Femme de la campagne. Rio de la Plata – environ de Buenos Aires.

Rio de la Plata. Woman from the countryside. Argentina.

AMÉRIQUE, Femme de la campagne. Rio de la Plata – environ de Buenos Aires, Montévidéo.

As Rio de la Plata (Spanish: River of Silver) is the 290 km long and up to 220 km wide estuary of the great South American streams Paraná and Uruguay designated. The Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata (Spanish Virreinato del Rio de la Plata) was the southernmost of the Spanish viceroyalties in Latin America. It comprised coarsely the present states of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, wherein only a part has been effectively controlled.

Source: Le Musée cosmopolite. Costumes actuels de tous les peuples, gravés sur acier par les premiers Graveurs de Paris. Paris, Ancienne Mon Aubert, ca. 1850-1860.

Continuing

Picturesque and archaeological journey through Mexico, by Carl Nebel 1836.

El Hacendero et son majordome, by Carl Nebel 1834

La Mantilla. Mexican morning suit. A light lady’s coat.

Las Tortilleras. Costumes from the villages in the south of Puebla, Mexico.

Mexican Rancheros wearing sombreros by Carl Nebel.

The War Between the United States and Mexico by George Wilkins Kendall.

Habitants de Tierra Caliente. People from Tierra Caliente Mexico.

The charro. The mounted cattle herder of Mexico. The Spanish vaquero.

Mexican feather head-dresses and the mode of wearing them.

Las Tortilleras. Costumes from the villages in the south of Puebla, Mexico.

Mexican China Poblana dance costume

THE story of Catalina de Erauso. The fighting nun.

A Zapotec woman of South Mexico

Traditional Mexican costumes 1850s.

Indigenous of Chapultepec. Around Mexico City 1840.

Costumes of Mexican Actec at the time of Hernán Cortés.

Hawaii, Philippines, Cuba. Our islands and their people by José de Olivares.

History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Famous Indian leaders.