{"id":202,"date":"2009-04-27T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=202"},"modified":"2015-01-08T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T18:43:44","slug":"historias-para-ninos-mexicanos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2009\/04\/27\/historias-para-ninos-mexicanos\/","title":{"rendered":"Historias para ni\u00f1os mexicanos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the turn of the twentieth century, Spanish publishers the Maucci brothers commissioned Mexican artist Jos\u00e9 Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) to illustrate a new series of children&#8217;s stories on the history of Mexico, the <em>Biblioteca del ni<\/em><em>\u00f1<\/em><em>o mexican<\/em><em>o<\/em>.\u00a0 Each story was published with a colorful, and often rather gruesome, wrapper illustration depicting the contents within, and several black-and-white illustrations within the text.\u00a0 One of the first attempts to bring history to Mexican children, the stories were sixteen pages each, and were bound together, at about the same time, in thematic groups of about twelve.<\/p>\n<p>Houghton Library, with funding from Widener Library&#8217;s program on Latin America, Spain and Portugal, has recently acquired a set of 85 of these stories, bound in seven volumes.\u00a0 Three of Posada&#8217;s covers can be seen here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2009\/04\/ninos1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-204 alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2009\/04\/ninos1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2009\/04\/ninos2.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-205\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2009\/04\/ninos2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-206 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2009\/04\/ninos3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More of Posada&#8217;s covers for the series can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/libweb.hawaii.edu\/libdept\/charlotcoll\/posada\/posadabiblio1.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, from a collection at the University of Hawaii Library.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00008b\"><a href=\"http:\/\/id.lib.harvard.edu\/aleph\/011944238\/catalog\" target=\"_blank\">*LMC8.F9100.899b<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0 Purchased with the Andrew Preston Peabody Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the turn of the twentieth century, Spanish publishers the Maucci brothers commissioned Mexican artist Jos\u00e9 Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) to illustrate a new series of children&#8217;s stories on the history of Mexico, the Biblioteca del ni\u00f1o mexicano.\u00a0 Each story was published with a colorful, and often rather gruesome, wrapper illustration depicting the contents within, and 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