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El problema agrario en México : la acción del gobierno y la iniciativa individual

Description: Esquivel Obregón wrote this pamphlet as a means of critiquing the Diaz regime’s collusion with major landholders. Esquivel Obregón was considered a progressive and modern in his approach to government. He discusses how landholders were always able to co-opt the gains of different revolutions by swinging laws back into their favor after a return to normalcy.
Date: 1912
Creator: Esquivel Obregón, Toribio, 1864-1946.
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Partner: University of Texas at El Paso

El problema de la tierra

Description: This is a thesis submitted as the professional examination for a law degree at the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM). López examines the effects of the Mexican progressive land movement in general, agrarian issues, and problems resulting from the revolution's land concerns, and ends with offered solutions to the “problem of the earth.” He completed the exam on May 4th, 1912.
Date: 1912
Creator: López, Saraim V.
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Partner: University of Texas at El Paso

Estudio sobre la cuestión agraria : proyecto de ley

Description: This government-produced work discusses land reform and tenure in Mexico. Completed on December 15th, 1914, the second part of this pamphlet outlines Rouaix and Novelo’s agrarian recommendations to the “First chief of the Constitutional Army, Charged with the Executive of the Nation,” Venustiano Carranza. Most significant is the call for a return to the ejido system for communal use of lands by villages in an effort to raise national productivity through effective land usage. Includes: Prontu… more
Date: 1914
Creator: Rouaix, Pastor, 1874-1950. & Novelo, José I.
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Partner: University of Texas at El Paso

[Farmland in Mexico]

Description: Photograph of farmland in Mexico. The photograph is taken from the shoulder of a road that is visible on the left edge of the image. There is a grassy strip of land that separates the road from the pasture, the land for which begins at a short fence. There is a tall tree on the left side of the fence and on the right side of the fence there are many more trees in the background. There land is flat and there si a building in the middle of the pasture. In the background of the image, faint mounta… more
Date: [1940..1960]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pastoral Scene of Mexico]

Description: Photograph of a pastoral scene of Mexico from the hot springs area of the Rio Grande River. There are gathered bundles of straw located on the ground in the foreground and there are large rock formations in the background of the photo.
Date: March 24, 1978
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
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Partner: Texas Lutheran University

Atascador

Description: Pamphlet advertising real estate and agri-business in an "All American Colony in Mexico" called Atascador. Land was offered at $12.50 - 25 per acre.
Date: 1911~
Creator: Atascador Land Company
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Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Letter from E. W. Grove to Daniel W. Kempner, April 15, 1944]

Description: Handwritten letter from Daniel W. Kempner to E. W. Grove discussing importing onions from Mexico as there are none available for sale in any stores in San Benito. He states that he will send Kempner as many onions as are allowed through customs on April 17, 1944. Grove also says that it will be another 10 days before onions are harvested and that most will be diverted to the black market.
Date: April 15, 1944
Creator: Grove, E. W.
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Partner: Rosenberg Library
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