Colección documental sobre la independencia mexicana

Orígenes del estancamiento del siglo XIX, 1780-1820. La depresión económica inmediata y sus secuelas, 1820-1840. Recuperación lenta y gradual (1850 a 1870). El Porfiriato. Integración del mercado y expansión económica (1880-1913).

An autobiographical testimony as told by Héctor García (b. México 1923), one of the most influential photojournalists in Mexico during the first half of the 20th century, illustrated with a large number of full-page black and white plates of famous personages like Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Pedro Infante, Maria Felix, along unique images of important events. Author Rivera who dedicated close to 5 years defines this editorial project as "Thanks to this extraordinary photographer and thorough chronicler, the reader has the great opportunity to be taken into those passages of the cultural,...

México tiene siglos de luchar contra el absolutismo, el despotismo y la tiranía, y hasta contra la dictadura. Podrá el pueblo mexicano sobrevivir el gobierno del Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).

1888, pt. 2, includes meteoroloical observations reported from the Observatorio Meteorológico-Magnético de Central Mexico, for the years 1877-1888.