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: Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art MuseumNo Image Available
Beech Woods and Stream, (painting)
- Notes
- Traut, Richard L., 1989
- Summary
- Lush green landscape of a forest of beech trees with a stream running through the middle. The stream flows from the background into the middle foreground where the water rushes over and between rocks. The grassy banks of the stream are lined with beech trees. The ground on the right bank of the stream has eroded slightly revealing the roots of a nearby tree. In the distance the trees appear hazy in the sunlight. There is a fallen log across the stream in the far distance
- Date
- Ca. 1893-1919?
- painter
- Snyder, William McKendree 1849-1930
- Control number
- IAP 9B590117
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art MuseumNo Image Available
View from the Packet Wharf at Frenchtown Looking Down Elk Creek, (painting)
- Notes
- Avery, Kevin J., "American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born before 1835," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002, pg. 100, 324
- Summary
- A view looking out at the wharf where three fishermen hang their nets out to dry beside a small log cabin. In the distance there is a sailboat traveling down the Chesapeake Bay
- Date
- 1806
- painter
- Latrobe, Benjamin Henry 1764-1820
- Control number
- IAP 36121454
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art MuseumNo Image Available
The Home Makers, (painting)
- Notes
- Missouri Capitol Commission Board, "The Missouri State Capitol," 1983 rev. ed
- Summary
- The pendentives of the Great Dome are adorned with four murals depicting Missouri in Four Great Historical Periods. The Home Makers in the southwest pendentive depicts the first Missouri home with oxen plowing the field, lumbermen cutting trees to build a log house, and carpenters building the house. In the foreground a young boys play with a goat and in the background a young boy climbs a fruit tree, while a hunter stands nearby. Standing in the middle is the mother holding her child
- Date
- Ca. 1917-1928
- painter
- Brangwyn, Frank 1867-1943
- Control number
- IAP 27620003
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art MuseumNo Image Available
La Barriere du Sous-Bois (The Swinging Gate), (painting)
- Notes
- Musee du Quebec, 1993
- Summary
- Country landscape depicting children playing on a swinging gate made of slender logs, with one boy pushing the gate open, one boy seated on the top rung of the gate, and a boy and a girl standing on the rungs below. To the left a young girl has fallen on the ground. Beyond the gate, a road leads back through a woods with another gate in the distance
- Date
- 1858
- painter
- Bingham, William
- Control number
- IAP 67800005
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art MuseumNo Image Available
South Carolina Cabin Scene, (painting)
- Notes
- "A Treasury of American Art: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Arts and Sciences," Daytona Beach, FL: The Museum of Arts and Sciences, 2003, pg. 193
- Summary
- Rural landscape depicting a black farmer's family gathered in front of a log cabin with smoke pouring from the chimney and a kettle on a fire in the yard. To the right chickens feed near a chicken coop, and in the background laundry hangs out to dry on long clotheslines
- Date
- 1885
- painter
- Walker, William Aiken 1838-1921
- Control number
- IAP 09130042
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art MuseumNo Image Available
South Carolina Cabin Scene, (painting)
- Notes
- "A Treasury of American Art: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Arts and Sciences," Daytona Beach, FL: The Museum of Arts and Sciences, 2003, pg. 193
- Summary
- Rural landscape depicting a black farmer's family going about their chores in front of a log cabin with smoke pouring from the chimney, which leans a bit and is held up with slender tree trunk. Out in the yard there is a kettle on a fire and chickens peck at the ground. The women are busy with the laundry, which hangs on a wooden structure to the right
- Date
- 1885
- painter
- Walker, William Aiken 1838-1921
- Control number
- IAP 09130043
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art MuseumNo Image Available
Rosin Gang, (painting)
- Notes
- Morris Museum of Art, 2005
- Pennington, Estill Curtis, "A southern collection: select works from a permanent collection of painting in the South prepared for the opening of the Morris Museum of Art, September 24, 1992," Augusta, GA: Morris Communications Corp., 1992
- Chambers, Bruce W., "Art and artists of the South: The Robert P. Coggins Collection," Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1984, no. 91
- Summary
- Figures wearing blue pants and white shirts are in an interior, seated on large logs
- Date
- 1912
- painter
- Murphy, Christopher Patrick Hussey 1869-1939
- Control number
- IAP 67990156
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art MuseumNo Image Available
The Woodchopper, (painting)
- Notes
- Acton, David, "Master Drawings from the Worcester Art Museum," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Worcester Museum of Art, 1998, no. 69
- Summary
- Landscape in muted shades of orange and brown depicting a male figure standing with his body facing forward and his raised hands holding an axe above his head. Scattered around his feet are cut logs and in the background a cut tree trunk stands at the edge of a clearing
- Date
- 1877
- painter
- Hunt, William Morris 1824-1879
- Control number
- IAP 23570625
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art MuseumNo Image Available
Goldminers, (painting)
- Notes
- Cunningham, Elizabeth, The Anschutz Collection, 1987
- Cunningham, Elizabeth, "Masterpieces of the American West: Selections from the Anschutz Collection," Denver, CO: A. B. Hirschfeld Press, 1983, no. 9
- Summary
- View looking into a campsite with a small group of miners seated around an elderly man distributing cash in exchange for a pan of gold resting at his feet. In the background on the left there is a flume set up above a small stream, and on the right a miner tends to a campfire near a log and canvas shelter
- Date
- 1858
- painter
- Browere, Alburtus D. O. 1814-1887
- Control number
- IAP 68040003
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art MuseumNo Image Available
Indian Camp in the Forest, (painting)
- Notes
- "West West West: Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection," Denver, CO: The Anschutz Collection in association with University of Nebraska Press, 1991, pg. 45
- Summary
- Autumn landscape depicting a Native American family seated in a three-sided log shelter built of a trees cleared from the woods along a stream. Beside the shelter is a canoe and the carcass of a deer, along with numerous tree stumps and fallen tree trunks
- Date
- 1853
- painter
- Muller, Heinrich 1823-1853
- Control number
- IAP 68040096
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums