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Mexican Romantic Postcards, Center For Southwest Research
Mexican Romantic Postcards, Center For Southwest Research
Love in the Archives 2019
This collection of “cartulinas de amor” represents a little studied aspect of post-revolutionary Mexican culture and middle class ideals. These images and texts show the intimate part of society, the changing mores, views of family, home and society. The collection affords the opportunity to view many disciplines, including portrait photography, art, intimacy, love, courtship, family, family relationships, class and gender.
The collection consists of postcards that date from 1908 to the 1940s with the majority in the teens, 1920s and 1930s. Most are photographic portraits of anonymous subjects, while others feature songs, poems, or portraits of celebrities such as Lupe …
Publicity, Patron Engagement, And Prizes!, Patricia Campbell, Barbara Korbal
Publicity, Patron Engagement, And Prizes!, Patricia Campbell, Barbara Korbal
Love in the Archives 2019
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Ephemera, Unm Center For Southwest Research
Ephemera, Unm Center For Southwest Research
Love in the Archives 2019
Spanish letter of devotion, Santa Fe, April 19, 1859, from Jose Maria Sanchez to his wife Dona Paula Sena, original letter, with transcription and translation by Sonia Balasch and Aaron Taylor. Felipe Chaves Papers, MSS 10 BC, Box 1, Folder 66.
Susan B. Anthony 55th Anniversary Program, February 15, 1905, Albuquerque. The scrapbook has clippings and mementos kept by Kent, who organized and attended many social events in the Albuquerque area from 1881-1918. Margaret Kent Medler scrapbook, MSS 225 BC, Box 1.
Curated by Nancy Brown-Martinez, Archivist, Center for Southwest Research
Love In Song, Center For Southwest Research
Love In Song, Center For Southwest Research
Love in the Archives 2019
Materials from two collections were displayed.
The Latin American Sheet Music Collection, MSS 932 BC, 1835-1996, contains many illustrated scores which have the composers’ photographs and signatures. There are songs from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, and Uruguay, as well as Spain, Portugal, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. The largest component is from Mexico. The musical range represented includes popular and classical music with boleros, tangos, marches, waltzes, corridos, rancheras, fox trot and regional canciones. The majority of the texts are popular and classical sheet music that …
Wedding Photographs, Unm Center For Southwest Research
Wedding Photographs, Unm Center For Southwest Research
Love in the Archives 2019
Representing each decade from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries, CSWR has many identified (and unidentified) photographs of people demonstrating their love through marriage. At this point, our depictions are a narrow range of traditional views--brides, grooms, and wedding party configurations. However, we continue to build our collections and welcome images that would expand our definitions of love, marriage, weddings, etc.
Curated by Cindy Abel Morris, Pictorial Archivist at CSWR
Posada Prints, Unm Center For Southwest Research
Posada Prints, Unm Center For Southwest Research
Love in the Archives 2019
These four examples of broadsides (fliers sold for a few pennies) from Mexico (Mexico City, c. 1888-1920) are typical of their genre. They present poems and songs (sometime ballads known as corridos) about love -- a lover's dance, love of one's mother, secret love -- with passion and a bit of humor.
Curated by Cindy Abel Morris, Pictorial Archivist at CSWR