Mexican-American border region

Content Description Four photographs of U.S./Mexico boundary monuments on the international border in New Mexico, made by photographer David Taylor in 2008 and 2012. The photographs depict boundary monuments #s 2, 14, 23 and 30. The photographs are contained in a custom portfolio made by Taylor and Mark Andersson of Panther Peak Bindery, Tucson, Arizona. The photographs are from Taylor's project Monuments: 276 Views of the United States - Mexico Border. They appear in his book of the same name, published by Radius...

Abstract Papers of John P. Bloom related to his work on three symposia sponsored by the Dona Ana County Historical Society. The first symposium was titled New Mexico's Year of Destiny, 1846, and was held in 1996 as a 150th anniversary. The largest and most successful of the symposia was the symposium on the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, held in 1998, and the subsequent publication of a book based on the symposium presentations. The third and last symposium was on the history of...

Abstract From the photographer's description of the project:Tracing the Line: A Photographic Survey of the Mexican-American BorderThis is the first photographic survey of the International Boundary and its landscape from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. The region along the boundary supports deserts, rugged mountains, valleys and two major rivers - the Rio Grande and the Colorado. There are 276 monuments along the land boundary that measures 698 miles from El Paso to the...