, Cuautla; girl on horse
PICT 986-028 (1862, circa 1910): Cityscapes; parades; portraits; health spa; churches; street scenes; interiors; dams; mining; celebrations; dining; postcards of drawings
PICT 986-029 (1878 – 1927): Portraits of Maria Rodriguez de Alonso; Senora Bruz; Descendants of the family Tlaxcalteca; Emilia Acosta; Pedro Torreblanca; Adolfo Guttierez; Maria A. de Rodriguez; José Martínez; Lic. Jose Lopez Portillo y Rojas; Don Pedro Camino Ruiz; Henri Goiran; theater group in drag
PICT 986-030 (1890s-1940s): Venustiano Carranza; Francisco I. Madero; Pancho Villa; Eufemio Zapata; Victoriano Huerta; Adolfo de la Huerta; General Álvaro Obregón; Plutarco Elías Calles; Francisco Lagos Cházaro; banquets; soldiers; canons; soldier wearing bandolier; Félix Díaz Velasco; Pascual Ortiz Rubio; Captain Emilio Carranza; Colonel Roberto Fierro; Colonel Pablo L. Sidar; Ignacio Zaragoza; General Mariano Arista; Árbol del Tule; La Posada del Emperador, Oaxtepec; Mexico City street; butterflies
PICT 986-031 (1883-1921): Centennial parade; floats; Casa de Huespedes, Mérida; canons; Catholic mass; mummies; early airplane; interior of Templo de Santo Domingo, Oaxaca; postcard drawing of General Vicente Guerrero; Mexico independence postcard; postcard drawing of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla; General Mariano Arista; Anthony Mary Claret; Destructor ship; Blanca ship; drawings of street scenes, woods, markets, churches, Hernán Cortés; statue of Cuauhtémoc
PICT 986-032 (unknown, 1922): Oaxaca; Mitla; Tlacolula; Mecateros indigenas; Iglesia de San Bartolome; wells; Árbol del Tule; San Bartolomé Quialana; sheep; indigenous dwelling; indigenous people; wagons; mayor and secretary of Matatlan Tlacolula; Monumento a Benito Juarez; children; drummer; Zapotec peoples; making rope; Zaachila
PICT 986-033 (1853-1903, 1950s): 11 photos related to 986-028 including street scenes; ranch life; agriculture; hacienda. Portraits of men, women, children, groups. Some stamped “Courtesy Mexican Government Tourism Department”. La Catedral de Zacatecas; Iglesia de Santo Domingo; Zacatecas cityscape; Templo de San Hipólito; Jose Maria Leyva Cajeme; Julia L. de Schauz; Joaquin Tevechilla; Luisa Escolar; man dressed as Bacchus; Mariol Torres; nuns; Chichen Itza; Tula ruins; pre-Columbian sculpture
PICT 986-034 (1909, 1933): Tornado damage to the Tampico plaza; Tampico flood; Miramar, Tampico; street scenes; El Valle Azul flooded by waves
PICT 986-035 (1912-1930s): Group portraits; Dr. Ignacio Duran; interior of a museum; soldiers; sombrero; group portrait of “general winners” in the interior of the citadel; protest; General Santiago Ramirez; ofrenda against a wall; canons; banquet in honor of Ing. D. Ignacio L. de la Barra; banquets; soldier wearing bandolier; courtroom; Colonel Porfirio Díaz; José María Leyva Cajeme; José Azueta; Miguel Abarca (child soldier); Ing. Manuel Bonilla; General Pascual Orozco; Enrique C Creel; Mexican politicians and military; President Don Emilio Portes Gil; Engineer Alberto Robles Gil; Maclovio Herrera; General Salvador Alvarado; R.P. Miguel Agustin Pro, S.J.; General Ocaranza; General Gustavo Maass; Ramon Fraustro; General Pablo González Garza; Victoriano Huerta; General Manuel Mondragón; General F. Diaz; General Aureliano Blanquet; Porfirio Díaz; Lázaro Cárdenas; General Álvaro Obregón; General M. Espinosa; Adolfo de la Huerta; Plutarco Elías Calles; Natalia Chacón de Calles; Venustiano Carranza; Francisco I. Madero; Emiliano Zapata; drawings of the revolution by Francisco de P. Mendoza
PICT 986-036 (unknown, 1906): Pre-Columbian sculptures; Cholula; Monte Albán caretaker and casita; group portraits; Sociedad Hidalguense
