Skip to content

OPEN TODAY: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.

Tickets

Rare Books

Mexico marches

Image not available



You might also be interested in

  • Image not available

    Popielecka, Marianna. Letters to Ludwik Opid, 1938 (8 items)

    Manuscripts

    Consists of letters and postcards dated: January 28 (postcard); March 25 (postcard); May 2 (postcard); May 18 (with envelope); July 3 (postcard); July 18 (postcard); [October 2?] (with envelope); and 29 November 1938.

    mssModjeska

  • Image not available

    Mexico [printed matter]

    Manuscripts

    The Mexican Oil Question with Documents and Translations; The Mexican Constitution of 1917 Compared with The Constitution of 1857; A Hot-House Constitution: The Mexican Constitution of 1917 by William H. Burgess; Germany's Monstrous Trade Plot: The World's Work, September 1918; What the Mexican Conference Really Means: It Represents Desire of the People, Deprived of Human Rights, to Re-establish Themselves in the Scheme of Social Evolution by Mary Austin; The Commerce Reports, no. 283; Congressional Record, Sixty-Fourth Congress, First Session; The Marine News: Mexican Oil Situation Has Vital Bearing On Merchant Marine Future

    mssGibbon

  • The carnival edition of the Times-Democrat 1886 Shrove Tuesday, March 9th 1886 subject and pageant of Rex the king of the carnival

    The carnival edition of the Times-Democrat 1886 Shrove Tuesday, March 9th 1886 subject and pageant of Rex the king of the carnival

    Visual Materials

    Image of a depiction of the Shrove Tuesday pageant held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 9, 1886, published in a special carnival edition of the Times-Democrat; eighteen floats pulled by horses showing Aurelian's Triumph and historical scenes are presented in five panels; newspaper columns and advertisements on verso.

    priJLC_ENT_004738

  • Image not available

    Los Angeles Times newspapers

    Manuscripts

    Original newspaper pages for May 18, 1884 (pages 1-6) and May 20, 1884 (pages 1-2, 5-6). Printed as Los Angeles Daily Times, original name of the newspaper before "Daily" was dropped from name.

    mssLAT

  • Carnival edition of the Picayune March 9th 1886 : Krewe of Proteus procession subject visions of other worlds

    Carnival edition of the Picayune March 9th 1886 : Krewe of Proteus procession subject visions of other worlds

    Visual Materials

    Image of a parade of eighteen horse-drawn carnival floats, depicting fanciful scenes of the terrain and extraterrestrial creatures of planets and celestial objects inhabited with various sea creatures, reptiles, insects, plants, pineapples, cactuses, a horned instrument, each with a numbered caption: "No. 1 Proteus," "No. 2 The Sun," "No. 3. Mercury," "No. 4. Venus," "No. 5. The Moon," "No. 6. Mars," "No. 7. Juno," "No. 8. Vesta," "No. 9. Harmonia," "No. 10. Flora," "No. 11. A Comet," "No. 12 Iris," "No. 13. Ceres," "No. 14. Amphitrite," "No. 15. Jupiter," "No. 16. Saturn," "No. 17. Uranus," "No. 18. Neptune"; the verso contains four pages of the "Carnival Edition" of "The Daily Picayune" for March 9, 1886, with advertisements and text describing each of the parade cars; the newspaper and images advertise the parade floats organized by the krewe of Proteus for the 1886 Mardi Gras Carnival celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana.

    priJLC_ENT_001693

  • Image not available

    Mexico [printed matter]

    Manuscripts

    Mexico: Woodrow Wilson: Fights for the Just Rights and the Liberty of an Oppressed and Helpless People - Against Billions of Money; Mexico: The Original American Civilization and the Mexico-American Question; The Mexican Policy of President Woodrow Wilson as it Appears to a Mexican; The Truth About Mexico: Released for Publication for Morning Papers of Saturday, October 7, Not Before from Republican National Committee; Affairs in Mexico: Message from the President of the United States, 6th Congress 1st Session, Document No. 324; Duty of Government to Protect Its Citizens

    mssGibbon