1974 Mexico~Americano Calendario Historico: Mexican American Historical Calendar... [Cover title]

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co, 1973. Very good. 19¼" x 14". Loose leaves printed rectos only held with steel bar at top. Very good: a few light stains and stray ink to cover page; a few minor creases.

This is a wall calendar dedicated to Mexican American history. The full title of its cover page includes the Spanish text and its translation reads, "Great Men of Spanish, Mexican and Indian Heritage and their Significant Contributions to the History of the Southwest."

Each page contains bilingual text of an important events and people related to Mexican American history for each day of the year as well as a large portrait (truncated) and biography of a historically important person of Mexican descent. These notables include mural painter and lithographer Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexican President and soldier Vicente Guerrero, civil rights leader Mario Obledo, Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II, and revolutionaries Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. The daily entries include birth dates of other renowned Mexican Americans, and establishments of missions, towns, and states. There are also dates for important events like wars and revolutions, as well as discoveries and accomplishments of Mexican individuals. We learn that the "Foreign Miners Tax Law of 1850, aimed at eliminating Mexicans from the gold fields, went into effect" on May 20, for example, and that Los Angeles was "founded by Mexicans of mixed Indian, Negro, and Spanish descent" on September 3, 1781.

OCLC shows two holdings of the Calendario, and a Google search showed two others; searching each institutions' catalogs revealed only one holding of this edition, at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library. (Inventory #: 4666)