PICT 990-011 (1887, circa 1900): Turrill Photographer, The Rochester Photo, Hugo Brehme. Rosario, Lower California; artists’ camp, Rosario Valley; Socorro Camp; whale rib; Castle Rock; coffee harvest; banyan tree, Sinaloa; orange tree; El Ángel de la Independencia
PICT 991-012 (unknown): Ink drawing of a mariachi musician; etching reproduction of Venustiano Carranza and Álvaro Obregón
PICT 991-017 (1907): Rubber plants; Zacatecas cityscape; hospital, Aguascalientes
PICT 991-035 (circa 1890): Lavanderas, Mexico City; street scene, Mexico City; cactus hedge; coffee plantation; street scene, Cuautla
PICT 994-037 (1920): Group portrait (including President E.L. Hewitt) of the Association for the Advancement of Science, Southwest Division, Juárez
PICT 996-001 (1880s - 1950s): Iglesia y puente, Coyoacán; Uxmal; Malinalco; Teotihuacan; Tenayuca; crumbling ancient wall in the desert; cityscape; thatched huts; seascapes; rivers; landscapes; Iztaccihuatl; road to Mexico City; Cenote Kaua; portraits; hunter with deer; elephants at zoo; Pre-Columbian sculptures; museum storage room; La Quemada; Antiguo Museo de Anthropologia; Mitla; Tula; Monte Alban; Chichen Itza; irrigation canals; agriculture; textile manufacturing; architecture; plazuela; pumpkins lining rooftop; villages; Colegio Vizcaínas de San Ignacio de Loyola; La Calzada de los Misterios; Un Convento Antiguo, Tlalamanalco; trains; transportation; carriages, cars, ferries; Quanza ship, Portugal; road-rail vehicle, Texcoco; street car; Carroza de Huamtnla, Churubusco; coach of Maximilian I of Mexico; mosque; street scenes; gazebo; Hotel Los Arcos, Taxco; Calzada de Tlalnepantla; cyanotypes; markets; men in sombreros; bullfight; bedroom; Querétaro church interior; interior church details; churches; San Francisco de Cholula, Puebla; Cupolas, Chapel Royal, Saint Gabriel convent; Nuestra Señora de Ocotlán, Tlaxcala; Iglesia de San Martín de Tepotzotlán; El Templo de Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Querétaro; Cañada Morelos; Templo de Santa Clara, Querétaro; hymnals; mummies; church interiors; street scenes; ruins of an old church in San Sebastian, Jalisco; Templo de Santo Tomás la Palma; man wearing sombrero and poncho; Shrine of San Miguel Del Milagro, Tlaxcala; church construction; unidentified churches; Colegiata de Guadalupe; walled village with church and thatched roofs; “Epoca Prehispanica” carved stone wall panel; photo of drawing of girl holding paper; Monumento a Doña Josefa Ortiz; occupation of Veracruz; United States’ camp at Veracruz; US soldiers on donkeys; wounded soldier at Veracruz; Congress of farmers in the state of Veracruz; political rallies; Hacienda de Las Ánimas, Fortín ,Veracruz; plowing at Hacienda la Monte Blanco, Cordoba; workers gather to commemorate the first anniversary of the murder of peasants, Deputy Eduardo Cortina to lay the cornerstone of a new school, Veracruz; Vicente Fabriz beside train engine; farmers gather at cemetery to remember massacre, Orizaba, Córdoba; Amado Nervo; Guadalupe y Maria Luisa Carrasco y Collada; General Juan Carrasco and family; child in Pierrot clown costume; dams; agriculture; group portraits; costume party; men with playing cards; mercantile; La Barra de Tampico cyclist club; barber shop; group kneeling by cross; polo players; group of girls behind bars, Tampico; bicycles; General Ramón Corona memorial; statue, Tapalpa; grapevines; cityscape, Chiapas; river pier, Pichucalco, Chiapas; ruins of Copainala, Chiapas; chandeliers covered in the ex-communicated La Merced Church, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas; young woman selling pottery; church in Chihuahua; Tajo de Nochistongo; ravines in Colima; harvesting coconuts in Colima; train bridge, Colima; train tracks in Iguala. Guerrero; a street in Acapulco; Iglesia de Acapulco; ferry on Rio Balsas; church in Iguala; Tierra Colorada; mine