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Calendario de las señoritas megicanas para el año 1838
Digitized full text of the 1838 calendario published by Mariano Galván

Research on Calendarios

Mexicanos en su tinta : calendarios by Isabel Quiñónez (e-book)
Traces the development of the calendarios and their publishers from their 17th-century origins to 1900.

Mexican National Identity by William H. Beezley
Explores almanacs as well as independence festivals, children's games, and itinerant puppet theaters in 19th century Mexico.

Presentación: Calendario de las señoritas mexicanas

Panel discussion about several editions of the Calendario de las señoritas mexicanas held at the Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara in 2014. Add captions (under CC) or change playback speed (under settings).

Latin American Material Culture

Latin American Textualities: History, Materiality, and Digital Media (e-book)
(2018)

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Key Databases for Scholarly Sources

Handbook of Latin American Studies
This is a selective annotated bibliography of articles, book chapters, and papers on Latin American life and culture.
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
Find scholarly articles, books, and book chapters on world literatures and related fields. Use the "Find it! @Wellesley" link to get the full text. If we don't have it, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Peer reviewed articles and book reviews of world history (excluding the US and Canada), 1450 CE to present and searchable by historical time period.
America: History & Life with Full Text
Peer reviewed articles and book reviews of American and Canadian history, prehistory to present and searchable by historical time period.
JSTOR
Scholarly journal articles and books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Does not include the most recent 3-5 years of many journals.

Historical Documents and Images

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America (American Indian Histories and Cultures)
Primary sources from the largest and best collection of materials on Indigenous (Native American) history, including maps, treaties, letters, journals, art, and more.
Dates: 1500-1998 CE
Empire Online
Primary sources tracking forms of colonialism, empire, and imperialism, from the explorations of Columbus to recent decolonization, with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Dates: 1482-2003 CE
European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
An index to printed primary sources about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Not all full text will be instantly available, use interlibrary loan for what is not.
Dates: 1493-1750 CE
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange
Broad range of materials exploring the history of fifteen major commodities, including cotton, fur, and silver and gold. You can filter by commodity, date, and region to explore documents relevant to themes of this course.
Artstor
Digitized images of art, architecture, and other forms of visual culture from around the world, from museums, archaeology, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference works, dating from B.C.E. to present. (Requires creation of an Artstor account to download images.)

Museum Collections

American Museum of Natural History, Division of Anthropology: Textile Collection (New York)
Searchable database with handwritten descriptive information (manuscript catalog & tag/textile cards) about each item. For example, search for “huipil.”
Indigenous Americas Collection at the Textile Museum (The George Washington University)
Latin American Art Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Use the Chronology menu to narrow to a particular time period.
Spanish Colonial Art & 19th Century Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
"Presents the artistic achievements of Latin America, from Columbus’s first encounter with the people of the Caribbean through the region’s independence movements and the subsequent formation of nation states."
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Anthropology Collection
Use the "Search by Field" tab to search the collections by object type (huipil, rebozo), geographic names (Bolivia, Oaxaca), or culture (Zapotec, Mixtec). Check the box to limit to results with images.

Selected Books on Women & Colonial Latin America

Women Through Women's Eyes: Latin American Women in Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts
The Women of Colonial Latin America by Susan Migden Socolow
Traces the effects of conquest, colonization, and settlement on colonial women
Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 To 1806: Texts and Contexts
Primary source documents and contextualizing essays. Includes a section on colonial cross-dressing. (2018)
Mexican National Identity: Memory, Innuendo, and Popular Culture by William H. Beezley
Explores almanacs, independence festivals, children's games, and itinerant puppet theaters in 19th century Mexico.

Fashion History & Theory

Fashion as Communication by Malcolm Barnard
(2002)
Global Textile Encounters (e-book)
This collection explores three significant textile and clothing cultures: China, India and Europe, and how fashions and traditions have travelled through space and time.(2014)