Latin Americans

Overview This collection contains a broadside distributed across the Republic of Mexico by the Mexican Congress in 1837, decreeing the abolition without exception of all slavery in all of the Republic.

Overview The papers include posters made for the History 251 class in the spring of 2012 about life in Rio de Janeiro.

Overview This collection consists of correspondence, fliers, business records, audio, and digital images charting the life and career of Bianca DeLeon.

Overview Original letters from Charlotte of Belgium, chiefly as Carlota, Empress of Mexico; papers of Felix Eloin, Maximilian’s chef du cainet civil; photographs, engravings, and drawings of Charlotte, of Mexico City, and of members of the Mexican military. Mexican sheet music from 1859-1908 and newsclippings also reflect the colection' s main subjects of political and military matters in Mexico during the reign of Emperor Maxilimilian, the role of Juan Benitez and other political figures of the time,...

Overview This collection consists of business records, lyrics, news clippings, photographs, audio, video, and digital files documenting the career of David Rodriguez.

Abstract: The complete unpublished manuscript containing an account of the Church's activities in 16th century Mexico in relation to the indigenous population.

Abstract These records include the daily business, publicity, and photographs for the Rice University's HACER student group. (3 boxes)

Overview Materials collected by the Hispanic Association for Cultural Enrichment at Rice (HACER)to document the history of Hispanics at Rice University, including written and oral accounts of alumni from the 1920s-1950s.

Overview The collection consists of fifty-seven inexpensively produced booklets of verse with woodblock print or photo image covers. The booklets are quarto size, 4-3/4” by 6-3/8”, and range in length from eight to forty-eight pages. The content is in verse in stanzas of six, seven, eight, or ten lines. The booklets are examples of a folk art known as literature de cordel, or “string literature,” because of being attached to strings as a means of displaying them for sale. The...