in La Luz, Guerrero; mine in Guanajuato; river in Guanajuato; home of Miguel Hidalgo, Guanajuato; saguaros in Mazatlán; Tizayuca; vista de Pachuca; Actopan; Lake Chapala; El Salto de Juanacatlán; Museo Casa de Morelos; Ecatepec; waterfall, Jalisco; beach scenes, cityscapes, Jalisco; Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Talpa, Guadalajara, Jalisco; street scene, Capulhuac; Castillo de Capulhuac; attack of Capulhuac, 1847 (photo of drawing); monument, Capulhuac; liberty bell of Mexico; Palacio Nacional; boats docked on river; fountain, Puente del Salto de Agua; snakehead carving on wall corner, Tlalpan; fuente de la ranita (lute playing frog fountain); Monument to Cuauhtémoc; Quaker Oats billboard, Mexico City; Carcel Genera; (jail); Cuartel de Peralvillo; courtyard; Borda House (house of Joseph de Laborde); Villa de Guadalupe (temple del Cerrito); Tlaquepaque; Hotel Metropolitan, Mexico City; furniture store/gallery; ruins, Tlalpan; cigar factory; Calle de Nezahualcoyotl; Cuajimalpa de Morelos; parade in Mexico City outside Hotel Tarditi; fountains and parks, Mexico City; spring of Jesus, Tlalpan; Panteón Francés; San Pedro Atocpan; agave plants along road; cobblestone layers; streetcars, Ayuntamiento; courtyard of the Museo Nacional; Camales, Xochimilco; Gran Teatro Nacional; Departmento de Pesas y Medidas; ducks; Cuernavaca; Casa Borda, Cuernavaca; cityscape, Cuernavaca; home of José de la Borda; Hotel Morelos, Cuernavaca; Fuertes de Loreto; Pico de Orizaba; church, Orizaba; Parque Paseo Bravo, Puebla; Grijalva River; Frontera, Tamaulipas; industrial; home on lake, Tamaulipas; hikers; inspecting train tracks, Tamaulipas; Valle de Santiago, Tamaulipas; church, Tampico; embarcadero, Tampico; street scene, Tampico; Río Tamesí, Tampico; Paróquia de Tlaxcala, Puebla; dam, Orizaba; Paróquia, Orizaba; canyon, Xico Railway, Veracruz; Camino Mexico, Veracruz; deer, Orizaba; Edificio para Direccion de Faros, Veracruz; Cenote, Valladolid, Yucatán; old convent ruins, Valladolid; Iglesia de la Candelaria, Valladolid; Tahdzin, Yucatan; San Sebastian, Mérida; street scenes, Merida; masonic temple, Merida; Dzitás; Muna; Dzibilchaltun; Conkal; Iglesia de San Cristobal, Merida
PICT 996-002 (circa 1900): El Carnaval, Merida; canal; industry
PICT 996-013 (circa 1900s-1920s) Calle del Empedradillo; Aztec calendar; Panteón Guanajuato; Vista de Leon; Plaza Aguascalientes; entrada de la fabrica de Hercules; Nopales y Organos; Lavanderas Aguascalientes; Zapatero Aguascalientes; making and selling tortillas; Pyramid of the Sun
PICT 996-014 (circa 1890): Ojuela Mine and the smelting works of Mapimi, Durango, Mexico; Mapimi cityscape
PICT 996-024(circa 1890s): Stamped “Parker, El Paso, TX” and “M.J. Kohlberg, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico”. Guadelupe Church, Paso del Norte, Mexico; Mexican Jacal; Embarcacion de la Viga; Canoa con Verdura; butchered meat on burros
PICT 996-027 (circa 1900): Popocatépetl National Park; iztaccihuatl desde amecameca; Patio del Hotel de Iturbide (yturbide); Castillo de Chapultepec; Basílica de Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos, series of 7 photos of a Mexico City bullfight by C.B. Waite featuring torero Mazzantini
PICT 996-034 (1917, 1923): Pancho Villa with bandelier on horse; Pancho Villa's dead body hanging out of a car, Parral
PICT 997-004 (circa 1900): Guadalajara pottery; children; Post-mortem photo of infant; boy smoking cigar
PICT 998-005 (circa 1890s): Souvenir prints. Photographers: Waite and Scot. Guanajuato; Mexico City; President Diaz; monuments; Viga canal; Mexican lavanderia; agave harvest; mummies at Pantheon
PICT 2000-001 (1893, 1913): Mexican revolution, Cuernavaca; Huerta’s insurrection over Madero, Mexico City [pile of burning bodies]; dead men and horse in Zocalo; train derailment; Guaymas cityscape
