Mexican America - Resources and Credits
This section contains educational materials to supplement your journey through Mexican America as illustrated by the collections of the National Museum of American History.
The glossary explains some of the terms used to talk about the history and peoples of Mexico and the American West and Southwest.
The national borders of Mexico have changed radically between the start of the Aztec Empire in the 14th century and the present. See Mexican maps from the collections of the University of Texas Libraries.
Scenes and figures from postcards commemorating the American West and Southwest from the Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
- Colonia outside of El Paso (circa 1920)
- David Crockett
- Greetings from San Antonio, Texas (The Alamo)
- Mexican Home, New Mexico (circa 1925)
- Old Spanish Days (circa 1925)
Historical scenes and figures from Mexico from the Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
- Avenida A Tijuana (circa 1910)
- Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (circa 1925)
- Calle del Comercio Ciudad Juárez (circa 1925)
- Mexican Market Scene (undated photograph)
- Quetzalcoatl
- Taxco, Guerrero (circa 1910)
- Temple of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan (circa 1910)
Other Smithsonian Institution projects about the peoples of Mexico and their descendants, culture, and environment.
For additional information on the history of Mexico, Mexican Americans, and the diverse peoples of the American West and Southwest, please see the bibliography.
Esta sección contiene materiales educativos a fin de complementar el recorrido a través de la América Mexicana ilustrado por objetos provenientes de las colecciones del Museo Nacional de Historia Americana.
Pulsando sobre el enlace que se observa a continuación se puede acceder a un glosario donde se explican algunos de los términos usados para referirse a la historia y a los pueblos de México, tanto como del oeste y sudoeste de América.
Los límites nacionales de México han cambiado radicalmente entre los comienzos del Imperio Azteca en el siglo XIV y el presente. Pulse el siguiente enlace para ver mapas de México de las colecciones de las Bibliotecas de la Universidad .de Texas.
Pulsar los siguientes enlaces para ver tarjetas con escenas y figuras, y fotos conmemorativas del oeste y sudoeste americano de la Colección de Postales Victor A. Blenkle, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
- Colonia en las afueras de El Paso (ca. 1920)
- David Crockett
- Saludos desde San Antonio, Texas
- Hogar Mexicano, Nuevo México (ca. 1925)
- Viejos Tiempos Españoles (ca. 1925)
Pulsar los siguientes enlaces para ver escenas y figuras históricas de México.
- Avenida A Tijuana (ca. 1910)
- Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (ca. 1925)
- Calle del Comercio Ciudad Juárez (ca. 1925)
- Escena de un Mercado Mexicano (foto sin fecha)
- Quetzalcoatl
- Taxco, Guerrero (circa 1910)
- Templo de Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan (ca. 1910)
Pulsar los siguientes enlaces para ver otros proyectos de la Institución Smithsonian acerca de los pueblos de México y sus descendientes, su cultura y su entorno.
Para mayor información sobre la historia de México, los mexicoamericanos y los diversos pueblos del oeste y sudoeste americano, por favor pulsar sobre el enlace de bibliografía a continuación.
The Mexican America object group is a collective effort of the staff of the National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center: Division of Home and Community Life; Division of Information Technology and Communications; Division of Music, Sports and Entertainment; Division of Politics and Reform; New Media Program; Program in Latino History and Culture; Office and Museum Management and Services; and Registration Services.
Special thanks to Diana Taggart and Michelle Sánchez.
El grupo de objetos América Mexicana es un esfuerzo conjunto del personal del Museo Nacional de Historia Americana, del Centro Kenneth E. Behring: División de Vida en el Hogar y la Comunidad; División de Tecnología Informativa y Comunicaciones; División de Música, Deportes y Entretenimiento; División de Política y Reforma; Programa de Nuevos Medios de Comunicación; Programa de Historia y Cultura Latinas; La Oficina de Gestión y Servicios de Museo; y la Oficina de Servicios de Adquisiciones.
Un agradecimiento especial a Diana Taggart y Michelle Sánchez.
"Mexican America - Resources and Credits" showing 8 items.
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Lianas and logging in West Africa / Marc P.E. Parren
- Date
- 2003
- Author
- Parren, Marc P. E
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Smithsonian Institution LibrariesNo Image Available
Broadaxe to flying shear : the mechanization of forest harvesting east of the Rockies / C. Ross Silversides ; accompanying essay by Richard A. Rajala
- Date
- 1997
- Author
- Silversides, C. R
- Rajala, Richard 1953-
- National Museum of Science and Technology (Canada)
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Smithsonian Institution LibrariesNo Image Available
Schlumberger : the history of a technique / Louis A. Allaud, Maurice H. Martin
- Notes
- "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
- Date
- 1977
- C1977
- Author
- Allaud, Louis
- Martin, Maurice
- Subject
- Schlumberger Limited
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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Livret de bord = log book : SIAO : créativité, exportation : le plus grand marché international de l'artisanat africain = creativity, exportation : the biggest international market of African arts and crafts
- Notes
- Cover title
- Date
- 1997
- [1997?]
- Author
- International Arts and Crafts Trade Show of Ouagadougou
- Subject
- International Arts and Crafts Trade Show of Ouagadougou
- Call number
- NK1085.75 .I5 1997
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and CollectionsNo Image Available
Classic Canadian Songs from Smithsonian Folkways [sound recording]
- Notes
- Commercial
- Traditional music from Canada. Previously released recordings (1953-1994). Compact disc. Program and biographical notes, with bibliographical references (28 p. : ill., ports.) inserted in container. Sung in English, French, Scottish Gaelic, Cree, and Nootka
- Date
- 2006
- liner notes
- Dalen, Brenda
- performer
- Stoddard, Sandy
- Carignan, Jean
- Hemsworth, Wade 1916-2002
- Peaychew, William 1900-1960
- Morin, Aldor
- Mills, Alan 1912-1977
- Fleming, Gordon
- Halderman, Anne 1910-2004
- Lacombe, Gilbert
- Triggs, Stanley G
- James, Karen
- Jeannotte, Joseph Gaspard 1889-1985
- Kines, Tom 1922-1994
- Rubin, Ruth 1906-2000
- Owens, Charles
- recorder
- Creighton, Helen
- performer
- Arbuckle, Bob
- Mikkelson, Verner
- Clifton, N. Roy 1909-
- Burn Stick, William
- Sullivan, Geraldine
- recorder
- Fowke, Edith Fulton 1913-
- performer
- Cremo, Lee 1938-1999
- Morin, Edgar
- Abbott, O. J
- Clutesi, George 1905-1988
- Loewen Orchestra
- North Shore Singers
- Local number
- FP-CFP-CD-40539-7
- FLP 132992
- Smithsonian Folkways 40539
- Data Source
- Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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Maritime Conference held at Brussels for devising an uniform system of meteorological observations at sea, August and September 1853 = Conférence maritime tenue a Bruxelles pour l'adoption d'un système uniforme d'observations météorologiques a la mer, aout et septembre 1853
- Notes
- English and French on opposite pages
- Plates are abstract logs with explanatory notes
- Date
- 1853
- 1853]
- Author
- Maritime Conference (1853 : Brussels, Belgium)
- donor
- Burndy Library DSI
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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A world on the wane / C. Lévi-Strauss ; translated by John Russell
- Notes
- "Originally published in France under the title Tristes tropiques by Librarie Plon, Paris, 1955: chapters xiv, xv, xvi, and xxxix of the French edition are omitted in this translation"--T.p. verso
- "This text is identical with that first published in America in 1961 by Criterion Books, Inc., New York, under the title Tristes tropiques, and all the black-and-white illustrations have been retained"--T.p. verso
- Contents
- pt. 1. Destinations -- pt. 2. From a log-book -- pt. 3. The New World -- pt. 4. A land and its people -- pt. 5. The Caduveo -- pt. 6. The Bororo -- pt. 7. The Nambikwara -- pt. 8. The Tupi-Kawahib -- pt. 9. The return
- Date
- 1961
- [1961?]
- Author
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Subject
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude Travel
- Call number
- F2520 .L4813 1961b
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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Journey to Mauritius / Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre ; translated with an introduction and notes by Jason Wilson
- Notes
- "Originally published in French, 1773."
- Contents
- Introduction -- Author's preface to the first edition, 1773 -- Prospectus for a new edition of the journey to Mauritius -- Preamble to the journey to Mauritius -- Letter 1: Lorient, 4 January 1768 -- Letter 2: Lorient, 28 January 1768 -- Letter 3: Lorient, 20 february 1768 -- Letter 4: On board the Marquis de Castries, 3 March -- Log: March 1768 -- Observations on the customs of sea-faring people -- Observations on the sea and fish -- Observations on the sky, winds and birds -- Observations of possible use for the better management of sailors -- Observations on scurvy -- Letter 5: My arrival at Mauritius -- Letter 6: Port Louis, 6 August 1768 -- Letter 7: Port Louis, 15 September 1768 -- Letter 8: Port Louis, 8 October 1768 -- Letter 9: Port Louis, 7 December 1768 -- About animals native to Mauritius -- Letter 10: On what comes from the sea: fish, shells, and coral -- Meteorological journal -- Letter 11: Port Louis, 10 February 1769 -- Letter 12: Port Louis, 25 april 1769 -- On Blacks -- Letter 13: Port Louis, 29 May 1769 -- Agriculture, herbs, vegetables, and flowers brought to the island -- Letter 14: Port Louis, 10 July 1769 -- Shrubs and trees brought to the island -- Letter 15: Port Louis, 15 July 1769 -- Animals brought to mauritius -- Letter 16: Port Louis, 15 August 1769 -- A tour around the island -- Letter 17: Journey on foot around the island -- Letter 18: On commerce, agriculture, and the island's defence -- Preamble to the end of the first volume: on whites and Blacks -- Letter 19: Departure for France, arrival at Réunion, hurricane -- Letter 20 -- Letter 21 -- Letter 22: Quality of the air and soil in the Cape of Good Hope; plants, insects, and animals -- Letter 23: Slaves, Hottentots, the Dutch -- Letter 24: continuation of my Cape journal -- Letter 25: Departure from the Cape, description of Ascension Island -- Letter 26: Conjectures on the antiquity of the soil on Ascension Island, on Mauritius, on the Cape of Good Hope and in Europe -- Letter 27: Observations on Ascension Island, departure, arrival in France -- Letter 28: On voyagers and voyages
- Date
- 2003
- Author
- Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de 1737-1814
- Wilson, Jason 1944-
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries