Nineteenth-century views of Mexico City

Reblogged in part from BibliOdyssey, 3/30/2008:

Mexico and Environs ['Mexico y sus Alrededores']

The album of chromolithographs, 'México y sus Alrededores' (Mexico and Environs), is online at NYPL. [A copy of the original is held by the Thomas J. Watson Library here at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.] The principal lithographer/artist for the project was Casimiro Castro, one of Mexico's foremost landscape artists in the nineteenth century. The forty illustrations were originally published in 1855-1856 [available at Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (click 'leer'), which includes the text]. The version at NYPL was published in 1869.

Speaking of NYPL, check out the newly designed Digital Gallery, announced as a 'soft launch' last week.