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.
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- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Ladakh, India, 1978 86.13.3-48OP 7/26/1978 (5:30p.m.)
- Notes
- title derived from name of project (unpublished work)--archival collection
- field notes and logs
- Summary
- Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-12 Landscape, clouds and mountain peaks with light hitting the peaks; 13-21 Landscape, valley and mountain range; 24-28 landscape, village on mountainside; 29-32 landscape, cloudy hillside with monastery in foreground; 34 landscape, valley with forest and buildings; 35-36 boy monk leaning over ledge of rooftop past wall, looking at camera
- Date
- 1978
- 7/26/1978 530pm
- Creator
- Sorenson, E. Richard
- Local number
- HSFA 86.13.3-48OP
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Film Studies of Traditional Indian Life in Brazil: Canela 1979
- Notes
- Title derived from name of project (unpublished work) -- archival collection
- Supplementary materials: photographs, journals, camera logs
- Summary
- Full film record was shot by Steven Schecter, employee of the National Human Studies Film Center, Smithsonian Institution, in collaboration with anthropologist William Crocker, of the Canela Indians, a Ge speaking tribe in northeastern Brazil. Research film project, directed by anthropologist E. Richard Sorenson, concentrates on interactions of children and infants with parents and siblings and children with other children in various settings. Footage also contains daily life activities including food preparation and distribution, doing bead work, hunting, preparing manioc, grooming, making and cooking meat pies, and collecting honey and a funeral
- Date
- 1979
- Creator
- Schecter, Steven ethnocinematographer
- Crocker, William Henry 1924- anthropologist
- Sorenson, E. Richard
- Local number
- HSFA 86.13.32
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Ladakh, India, 1978 86.13.3-11OP 7/20/1978 (2:25pm)
- Notes
- title derived from name of project (unpublished work)--archival collection
- field notes and logs
- Summary
- Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-2 walled courtyard with buildings, bundled plants, ladders, and wood; 3-4 4 children infront of raised porch; 6-16 old monk standing in doorway talking to the camera and smiling; 18 Art, painting or tapestry with circular design with hog, bird and snake in celter and three eyeed face above circle; 19-31 boy monk standing between column and painted wall, talking and gesturing towards the painting of landscape, people, and boots; 32 old fresco painting of buddhist diety, faded and chipped with green circle behind the head; 33-35 old fresco painting on wall of a city
- Date
- 1978
- 7/20/1978 225pm
- Creator
- Sorenson, E. Richard
- Local number
- HSFA 86.13.3-11OP
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Ladakh, India, 1978 86.13.3-35OP 7/26/1978 (2:35pm)
- Notes
- title derived from name of project (unpublished work)--archival collection
- field notes and logs
- Summary
- Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1 two boy monks leaning against a wall on the monastery rooftops; 2-5 4 boy monks sitting against wall of the monastery rooftops, one boy in center with a book; 6-9 two boy monks, one facing camera, other facing away on rooftop; 10-11 Landscape, valley and mountains; 12-15 two monks on patio of
(main prayer room of monastery), one sitting on the ledge, one leanign against a column; 16-18 courtyard with boy monks looking up at the camera; 19-21 Landscape, valley and mountains shot from rooftop; 22 buildings with valley in background; 24-32 Landscape, valley and mounains from rooftop
- Date
- 1978
- 7/26/1978 235pm
- Creator
- Sorenson, E. Richard
- Local number
- HSFA 86.13.3-35OP
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Ladakh, India, 1978 86.13.3-46OP 7/26/1978 (4:50p.m.)
- Notes
- title derived from name of project (unpublished work)--archival collection
- field notes and logs
- Summary
- Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-2 monk in
(gold robe) in center aisle row near door playing conch shell horn; 3-12 monk playing conch shell; 13-17 two monks on center aisle row of monks, playing (horns); 18-24 same as 3-12; 25-27 drum out of focus in foreground, Luding Khen Rinpoche in upper throne with whites carves behind him; 28-29 monk with kanglings beside him being served tea from a metal pot; 30-31 little boy with hands together praying; sitting against a wall with a window above him; 32-36 boy monks by a wall with windows sitting and being served tea
- Date
- 1978
- 7/26/1978 450pm
- Creator
- Sorenson, E. Richard
- Local number
- HSFA 86.13.3-46OP
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Ladakh, India, 1978 86.13.3-51OP 7/26/1978 (5:45p.m.)
- Notes
- title derived from name of project (unpublished work)--archival collection
- field notes and logs
- Summary
- Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1 row of boy monks sitting against a wall with monks handing them an object; 4-11 monks in
(main prayer room of monastery) exiting towards the door; 12-15 in courtyard monks lining up in one long line; 16-19 boy monks in line in courtyard; 20-27 line of boy monks moving forward; 28-34 snaking line through courtyard to door
- Date
- 1978
- 7/26/1978 545pm
- Creator
- Sorenson, E. Richard
- Local number
- HSFA 86.13.3-51OP
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Ladakh, India, 1978 86.13.3-52OP 7/26/1978 (6:53p.m.)
- Notes
- title derived from name of project (unpublished work)--archival collection
- field notes and logs
- Summary
- Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-2 line of monks walking down path nect to monastery down the mountainside; 3 stones out of focus; 4-11 same as 1-2; 12-13 close up of two monks in line moving down mountainside; 14-25 same as 1-2 and 4-11; 26-28 boy monks smiling infront of stone wall; 29-32 boy monk looking at camera, wearing orange, standing infront of wall; 34 boy monks clustered together in a pathway next to a stone wall, talking; 35 cluster of monks talking near a stone wall; 36-38 cluster of monks and boy monks outside building next to stuccoed wall
- Date
- 1978
- 7/26/1978 653pm
- Creator
- Sorenson, E. Richard
- Local number
- HSFA 86.13.3-52OP
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Ladakh, India, 1978 86.13.3-54OP 7/26/1978 (7:10p.m.)
- Notes
- title derived from name of project (unpublished work)--archival collection
- field notes and logs
- Summary
- Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-4 five boy monks sitting on rooftop on monastery with a monk walking towards the boy in the corner, boys leaning against wall; 5-12 6 boy monks sititng on rooftop, five leaning against a wall and one in the center of the rooftop; 13-25 five boy monks, three leaning against rooftop wall, one leaning against planter and other sitting in middle, monk walking to center; 26-31 two boy monks, high angle shot, one sitting alone, other leaning against wall; 33-34 two boy monks on rooftop leaning against wall; 35 same as 26-31
- Date
- 1978
- 7/26/1978 710pm
- Creator
- Sorenson, E. Richard
- Local number
- HSFA 86.13.3-54OP
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Ladakh, India, 1978 86.13.3-56OP 7/26/1978
- Notes
- title derived from name of project (unpublished work)--archival collection
- field notes and logs
- Summary
- Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-2 boy monk with his hand in his mouth; 3 Landscape, mountains; 4-5 Landscape, green fields in the valley; 6-7 Landscape, Mountains and valley with green fields; 8 Landscape, village on hill in valley with mountaines behind it; 11-19 Landscape, sunlit valley with mountaines and blue cloudy sky; 20 Landscape, cloudy mountains with sun on mountain, green fields in valley; 21-22 Landscape, valley and mountains; 23-28 Landscape, rooftops with prayer flags hanging from it; 29-36 Landscape, cloudy mountains with valley
- Date
- 1978
- 7/26/1978
- Creator
- Sorenson, E. Richard
- Local number
- HSFA 86.13.3-56OP
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Film Studies of Traditional Tibetan Life and Culture: Ladakh, India, 1978 86.13.3-68OP 7/28/1978 (1:37pm)
- Notes
- title derived from name of project (unpublished work)--archival collection
- field notes and logs
- Summary
- Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-7 boy monk bending over two monks table, serving food out of pot to the first monk; 9-17 boy monk serving second monk out of pot in shadow; 19-20 boy picking up pot and moving away fromthe monks; 21-22 boy ladling soup out of pot; 23-32 boy monk serving old monk soup out of pot on the floor; 34-35 boy standing infront of the two older monks; 36-37 same as 23-32; 38 same as 34-35
- Date
- 1978
- 7/28/1978 137pm
- Creator
- Sorenson, E. Richard
- Local number
- HSFA 86.13.3-68OP
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives