El Hacendero et son majordome.

Mexico by Carl Nebel 1836

Voyage pittoresque et archéologique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Mexique by Carl Nebel 1836. Lithograph by Frédéric Lehnert.

Mexican-American War by George Wilkins Kendall. Drawings by Carl Nebel

The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated, embracing pictorial drawings of all the principal conflicts, by Carl Nebel, with a description of each battle, by George Wilkins Kendall.  Published by: D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1851

Carl Nebel 1805-1855 was a German engineer, architect and artist. He was known for his precise images of Mexican landscapes and his depictions of the Mexican-American War. He studied in Hamburg and Paris and then went to America for a few years. In 1836 he published in Paris an illustrated description of Mexico where he had lived from 1829 to 1834. The preface to his book, Voyage dans la partie Archaeological pittoresque et la plus intéressante du Mexique, Alexander von Humboldt wrote.

Related: Our islands and their people as seen with camera and pencil by José de Olivares (1899). Keywords: United States, American colonialism. Philippine–American War. Spanish–American War.

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1. Suisse costumes nationaux
2. Traditional French national costumes.
3. Tyrolean national costumes 1835.
4. Souvenir de L’Exposition Universelle de Vienne.
5. Costumes of Japan and Java.
6. The Peninsula war. Character, Costume in Portugal and Spain.
7. Our islands and their people. Hawaii, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba.
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9. Historical and folk costumes by Franz Lipperheide.
10. The costume of Turkey. Ottoman Empire 18th century.
11. Traditional Dutch national costumes.
12. The Switzerland national costumes of 17th ‚18th, 19th century originals.
13. Folk dresses from Norway, Dutch, Germany and Hungaria.
14. Mexico by Carl Nebel 1836.
15. Typical pictures of Indian Natives.
16. The People of India
17. Views of Darjeeling: With typical native portraits and groups.
18. History of the Indian Tribes of North America of the Indian Tribes of North America
19. Chinese sceneries in 19th century. by Thomas Allom.
20. Provincial Russia. Costume and Culture.
21. Costume of the Russian empire by Edward Harding.
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23. Historical European costumes by Auguste Wahlen.
24. The Highlanders of Scotland, 1870.
25. Costumes and scenery of Afghanistan.
26. Views of Darjeeling: With typical native portraits and groups.
27. The dark continent. Africa, the landscape and the people 1931.
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29. Traditional folk costumes of Italy and France in 1821.
30. The Serbs in the Adriatic. Their types and costumes 1870-1878.

Links:

• Mexican-American War – Maps & Images
• The Price of Freedom:  MEXICAN WAR
• Narrative of the Texan Santa Fé expedition: comprising a description of a tour through Texas, and across the great southwestern prairies, the Camanche and Caygüa hunting-grounds, with an account of the sufferings from want of food, losses from hostile Indians, and finale capture of the Texans, and their march, as prisoners, to the city of Mexico  – Kendall, George W. (George Wilkins), 1809-1867. Wagner-Camp (4th ed.) Two Volumes – Volume I., Volume II.

Further readings:

• Encyclopedia of Media and Propaganda in Wartime America [2 volumes]
• Carl Nebel, XIX Century Itinerant Painter, Bilingual edition: Spanish/English)
• The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 (Men-At-Arms Series, 56)
• The Mexican-American War by Oscar De La Hoya
• A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent (Simon & Schuster America Collection)