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Traveling Mexico ’s path to freedom
On Sept. 16, it will be 200 years since Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla , a most unusual priest, gave the battle cry for Mexicans to rid themselves of the ruling Spanish by any means necessary.We have the Fourth of July. Mexico has Diez y Seis de Septiembre. For those of us without an emotional connection to 1810, the bicentennial is an excuse to get down into Hidalgo Country. The cities and towns …
Anfora Mexico
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Historic Print (L): [Pueblo Indian woman making pottery outside adobe house, San Ildefonso, New Mexico] $57.00 This is a museum quality, reproduction print on premium paper with archival/UV resistant inks. Date: 1927 March 10.Subject: Photo by Gabriel Moulin, San Francisco, Calif. No. 1784. Caption card tracings: Indians–Camps; New Mexico; Indians–Pottery; Photog. I.; Indian tribes–Pueblo; Indians–Women; Geogr.; Shelf.Notes: Format: SOURCE: Library of Congress… |
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Historic Print (L): [Store, with baskets and pottery in foreground, Tampico, Mexico $57.00 This is a museum quality, reproduction print on premium paper with archival/UV resistant inks. Date: [between ca. 1890 and 1923]Subject: Markets–Mexico–Tampico (Tamaulipas)–1890-1930.Notes: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection.Format: Photographic prints 1890-1930.SOURCE: Library of Congress… |
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Historic Print (L): In the pottery market at Guanajuato, Mexico $57.00 This is a museum quality, reproduction print on premium paper with archival/UV resistant inks. Date: New York, N.Y. : American Stereoscopic Company, c1901.Subject: Pottery–Mexico–Guanajuato–1900-1910. Markets–Mexico–Guanajuato–1900-1910.Notes: H9493 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R.Y. Young.Format: Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.SOURCE: Library of Congress… |
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The Pot That Juan Built (Pura Belpre Honor Book. Illustrator (Awards)) $10.81 Quezada creates stunning pots in the traditional style of the Casas Grandes people, including using human hair to make brushes and cow dung to feed the fire. This real-life story is written in the form of “The House That Jack Built,” and relays how Juans pioneering work has changed a poor village into a prosperous community of world-class artists. Illustrated by Caldecott Medal winner David Diaz… |
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Mexican Tiles: Color, Style, Design $7.50 Masako Takahashi, coauthor of the best-selling Mexicolor, now turns her attention to the vibrant tiles that are such a key element in Mexican style and design. Bring a festive new look to any home or garden with the ideas in Mexican Tiles. Masako Takahashi leads a colorful architectural tour through Mexico, revealing the many ways tiles are used for function and decoration, adding color and intere… |
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Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery $29.68 In 1974 Seven Families in Pueblo Pottery was published to accompany an exhibit at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology; twenty years later there are some 80,000 copies in print. Like Seven Families, this updated and greatly enlarged version by Rick Dillingham, who curated the original exhibition, includes portraits of the potters, color photographs of their work, and a statement by each potter about… |
