Mexico in History

Drawn from The Bancroft Library's Latina Americana Collection, one of the world’s foremost repositories for historical and contemporary research on Mexico and Central America, the collection includes rare manuscripts and stunning visual materials, including maps, photographs, illustrations, and graphic art.

Highlights

• Bancroft Collection of Sermons containing a significant collection of sermons ranging from c.1650s-c.1850s
• Collection of works published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, chiefly illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada representing a wonderful collection of Mexican chapbooks, broadsides, single-fold pamphlets, handbills, and other printed ephemera. Topics covered in this very visual collection include death in art, festivals, Mexican wit and humour, the Revolution, social life and customs
• Indigenous language materials offering a diverse range of linguistic content including Nahuatl, Otomi, Tzeltal, Zoque, Pima, Ópata, O’odham, Seri, Mazahua, Pame, and Nahua-Mixtec pictoglyphs
• Mexican Inquisition Records representing a major collection of Inquisitorial trials and other documents covering some of the most significant cases brought before the Inquisition, with materials outlining charges for blasphemy, relapsed practising Judaism, witchcraft, superstition, bigamy, and other investigations and proceedings
• “My Recollections of Maximilian” providing captivating insights into the nineteenth-century reign of Emperor Maximilian and Empress Carlota in Mexico, written by a daughter of one of Carlota’s ladies-in-waiting