Title: Plaza Mayor of Mexico Description: Plaza Mayor of Mexico; 1847 lithograph depicting the plaza and Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico in Mexico City at the time of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848); the war was a U.S. and Mexican territorial dispute between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers that led to open war between the two countries on May 13, 1846; the war ended with U.S. troops in possession of California, the Southwest, northern Mexico, and central Mexico from Veracruz to Mexico City; in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded to the U.S. the territories of California and New Mexico and all the land up to the Rio Grande River, and also relinquished its claim to Texas; in return, the U.S. paid Mexico $15 million; Category: Mexican-American War Keywords: cathedrals, churches, Metropolitan Cathedral, Mexican War (1846-1848), Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Texas, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, United States, U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), 1840s. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2100 x 1438 (3.02 MPixels) (1.46) Print Size: 17.8 x 12.2 cm; 7.0 x 4.8 inches File Size: 8.67 MB (9,092,372 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038646 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
|