Miscellaneous PICT 986-036, PICT 989-031, PICT 990-023, PICT 995-024, PICT 996-004, PICT 996-034, PICT 2005-024 (1890s-1928, 1995): Valentin G. Hariaz; pre-Columbian sculpture; men in cluttered room in Cananea; Chihuahua City; Eugenio Ruiz Orozco; contact sheet of Oaxaca street scenes and posters; bridge between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez; Ciudad Juarez homes and businesses; descendants of the family Tlaxcalteca; 3 booklets entitled “Remember the state of Oaxaca, second national congress of roads, 1928” each contains images of people and places of Oaxaca
Box 12 Additions: Added in 2017, this box contains recent additions to the collection. Folder 1 includes an album of 47 photographs from a January 1939 trip by American tourists. The automotive trip down the Pan-American Highway captures various tourist destinations including the Court of Quetzalcoatl, the colonial church at Acolman, Mexico City, Puebla, Acapulco, Taxco, Toluca and back to the states through Saltillo and Monterey. Also of interest are photographs of Max Meth, Mexico City Police detective and the photographer "Reilly." Folder 2 includes a group portrait of twenty members of the Communist Party of Mexico circa 1925, including David Alfaro Siquieros. Twelve individuals have signed the back of the photograph, including Manuel Diaz Lorenzo, Rafael Carrillo and Rosendo Gomez Lorenzo.
Some famous photographers represented in the collection are Hugo Brehme, A. Briquet, Cruces y Campa, Fotografia Daguerre Studio, M. de Haaff, Guillermo Kahlo, and C. B. Waite.
PICT 986-020 (circa 1900s, 1960s): Stamped “R. Carrillo G. JR.” and “Courtesy Mexican Government Tourism Department”. Taxco; Arbol del tule; Arbol de la noche triste; Oaxaca; Michoacan; fiestas; agriculture; Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City; cityscapes; churches
PICT 986-021 (1864 - 1912): Multiple portraits addressed to Allen Dosse, many from studios in Veracruz. Portraits: men; women; children; groups; hand-colored; carte-de-visite; Agustina Gual de Stelling and Ana María Stelling Gual; Julia L. de Schauz; soldier; Luis Melendez; M. Luna Melendez; Martin J. Lopez; Don Manuel Breton de los Herreros (etching reproduction); Maria Penolas; Juana Lotera; Pedro Lavala; Luis Caso; Pedro Reguera; Leonor Ortiz; Josefina Audiffred
PICT 986-022 (circa 1900): Mitla; Monte Alban; Acambalam; Uxmal; Chichen Itza; pre-Columbian sculpture; Kabah; Labna; etc.
PICT 986-023 (1892 – 1951): Plaza de Pátzcuaro, Michoacán; indigenous Aztec couple from Cuetzalan; Descendants of the family Tlaxcalteca; mercados; agriculture; churches; portraits; lavanderia, Chihuahua; pre-Columbian sculptures; Mitla ruins; Prof. Luis Chavez Orozco; palace of Ichpich; Chichen Itza; Fiesta de Los Angeles; Zocalo y Catedral; procession; Viga canal; portrait of a dog; cityscapes; General Carlos Pacheco; Taxco; waterfalls; Botica Morelos; Colégio Militar; Nicolas Rangel; El Chanal Colima
PICT 986-024 (circa 1910s): Stamped “Central de informacion periodistica”. Alameda; folk performances; baile de los gigantes; cityscapes; passion play; templo del señor de chalma
PICT 986-025 (1860-1899): Carte-de-visite of generals; presidents; couples; men; women; children; military; Antonio Morales; man in kepi hat; Antonio Peredilla; General Luis G. Osollo; George Washington; Eugenia Holder; men selling handicrafts; indigenous people; man selling candles; Native Americans; Ana Vilar y Cejudo; hand-colored; Doctor D. Manuel Carpio; Basilica de Santa Maria de Guadalupe; waterfall; fountain; Kaiser Frederick III; Concepcion Morales; Napoléon Bonaparte; child in military uniform; Titian; cemetery in Querétaro. Photographs removed from album for preservation and informational reasons.
PICT 986-026 (1863-1907): Carte-de-visite of street coffee seller; indigenous woman; woman ironing; cobbler; basket seller; man caning chair; various occupations; pre-Columbian sculpture; Antonio Peredilla; wedding portrait; Los Procesados Por El Asesinato De Arnulfo Arroyo; Salto de Juanacatlan, Jalisco; portraits of performers; boats on river, Xochimilco; Chichen Itza; Tepoztlán, pre-Columbian sculpture; fossils; Mitla; Xochicalco; Santiago de Querétaro cityscape; Templo de San Francisco, Querétaro; Jardin Zenea, Querétaro; El Templo de Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Querétaro; Historia Convento Capuchinas; Sacromonte, Amecameca; Augustin Rivera; zoologist, Dr. Don Jesus Sanchez
PICT 986-027 (1884-1936): Palacio Nacional; Taxco; cityscapes; Chilapa de Álvarez; Chilpancingo; mercado, Chiapa de Corzo; Escuela Normal para Profesores, Chiapas; construction; La Pila fountain (Chiapa de Corzo); Tuxtla Gutiérrez buildings, etc.; Belisario Dominguez bridge; Pueblo Ayotla; Guanajuato; Temple and Convent of San Agustín de Querétaro; Chihuahua; bridges; Puerto de Manzanillo; Jicaltepec; Chichen Itza; reproduction group portraits of the Marques de la Victoria, Don Joaquin Navarro, Don Juan Topete, Señor Valcárcel, Don Claudio Alvar-Gonzalez, Don Manuel de la Pezuela, Mendez Nunez; Hotel San Diego, Cuautla; girl on horse
PICT 986-028 (1862, circa 1910): Cityscapes; parades; portraits; health spa; churches; street scenes; interiors; dams; mining; celebrations; dining; postcards of drawings
PICT 986-029 (1878 – 1927): Portraits of Maria Rodriguez de Alonso; Senora Bruz; Descendants of the family Tlaxcalteca; Emilia Acosta; Pedro Torreblanca; Adolfo Guttierez; Maria A. de Rodriguez; José Martínez; Lic. Jose Lopez Portillo y Rojas; Don Pedro Camino Ruiz; Henri Goiran; theater group in drag
PICT 986-030 (1890s-1940s): Venustiano Carranza; Francisco I. Madero; Pancho Villa; Eufemio Zapata; Victoriano Huerta; Adolfo de la Huerta; General Álvaro Obregón; Plutarco Elías Calles; Francisco Lagos Cházaro; banquets; soldiers; canons; soldier wearing bandolier; Félix Díaz Velasco; Pascual Ortiz Rubio; Captain Emilio Carranza; Colonel Roberto Fierro; Colonel Pablo L. Sidar; Ignacio Zaragoza; General Mariano Arista; Árbol del Tule; La Posada del Emperador, Oaxtepec; Mexico City street; butterflies
PICT 986-031 (1883-1921): Centennial parade; floats; Casa de Huespedes, Mérida; canons; Catholic mass; mummies; early airplane; interior of Templo de Santo Domingo, Oaxaca; postcard drawing of General Vicente Guerrero; Mexico independence postcard; postcard drawing of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla; General Mariano Arista; Anthony Mary Claret; Destructor ship; Blanca ship; drawings of street scenes, woods, markets, churches, Hernán Cortés; statue of Cuauhtémoc
PICT 986-032 (unknown, 1922): Oaxaca; Mitla; Tlacolula; Mecateros indigenas; Iglesia de San Bartolome; wells; Árbol del Tule; San Bartolomé Quialana; sheep; indigenous dwelling; indigenous people; wagons; mayor and secretary of Matatlan Tlacolula; Monumento a Benito Juarez; children; drummer; Zapotec peoples; making rope; Zaachila
PICT 986-033 (1853-1903, 1950s): 11 photos related to 986-028 including street scenes; ranch life; agriculture; hacienda. Portraits of men, women, children, groups. Some stamped “Courtesy Mexican Government Tourism Department”. La Catedral de Zacatecas; Iglesia de Santo Domingo; Zacatecas cityscape; Templo de San Hipólito; Jose Maria Leyva Cajeme; Julia L. de Schauz; Joaquin Tevechilla; Luisa Escolar; man dressed as Bacchus; Mariol Torres; nuns; Chichen Itza; Tula ruins; pre-Columbian sculpture
PICT 986-034 (1909, 1933): Tornado damage to the Tampico plaza; Tampico flood; Miramar, Tampico; street scenes; El Valle Azul flooded by waves
PICT 986-035 (1912-1930s): Group portraits; Dr. Ignacio Duran; interior of a museum; soldiers; sombrero; group portrait of “general winners” in the interior of the citadel; protest; General Santiago Ramirez; ofrenda against a wall; canons; banquet in honor of Ing. D. Ignacio L. de la Barra; banquets; soldier wearing bandolier; courtroom; Colonel Porfirio Díaz; José María Leyva Cajeme; José Azueta; Miguel Abarca (child soldier); Ing. Manuel Bonilla; General Pascual Orozco; Enrique C Creel; Mexican politicians and military; President Don Emilio Portes Gil; Engineer Alberto Robles Gil; Maclovio Herrera; General Salvador Alvarado; R.P. Miguel Agustin Pro, S.J.; General Ocaranza; General Gustavo Maass; Ramon Fraustro; General Pablo González Garza; Victoriano Huerta; General Manuel Mondragón; General F. Diaz; General Aureliano Blanquet; Porfirio Díaz; Lázaro Cárdenas; General Álvaro Obregón; General M. Espinosa; Adolfo de la Huerta; Plutarco Elías Calles; Natalia Chacón de Calles; Venustiano Carranza; Francisco I. Madero; Emiliano Zapata; drawings of the revolution by Francisco de P. Mendoza
PICT 986-036 (unknown, 1906): Pre-Columbian sculptures; Cholula; Monte Albán caretaker and casita; group portraits; Sociedad Hidalguense
PICT 990-011 (1887, circa 1900): Turrill Photographer, The Rochester Photo, Hugo Brehme. Rosario, Lower California; artists’ camp, Rosario Valley; Socorro Camp; whale rib; Castle Rock; coffee harvest; banyan tree, Sinaloa; orange tree; El Ángel de la Independencia
PICT 991-012 (unknown): Ink drawing of a mariachi musician; etching reproduction of Venustiano Carranza and Álvaro Obregón
PICT 991-017 (1907): Rubber plants; Zacatecas cityscape; hospital, Aguascalientes
PICT 991-035 (circa 1890): Lavanderas, Mexico City; street scene, Mexico City; cactus hedge; coffee plantation; street scene, Cuautla
PICT 994-037 (1920): Group portrait (including President E.L. Hewitt) of the Association for the Advancement of Science, Southwest Division, Juárez
PICT 996-001 (1880s - 1950s): Iglesia y puente, Coyoacán; Uxmal; Malinalco; Teotihuacan; Tenayuca; crumbling ancient wall in the desert; cityscape; thatched huts; seascapes; rivers; landscapes; Iztaccihuatl; road to Mexico City; Cenote Kaua; portraits; hunter with deer; elephants at zoo; Pre-Columbian sculptures; museum storage room; La Quemada; Antiguo Museo de Anthropologia; Mitla; Tula; Monte Alban; Chichen Itza; irrigation canals; agriculture; textile manufacturing; architecture; plazuela; pumpkins lining rooftop; villages; Colegio Vizcaínas de San Ignacio de Loyola; La Calzada de los Misterios; Un Convento Antiguo, Tlalamanalco; trains; transportation; carriages, cars, ferries; Quanza ship, Portugal; road-rail vehicle, Texcoco; street car; Carroza de Huamtnla, Churubusco; coach of Maximilian I of Mexico; mosque; street scenes; gazebo; Hotel Los Arcos, Taxco; Calzada de Tlalnepantla; cyanotypes; markets; men in sombreros; bullfight; bedroom; Querétaro church interior; interior church details; churches; San Francisco de Cholula, Puebla; Cupolas, Chapel Royal, Saint Gabriel convent; Nuestra Señora de Ocotlán, Tlaxcala; Iglesia de San Martín de Tepotzotlán; El Templo de Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Querétaro; Cañada Morelos; Templo de Santa Clara, Querétaro; hymnals; mummies; church interiors; street scenes; ruins of an old church in San Sebastian, Jalisco; Templo de Santo Tomás la Palma; man wearing sombrero and poncho; Shrine of San Miguel Del Milagro, Tlaxcala; church construction; unidentified churches; Colegiata de Guadalupe; walled village with church and thatched roofs; “Epoca Prehispanica” carved stone wall panel; photo of drawing of girl holding paper; Monumento a Doña Josefa Ortiz; occupation of Veracruz; United States’ camp at Veracruz; US soldiers on donkeys; wounded soldier at Veracruz; Congress of farmers in the state of Veracruz; political rallies; Hacienda de Las Ánimas, Fortín ,Veracruz; plowing at Hacienda la Monte Blanco, Cordoba; workers gather to commemorate the first anniversary of the murder of peasants, Deputy Eduardo Cortina to lay the cornerstone of a new school, Veracruz; Vicente Fabriz beside train engine; farmers gather at cemetery to remember massacre, Orizaba, Córdoba; Amado Nervo; Guadalupe y Maria Luisa Carrasco y Collada; General Juan Carrasco and family; child in Pierrot clown costume; dams; agriculture; group portraits; costume party; men with playing cards; mercantile; La Barra de Tampico cyclist club; barber shop; group kneeling by cross; polo players; group of girls behind bars, Tampico; bicycles; General Ramón Corona memorial; statue, Tapalpa; grapevines; cityscape, Chiapas; river pier, Pichucalco, Chiapas; ruins of Copainala, Chiapas; chandeliers covered in the ex-communicated La Merced Church, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas; young woman selling pottery; church in Chihuahua; Tajo de Nochistongo; ravines in Colima; harvesting coconuts in Colima; train bridge, Colima; train tracks in Iguala. Guerrero; a street in Acapulco; Iglesia de Acapulco; ferry on Rio Balsas; church in Iguala; Tierra Colorada; mine in La Luz, Guerrero; mine in Guanajuato; river in Guanajuato; home of Miguel Hidalgo, Guanajuato; saguaros in Mazatlán; Tizayuca; vista de Pachuca; Actopan; Lake Chapala; El Salto de Juanacatlán; Museo Casa de Morelos; Ecatepec; waterfall, Jalisco; beach scenes, cityscapes, Jalisco; Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Talpa, Guadalajara, Jalisco; street scene, Capulhuac; Castillo de Capulhuac; attack of Capulhuac, 1847 (photo of drawing); monument, Capulhuac; liberty bell of Mexico; Palacio Nacional; boats docked on river; fountain, Puente del Salto de Agua; snakehead carving on wall corner, Tlalpan; fuente de la ranita (lute playing frog fountain); Monument to Cuauhtémoc; Quaker Oats billboard, Mexico City; Carcel Genera; (jail); Cuartel de Peralvillo; courtyard; Borda House (house of Joseph de Laborde); Villa de Guadalupe (temple del Cerrito); Tlaquepaque; Hotel Metropolitan, Mexico City; furniture store/gallery; ruins, Tlalpan; cigar factory; Calle de Nezahualcoyotl; Cuajimalpa de Morelos; parade in Mexico City outside Hotel Tarditi; fountains and parks, Mexico City; spring of Jesus, Tlalpan; Panteón Francés; San Pedro Atocpan; agave plants along road; cobblestone layers; streetcars, Ayuntamiento; courtyard of the Museo Nacional; Camales, Xochimilco; Gran Teatro Nacional; Departmento de Pesas y Medidas; ducks; Cuernavaca; Casa Borda, Cuernavaca; cityscape, Cuernavaca; home of José de la Borda; Hotel Morelos, Cuernavaca; Fuertes de Loreto; Pico de Orizaba; church, Orizaba; Parque Paseo Bravo, Puebla; Grijalva River; Frontera, Tamaulipas; industrial; home on lake, Tamaulipas; hikers; inspecting train tracks, Tamaulipas; Valle de Santiago, Tamaulipas; church, Tampico; embarcadero, Tampico; street scene, Tampico; Río Tamesí, Tampico; Paróquia de Tlaxcala, Puebla; dam, Orizaba; Paróquia, Orizaba; canyon, Xico Railway, Veracruz; Camino Mexico, Veracruz; deer, Orizaba; Edificio para Direccion de Faros, Veracruz; Cenote, Valladolid, Yucatán; old convent ruins, Valladolid; Iglesia de la Candelaria, Valladolid; Tahdzin, Yucatan; San Sebastian, Mérida; street scenes, Merida; masonic temple, Merida; Dzitás; Muna; Dzibilchaltun; Conkal; Iglesia de San Cristobal, Merida
PICT 996-002 (circa 1900): El Carnaval, Merida; canal; industry
PICT 996-013 (circa 1900s-1920s) Calle del Empedradillo; Aztec calendar; Panteón Guanajuato; Vista de Leon; Plaza Aguascalientes; entrada de la fabrica de Hercules; Nopales y Organos; Lavanderas Aguascalientes; Zapatero Aguascalientes; making and selling tortillas; Pyramid of the Sun
PICT 996-014 (circa 1890): Ojuela Mine and the smelting works of Mapimi, Durango, Mexico; Mapimi cityscape
PICT 996-024(circa 1890s): Stamped “Parker, El Paso, TX” and “M.J. Kohlberg, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico”. Guadelupe Church, Paso del Norte, Mexico; Mexican Jacal; Embarcacion de la Viga; Canoa con Verdura; butchered meat on burros
PICT 996-027 (circa 1900): Popocatépetl National Park; iztaccihuatl desde amecameca; Patio del Hotel de Iturbide (yturbide); Castillo de Chapultepec; Basílica de Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos, series of 7 photos of a Mexico City bullfight by C.B. Waite featuring torero Mazzantini
PICT 996-034 (1917, 1923): Pancho Villa with bandelier on horse; Pancho Villa's dead body hanging out of a car, Parral
PICT 997-004 (circa 1900): Guadalajara pottery; children; Post-mortem photo of infant; boy smoking cigar
PICT 998-005 (circa 1890s): Souvenir prints. Photographers: Waite and Scot. Guanajuato; Mexico City; President Diaz; monuments; Viga canal; Mexican lavanderia; agave harvest; mummies at Pantheon
PICT 2000-001 (1893, 1913): Mexican revolution, Cuernavaca; Huerta’s insurrection over Madero, Mexico City [pile of burning bodies]; dead men and horse in Zocalo; train derailment; Guaymas cityscape
Miscellaneous PICT 986-036, PICT 989-031, PICT 990-023, PICT 995-024, PICT 996-004, PICT 996-034, PICT 2005-024 (1890s-1928, 1995): Valentin G. Hariaz; pre-Columbian sculpture; men in cluttered room in Cananea; Chihuahua City; Eugenio Ruiz Orozco; contact sheet of Oaxaca street scenes and posters; bridge between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez; Ciudad Juarez homes and businesses; descendants of the family Tlaxcalteca; 3 booklets entitled “Remember the state of Oaxaca, second national congress of roads, 1928” each contains images of people and places of Oaxaca
Box 12 Additions: Added in 2017, this box contains recent additions to the collection. Folder 1 includes an album of 47 photographs from a January 1939 trip by American tourists. The automotive trip down the Pan-American Highway captures various tourist destinations including the Court of Quetzalcoatl, the colonial church at Acolman, Mexico City, Puebla, Acapulco, Taxco, Toluca and back to the states through Saltillo and Monterey. Also of interest are photographs of Max Meth, Mexico City Police detective and the photographer "Reilly." Folder 2 includes a group portrait of twenty members of the Communist Party of Mexico circa 1925, including David Alfaro Siquieros. Twelve individuals have signed the back of the photograph, including Manuel Diaz Lorenzo, Rafael Carrillo and Rosendo Gomez Lorenzo.
Dates
- 1853-1995
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 1719 items (12 boxes) : 1719 photographs
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451