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Mexico

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Keystone View Company Collection Tour of the World

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00008
Scope and Contents This collection contains a full set of stereoviews from the Keystone View Company's "Tour of the World" series.  The set includes stereoview images from six continents, excluding Antarctica. The scenes capture diverse people, monuments, and landscapes.  Each stereoview has a description of the scene located on the back.  The descriptions are often ethno-centric towards non-western cultures.  Points of interest include European-controlled Africa, the Middle East before the creation of Israel,...
Dates: circa 1892-1933, 1936

Mexican embroidered headband

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01830
Content Description

Green and white embroidered headband sourced from Tecolutla, Veracruz, Mexico. The headband is embroidered with birds. Creator of the headband is unidentified.

Dates: 2016

Mexican Satirical songsheets

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01790
Content Description

28 illustrated songsheets that use verse to satirize news stories from Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th century. The sheets credit Antonio Vanegas Arroyo as publisher, while the accompanying illustrations are attributed to José Guadalupe Posada.

Dates: 1899-1918

Photograph Albums Documenting the Life of a Young American Woman in Mexico

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS 00307
Scope and Contents 2 photograph albums containing 320 photographs in total. The larger album, labeled "Photographs," contains 241 captioned photographs; it documented the childhood of Annette Angela Kennalley, whose father was an American Oil worker in Tampico, Mexico and later Monterrey, Mexico until 1930. The smaller album, labeled "Recuerdo, Hotel 'Casa Domke,' Caracas," contains 74 photographs from Annette's teenage years; they include trips to Venezuela, Mexico, and Trinidad, as well as her time at St....
Dates: 1923-1940