Mexico: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints, DeGolyer Library
About the Collection
Overview
Mexico: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints provides a sample of the photographs, images, albums, books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and more, relating to Mexico held by SMU's DeGolyer Library.
DeGolyer Library digital collections are part of CUL Digital Collections, which contain thousands of digitized photographs, manuscripts, imprints, and works of art held by SMU's Central University Libraries special collections.
Collection Materials
This digital collection contains many items related to the Mexican Revolution. For example, you will find 20 photographs of Cananea, Mexico, located just across the Arizona border showing striking miners, men with guns, demonstrations, the mine site, and American personnel. Included are views of Colonel William C. Greene of Greene Consolidated Copper Company addressing strikers, June 3, 1906. The conflict is considered the beginnings of the Mexican Revolution.
The collection also contains 43 photographic prints of the Mexican Revolution from an album by Manuel Ramos (1874-1945) illustrating damage in Mexico City during the February, 1913 uprising, also called La decena tragica ("the Ten Tragic Days") against President Francisco I. Madero (1873-1913). Included are views of the Arsenal, the destruction of President Madero's house, ruins of buildings, and Madero's funeral. Other views include Felix Diaz (1868 - 1945) and colleagues, General Victoriano Huerta (1854-1916) and cabinet, dead bodies, and fighting in Mexico City.
The set of 16 mounted photographs from the Mexican troops, Cinco de Mayo, 1902, collection shows Porfirio Diaz (1830-1915), president of Mexico, reviewing troops. The series is believed to been taken on Cinco de Mayo, 1902, the 40th anniversary of the battle of Puebla after which the Cinco de Mayo celebration was named. The photographs were probably taken in front of Lecumberri prison in Mexico City.
The Destruction of New Laredo Mexico April 24, 1914 album contains 8 photographs of municipal buildings in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, that were destroyed in 1914 during the Mexican Revolution as Federal forces abandoned the city.
There are dozens of postcards and photographs from the American border troops and the Mexican Revolution and the Collection of Walter H. Horne photographs, depicting stark scenes that took place, as well as Pancho Villa, Antonio Franco, Conrado H. Antuna, and more.
Holdings and Highlights
There are many photographs, manuscripts, imprints, and paintings of historic Mexico, including:
- Albert L. Beach photographs of Texas and Mexico
- Album Artistico, consisting of handwritten biographies of 18th and 19th century artists in Puebla, Mexico
- Album Mexicano, with lithographs by Casimiro Castro, A. Gallice, M. Mohar
- Album, Mexican Revolution by Manuel Ramos
- Album, Mexico, 1905-1909
- Album pintoresco de la Republica Mexicana, 1850
- Album, Views of Mexico by Hickman & Todd
- Agustin de Iturbide papers, 1822-1824
- American border troops and the Mexican Revolution
- Biblioteca del niño mexicano series of childrens' books illustrated by Jose Guadalupe Posada
- Biografia del General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
- Brehme photographs of Mexico
- Cananea, Mexico
- Collection of early postcards of Mexico
- Collection of Walter H. Horne Photographs
- documents and records, including from Philip V, King of Spain and Maximilian I
- Destruction of New Laredo Mexico April 24, 1914
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Inaugural celebration of the Mexico, Cuernavaca & Pacific Railway - Lantern slides of Mexico, California and Colorado by William Henry Jackson
- Manning Texas and Mexico collection
- Mexican broadsides illustrated by Jose Guadalupe Posada
- Mexican Mining & Smelting Company
- Mexican portraits on Ivory
- Mexican troops, Cinco de Mayo, 1902
- Mexico by Charles Burlingame Waite
- Minas del Compromiso de Vetagrande records, 1788-1809
- Mining in Mexico
- Monterrey, Mexico
- Photographs of Mexico by Lorzeno Becerril
- Scenes in Mexico by Abel Briquet
- Stereos of Mexico
- Texas and Mexican views by Thomas J. Cockrell
- Texas oath of allegiance to Empire of Mexico, 1822
- Thomas Hudson Thatcher collection of Mexico and Texas photographs by Winfield Scott
- Tourists in Mexico and Old Mexico, 1897 by Mayo & Weed;
- Views in Mexico by Abel Briquet
- Views of Mexico by William Henry Jackson
Related Collections
Mexico: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints is one of a family of digital collections from the DeGolyer Library that focuses on Texas, the U.S. West, Mexico, and Latin America.
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Digital Collections Guidelines and Procedures
Items in Central University Library Digital Collections are digitized following the SMU Central University Libraries Digitization Guidelines and Procedures. Digital collections are created under the guidelines of the SMU CONTENTdm Guide: Framework for Building a Collection, or through specialized metadata profiles tailored for the collection.
Usage
Copyright usage terms vary throughout the collection. Each item contains information about usage terms. If SMU does not have the right to publish the item on the Internet, only the item's metadata will be available and the digitized object will be available on a restricted access basis. Such items may only be viewed on campus. When items are available for use, please cite DeGolyer Library, Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.
Contact Info
For more information about the collection, please contact degolyer@smu.edu.
