bobbycaputo:Pages From a Gorgeous Illustrated Atlas of 19th-Century Mexico These beautiful pages
bobbycaputo: Pages From a Gorgeous Illustrated Atlas of 19th-Century Mexico These beautiful pages come from the Atlas Pintoresco e Historico de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (Picturesque Historical Atlas of the United States of Mexico), by cartographer Antonio García Cubas. The volume was published in 1885 in Mexico City. According to historian Raymond B. Craib, while Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, throughout the middle of the 19th century Mexican intellectuals and elites worried about establishing Mexico’s image as a coherent and viable nation. To that end, cartographers with the Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y Estadística (Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics) took up a variety of projects meant to chart the history and present resources of the Mexican state. (Continue Reading) -- source link