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Gutiérrez (Tonatiúh and Electra) collection of maps and images of the Americas
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Tonatiúh and Electra Gutiérrez collection of maps and images of the Americas
Creator: Gutiérrez, Electra
Creator: Coronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718
Creator: Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772
Creator: Hogenberg, Frans, approximately 1539-1590
Creator: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
Creator: Vecellio, Cesare, approximately 1521-1601
Creator: Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
Creator: Ortelius, Abraham, 1527-1598
Creator: Popple, Henry, -1743
Creator: García Cubas, Antonio, 1832-1912
Creator: Gutiérrez, Tonatiúh, 1929-
Creator: Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733
Creator: Moll, Herman, -1732
Creator: Fierro, Pancho, 1807-1879
Creator: Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles, 1688-1766
Creator: Bonne, Rigobert, 1727-1794
Creator: Vandermaelen, Philippe, 1795-1869
Identifier/Call Number: P840001
Physical Description: 42.48 Linear Feet(24 boxes, 20 flatfile folders)
Date (inclusive): 1523-1904
Abstract: The Tonatiúh and Electra Gutiérrez collection of maps and images of the Americas spans more than three centuries and includes
maps of North and South America, several world maps, and iconography of life, fauna and rituals in the Americas. It was assembled
by the Gutiérrezes as they researched the early history and exploration of the Americas.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in Spanish, French, German, English and Latin.
Arranged in two series: Series I. Maps, 1523-1904; Series II. Images, 1535-circa 1900.
The Tonatiúh and Electra Gutiérrez collection includes historic maps of the Americas spanning more than three centuries, with
an emphasis on Mexico and the region of Mesoamerica. The Gutiérrezes assembled this collection as they researched the early
history and exploration of the Americas and used it to illustrate their publications.
Included are more than 350 maps by cartographers, geographers and publishers from Flanders, the Netherlands, France, Italy,
Spain, England, and the Americas, including Frans Hogenberg, Abraham Ortelius, Jodocus Hondius, Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Vincenzo
Maria Coronelli, Nicolas and Guillaume Sanson, Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Herman Moll, Henry Popple, and Antonio García Cubas.
In addition, the collection includes images of life, fauna, landscapes, cities and rituals in the Americas, historical scenes,
and portrait prints of leaders from the Americas and European explorers. Included are plates from Cesare Vecellio's
Habiti antichi e moderni di tutto il mondo... (Venice, 1598), plates from Bernard Picart's
Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses des peuples idolatres (Amsterdam, 1723-1743), and watercolors by the Peruvian artist Pancho Fierro (Francisco Fierro Palas).
For item-level records of rare books, prints, watercolors and maps in the collection, search the
Library Catalog for the phrase "Gutiérrez Collection." Gutiérrez Collection numbers for maps are listed below in the inventory.
Tonatiúh Gutiérrez was the son of a high Mexican government official who served during the years of President Lázaro Cárdenas.
An Olympic swimmer in his youth, Gutiérrez became a professor of economics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
(UNAM), as well as promoter of the popular and traditional arts. During the 1960s he was the director of expositions of the
National Tourist Council of Mexico, and in the 1970s served as the head of the Fideicomiso para el Fomento de las Artesanías
(later known as Fondo Nacional para el Fomento de Artesanías, FONART), an important state trust for the promotion of folk
art. Electra López Mompradé de Gutiérrez was the daughter of Spanish republicans exiled to Mexico in 1939. She became an expert
in pre-Columbian dance and dress and Mexican culture and history. The couple lived in the district of Coyoacán in Mexico City
until Gutiérrez's death after which Mompradé moved to Spain.
Gutiérrez and Mompradé were considered important collectors and dedicated decades of their lives to researching and publishing
books concerning popular culture, folklore, art, geography and history of Mexico and the Americas. Proficient in multiple
languages, they conducted research in various cities throughout the Americas and Europe, including Mexico City, San Diego,
San Francisco, Austin, Madrid, Paris, and London. As scholars, they co-authored the majority of their works and wrote important
monographs on the history of Mexico, in particular its iconography and cartography.
The collection was partially processed in 1997. In 2013, Ednar Segura completed the processing and the arrangement of the
collection and wrote this finding aid under the supervision of Andra Darlington and Karen Meyer-Roux. Item-level cataloging
of the maps, prints and watercolors in the Research Library's online catalog by Ednar Segura and Clarice De Veyra.
Acquired in 1984.
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Tonatiúh and Electra Gutiérrez collection of maps and images of the Americas, 1523-1904, The Getty Research Institute, Los
Angeles, Accession no. P840001.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifap840001
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Prints -- Collectors and collecting
Mexico -- Social life and customs
Maps -- Collectors and collecting
Mexico -- Maps
Prints
Cartography
Maps
South America -- Social life and customs
North America -- Maps
South America -- Maps
North America -- Social life and customs