Collections

The LACIPI archive provides its storing and distribution resources to collections in other countries, and to printing presses and publishing houses, in order to join efforts for the study of popular prints. The following collections are currently available through this website:

Chávez-Cedeño

This collection consists mainly of prints from the personal collection of Inés Cedeño Vanegas, the granddaughter of publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. This collection of prints is among the most relevant to learn about the life and work of the multifaceted founder of the publishing house. With 1628 prints, it currently stands at the main collection in our archive.

Basílica de Guadalupe

This material is available in our collections as a loan from the Archivo Histórico de la Basílica de Guadalupe, and is the result of a digitalisation carried out by this institution, which helped retrieving broadsheets and chapbooks of religious content from various printing presses.

Galilea Brito

Galilea Brito’s personal collection of around 242 prints of various formats from different printing presses. The items of this collection date from the 19th to the mid-20th century and were published by Sixto Casillas, Cristóbal Velasco, Antonio Vanegas, Eduardo Guerrero, Antonio Reyes, among other publishers.

Biblioteca Nacional de México

The National Library of Mexico facilitated the digitalisation of more than 300 broadsheets printed in the first decades of the 20th century by Eduardo Guerrero, a popular printer, contemporary and successor of Vanegas Arroyo.

Agustín Clemente Pliego

Aiming to integrate all of them to the collection, we currently have 2 “pliegos de cordel” of the 250 found in Castellar de Santiago, Spain by researcher Agustín Clemente Pliego. A selection of 50 of these prints was published in Literatura de cordel y cultura popular: alegorías de la miseria y de la risa, entre los siglos XIX y XX, a facsimile edition published by the Universidad de Jaén, which includes forewords by José Manuel Pedrosa and Clemente Pliego himself.

El Colegio de San Luis

The Rafael Montejano y Aguiñaga Library of El Colegio de San Luis (COLSAN) houses the Vanegas Arroyo y Posada Collection, made up of just over 180 prints from three different private collections. As its name indicates, the Fund is made up of broadsheets and chapbooks published by the Mexican editor Antonio Vanegas Arroyo during the period between centuries (XIX-XX). Through its online catalogue, the Library offers access to digitizations of these materials, which are now also available through the LACIPI repository.