This photographic album of 45 visiting cards contains portraits of French and Mexican political and military figures—including Napoleon III and Benito Juárez—indigenous people, Mexican street vendors, and images of pre-Columbian statuary.

Photographs depict objects from industrialist and poet Auguste Génin's collection of archaeological, cultural, and natural objects found in Mexico, including pre-Columbian archaeological items from the Huichol, Tarahumara, and Zapotec civilizations.

The complete set of six volumes of this Mexican modernist journal, published and edited by Wolfgang Paalen.

A 168-page album with photographs, sketches, and manuscript notes assembled by Louis Falconnet, an officer in the French army, while on his tour of duty in Mexico (1864–66) at the time of the French intervention.

Over 600 images by Mexican, European, American, and unknown photographers, spanning from the beginning of the French intervention to the Mexican Revolution and including albumen, collodion, and gelatin silver prints, cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, photo albums, and postcards.

Five cartes-de-visite with portraits of Emperor Maximilian and Empress Carlota; a group portrait of Maximilian's supporters in Querétaro; a composition photograph of portraits of Maximilian, his generals, and Carlota; and another of Benito Juárez and his Republican generals, including a young Porfirio Díaz.

Twelve full-length painted portraits on vellum of Inca rulers by an unidentified artist who was probably an indigenous Peruvian or Bolivian artist.

Forty-two cabinet card views taken by archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon and his wife, journalist Alice D. Le Plongeon, during their archaeological campaigns in the Yucatán Peninsula.