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
Woodchopper, (painting)
- Notes
- University of Arizona Museum of Art: Paintings and Sculpture in the Permanent Collection with Selected Drawings and Watercolors," Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1983, pg. 67
- Summary
- Snowy winter farm scene with a male figure in the foreground splitting logs beside a tree stump. In the background horses stand under a leanto with snow piled high on its roof, and in the distance a barn and silo are visible
- Date
- 1936
- painter
- Benton, Thomas Hart 1889-1975
- Control number
- IAP 01350043
- 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
Courtin, (painting)
- Notes
- Price, B. Byron, ed., "Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonne," Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press in association with Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma, and C. M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana, 2007, pg. 76
- Summary
- Sketch depicting a cowboy seated sideways astride his horse, his attention directed toward a young woman standing opposite him, her arms resting along a wooden fence, with a small log cabin in the background
- Date
- 1889
- painter
- Russell, Charles M. 1864-1926
- Control number
- IAP 8B370013
- 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
Thoroughman's Home on the Range, (painting)
- Notes
- Price, B. Byron, ed., "Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonne," Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press in association with Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma, and C. M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, Montana, 2007, pg. 85
- Summary
- Sunny landscape depicting a cowboy on horseback gazing toward a woman hanging laundry on a clothesline in front of a log cabin. In the background another woman bends over a wash tub near the entrance of the cabin
- Date
- 1897
- painter
- Russell, Charles M. 1864-1926
- Control number
- IAP 8B370019
- 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 Girl (Sioux), (painting)
- Notes
- Troccoli, Joan Carpenter, "Alfred Jacob Miller: Watercolors of the American West from the Collection of the Gilcrease Museum," Tulsa, OK: Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association, 1990, no. 12
- Tyler, Ron, ed., "Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist of the Oregon Trail," Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1982, no. 468
- Summary
- Portrait of a young Native American girl seated on a rock in front of tepee, her body facing forward, her gaze directed toward the viewer, and her arms folded in her lap. She wears a long fringed leather dress with a red shawl draped around her shoulders
- painter
- Miller, Alfred Jacob 1810-1874
- Subject
- Unidentified
- Control number
- IAP 43590565
- 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
Western Cabin, (painting)
- Notes
- Troccoli, Joan Carpenter, "Alfred Jacob Miller: Watercolors of the American West from the Collection of the Gilcrease Museum," Tulsa, OK: Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association, 1990, no. 51
- Tyler, Ron, ed., "Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist of the Oregon Trail," Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1982, no. 57
- Summary
- View of a settler and a Native American on horseback standing beside a post and rail fence in front of a log cabin with smoke pouring from the chimney
- Date
- 1836 and 1837
- painter
- Miller, Alfred Jacob 1810-1874
- Control number
- IAP 43590604
- 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 Height of Her Ambition, (painting)
- Notes
- "American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two: Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, no. 421
- Summary
- Forest scene with a young boy and girl playing on a makeshift seesaw made with a board resting over a fallen log, the boy seated almost on the ground, and the girl on the end that's up in the air. On the ground beneath the girl is an overturned mug of berries, and on the ground beside the boy are school books, a slate, and a lunch pail
- Date
- 1878
- painter
- Ward, Charles Caleb ca. 1831-1896
- Control number
- IAP 20781940
- Data Source
- Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: National Anthropological ArchivesNo Image Available
Paintings made in Alaska and British Columbia 1890's
- Summary
- Includes: 1) Eskimo man with harpoon. Undated. 2) Man running at seal seals in rookery. July 7, 1892. 3) Natives fishing and drying fish. Undated. 4) Man clubbing seals. Undated. 5) Eskimo whaling and walrus camp, Icy Point, Arctic Ocean, Alaska. Lookout created of drift logs. 1891. 6) Interior or Stick Indians spearing fish in the canon of th Fraser River. 1891. 7) Fishing from kaiaks. 1872. 8) View of settlement and fishing trap. Undated. 9) Aleutians striking humpback whales: off Akootan Island, Bering Sea. Undated. 10) Aleutians sea-otter hunters in camp, Tigalda, Aleutian Chain. 1891. 11) Europeans clubbing and skinning seals. 1891. 12) Man with clubs on edge of rookery, St. Paul Island. 1891. 13) Fishing from kaiaks, Captains Harbour. 1872. 14) Seal rookery. 1872. 15) Dropping an Aleutian sea Otter hunting Party of A---tanak Island. 1892
- Publications
- See Elliott's Our Arctic Province, 1886, for additional illustrations and, possibly, further information about some paintings in this unit. Still other paintings were presumably transferred to the National Collection of Fine Arts and to the Department of Interior Museum
- Cite as
- Manuscript 7119, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Date
- 1890s
- Creator
- Elliott, Henry Wood 1846-1930
- Local number
- NAA MS 7119
- Data Source
- National Anthropological Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Archives of American GardensNo Image Available
Fancy Acres 1951-1986
- Notes
- This is an English garden created at an altitude of 5,500 feet that began in the 1950s as rock-strewn slopes. The garden is situated between three rustic log cabins and open to the public during the summer season. The garden is also available for art classes, tours and occasional weddings
- Persons associated with the property include: George J. Snook (former owner, 1951); Fancy Snook (former owner and garden designer, 1951); Dorothy Snook Perry (former owner and garden designer, 1954-1982); and Clark Perry (former owner, 1954-1982)
- Summary
- The folder includes correspondence, articles, a garden plan and photocopies of articles about the garden
- Publications
- Garden has been featured in Barbara Neiwert, "Sun Valley's Hidden Oasis,"Northwest Living, May-June 1988, pp. 8-14
- Garden has been featured in Sun Valley Magazine, Summer 1985
- Garden has been featured in "A Family Compound's Remarkable Effect on Sun Valley," House and Garden, February 1981
- Garden has been featured in the Mountain Express, August 5, 1982, August 1983 and June 20, 1985
- Garden has been featured in the Twin Falls Times-News, August 4, 1983
- Date
- 1951
- 1951-1986
- former owner
- Snook, George J.
