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Description: By boldly seizing British and American oil properties, on March 18, 1938, in the name of his eighteen million people, President Lazaro Cardenas telescoped Mexican history into two significant epochs. Before expropriation and After.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1939]
Call number: 646998
Creator: Plenn, J. H (1905-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Margolis & Moss, April 2018.
Dimensions: 22 cm
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Popielecka, Marianna. Letters to Ludwik Opid, 1938 (8 items)

Manuscripts

Consists of letters and postcards dated: January 28 (postcard); March 25 (postcard); May 2 (postcard); May 18 (with envelope); July 3 (postcard); July 18 (postcard); [October 2?] (with envelope); and 29 November 1938.

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Mexico [printed matter]

Manuscripts

The Mexican Oil Question with Documents and Translations; The Mexican Constitution of 1917 Compared with The Constitution of 1857; A Hot-House Constitution: The Mexican Constitution of 1917 by William H. Burgess; Germany's Monstrous Trade Plot: The World's Work, September 1918; What the Mexican Conference Really Means: It Represents Desire of the People, Deprived of Human Rights, to Re-establish Themselves in the Scheme of Social Evolution by Mary Austin; The Commerce Reports, no. 283; Congressional Record, Sixty-Fourth Congress, First Session; The Marine News: Mexican Oil Situation Has Vital Bearing On Merchant Marine Future

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The carnival edition of the Times-Democrat 1886 Shrove Tuesday, March 9th 1886 subject and pageant of Rex the king of the carnival

Visual Materials

Image of a depiction of the Shrove Tuesday pageant held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 9, 1886, published in a special carnival edition of the Times-Democrat; eighteen floats pulled by horses showing Aurelian's Triumph and historical scenes are presented in five panels; newspaper columns and advertisements on verso.

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Los Angeles Times newspapers

Manuscripts

Original newspaper pages for May 18, 1884 (pages 1-6) and May 20, 1884 (pages 1-2, 5-6). Printed as Los Angeles Daily Times, original name of the newspaper before "Daily" was dropped from name.

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Carnival edition of the Picayune March 9th 1886 : Krewe of Proteus procession subject visions of other worlds

Visual Materials

Image of a parade of eighteen horse-drawn carnival floats, depicting fanciful scenes of the terrain and extraterrestrial creatures of planets and celestial objects inhabited with various sea creatures, reptiles, insects, plants, pineapples, cactuses, a horned instrument, each with a numbered caption: "No. 1 Proteus," "No. 2 The Sun," "No. 3. Mercury," "No. 4. Venus," "No. 5. The Moon," "No. 6. Mars," "No. 7. Juno," "No. 8. Vesta," "No. 9. Harmonia," "No. 10. Flora," "No. 11. A Comet," "No. 12 Iris," "No. 13. Ceres," "No. 14. Amphitrite," "No. 15. Jupiter," "No. 16. Saturn," "No. 17. Uranus," "No. 18. Neptune"; the verso contains four pages of the "Carnival Edition" of "The Daily Picayune" for March 9, 1886, with advertisements and text describing each of the parade cars; the newspaper and images advertise the parade floats organized by the krewe of Proteus for the 1886 Mardi Gras Carnival celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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State of New Mexico

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No old shelf mark. Printed in two colors to show oil and gas properties within the state. MS penciled areas of interest. Stamp: Rand McNally & Company. R.A. McNally, Representative, Los Angeles. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.

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