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Mexican Broadsides Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PICT-000-425

Scope and Content

This collection consists of two series, containing approximately 135 half-sheet broadsides from Mexico. All the associated text is written in Spanish.

In Series I, each broadside contains an illustration from either a zinc etching, a type-metal engraving, a woodcut, or a photograph. Dates for this series range between 1895 and 1925. Some of the broadsides are entirely in verse, some report events such as comets, crime, natural disasters. The most represented printer is Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. Many of the illustrations were cut by José Guadalupe Posada.

The broadsides in Series II date between 1857 and 1872. Each is a poem on a religious theme and all but two include an engraving and decorated borders. One of the broadsides is printed in silver gilt on blue tissue, with the original manuscript attached. Most were published in Tenango del Valle, with four being published in Toluca, one in Tepexoxuca, and one without place of publication. Most were printed by M. Murguía or the Sociedad A. Regeneradora.

The collection was transferred from Manuscript Collections to Pictorial Collections in January 2000.

Dates

  • 1857-1925

Language of Materials

Spanish

Access Restrictions

The collection is shelved in High Security.

Some broadsides from this collection are on exhibit in the Herzstien Gallery till November 2014.

Copy Restrictions

Duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.

Extent

135 items (1 box) : 135 broadsides ; half-sheet

Physical Location

B2. Shelved in High Security by Pictorial Number.

Posada Prints Online

Some prints by José Guadalupe Posada from this collection are available, along with other Posada prints, in the José Guadalupe Posada Collection of Mexican Popular Prints, part of the Center for Southwest Research's digital Pictorial Collections.

Related Material

Spanish Graphical Ephemera Collection, University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for Southwest Research. Mexican Bookplate Collection, University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for Southwest Research. Manila and Posada Prints Collection, University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for Southwest Research. El Periquillo Collection, University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for Southwest Research.

General

Contact Information

  1. Center for Southwest Research
  2. Zimmerman Library
  3. University of New Mexico
  4. Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-1466
  5. Phone: 505-277-6451
  6. Fax: 505-277-0530
  7. Email: cswrref@unm.edu
  8. URL: http://eLibrary.unm.edu/cswr
Title
Finding Aid of the Mexican Broadsides Collection, 1857-1925
Status
Edited Full Draft
Author
Processed by CSWR staff
Date
©2000
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is in English

Revision Statements

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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