- garden designer
- Snook, Fancy
- former owner
- Perry, Clark
- garden designer
- Perry, Dorothy Snook
- Local number
- ID002000
- Data Source
- Archives of American Gardens
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Archives of American GardensNo Image Available
Quarryhill Botanical Garden 1988 to 1995
- Notes
- "It is located on 20 rocky acres in Sonoma, California and dedicated to the conservation and study of Asian plants. The plants are almost all grown from seed and are collected in Asia in association with the Royal Botanical Garden, Kew and Lork Howick of the Howick Arboretum in Northumberland."
- "Because of uncontrolled development (i.e. logging and grazing in China) many plant species are disappearing forever. After only seven years, Quarryhill has the largest collection of Asian plants, all scientifically documented, in North America."
- Persons associated with the property include: Jane Davenport Jansen (chairman/former owner); Eleanor Davenport (director); William McNamara (director/photographer); Sally MacBride (director/ GCA representative); Donna Bowman (director/ GCA representative); Floyd Moses (accountant); Maynard Garrison (lawyer); David Shepard (lanscape designer)
- Summary
- Materials relating to the public gardens located in Glen Ellen, California. The folder includes a slide list, a plant list, and a description and worksheet completed by GCA researcher Jo Anne Miller
- Date
- 1988
- 1988-1995
- 1988 to 1995
- chairman/former owner
- Jansen, Jane Davenport
- director
- Davenport, Eleanor
- director/ photographer
- McNamara, William
- director/ GCA representative
- Mac Bride, Sally
- Bowman, Donna
- accountant
- Moses, Floyd
- lawyer
- Garrison, Maynard
- landscape designer
- Sheppard, David
- Local number
- CA344000
- Data Source
- Archives of American Gardens
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Archives of American GardensNo Image Available
Hickory Nut Gap Farm 1998
- Notes
- Persons associated with the property include: Mr. and Mrs. James Gore King McClure, Jr. (former owners, 1916-1956); Judge Phillips (former owner, 1912-1916); Captain Spaugh, USN Ret. (former owner, 1908-1912); Bedford Sherrill (reclaimed property in 1874)
- Property was designated a Historic Preservation Property by the North Carolina Cultural Resources Commission in 1975
- Property known as Sherrill's Inn, 1834-1909
- Mrs. James G. K. McClure, Jr. began developing the gardens in 1917 and added more gardens until 1942. She was an artist who had studied in France and England. Some of her paintings are featured in the house
- Summary
- Folder includes Archives of American Gardens Information Sheet, site plan, and photocopied articles. Garden is noted for several features including boxwood hedges, stone walls, circular paved stone terrace, rock garden, tennis court, vegatable garden, arbor, and apple orchard. Site includes large spring house with water flowing through and a log fort built in 1897. Property features a view of the mountains in western North Carolina
- Publications
- Garden mentioned in "Cabins and Castles History and Architecture of Buncomb County, NC" by Douglas Swain. Published in 1991 by NC Department of Cultural Resources
- Garden featured in Carolina Gardens Magazine, "In Search of Lost Carolina Gardens" by Peter Lwewer, n.d
- Date
- 1998
- 1998-1998
- former owners
- McClure, James Gore King, Jr. Mr. and Mrs 1916-1956
- former owner
- Phillips Judge 1912-1916
- Spaugh Captain, USN Ret 1908-1912
- reclaimed property
- Sherrill, Bedford 1874
- Local number
- NC039000
- Data Source
- Archives of American Gardens
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