The following materials are preserved within the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department of the Benson Latin American Collection. Please send comments or questions to: blac@lib.utexas.edu or call the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department at (512) 495-4578.

This collection is the basis for the book, The Architecture and Sculpture of Oaxaca, 1530s-1980s, published by the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona, Tempe, in 1995. CODEX Editores, Mexico, is publishing a Spanish version, La arquitectura y la escultura de Oaxaca 1530s-1980s. Volume one, La ciudad, appeared in 1992. Volume two, El estado, primera parte, appeared in 1994. The second and third parts await publication. CODEX Editores will also publish The City of Oaxaca: Its Architecture and Sculpture over 400 Years in English.

Notes:

The colonial architecture in almost 200 pueblos of Oaxaca is inventoried. Negatives total 1598, film positives 1280, and prints 1376. For the city of Oaxaca, negatives total 421, film positives 502, and prints 265.

Negatives and film positives are 35 mm. When mounted, film positives can be used as slides. Prints are either 10" by 8" or 8" by 5". In a few instances they are 35 mm. contact prints. A small number of color slides are among the negatives. Most photos can be dated to the 1970s and 1980s. Numbers representing Oaxaca's 30 districts are taken from Oaxaca, distritos, planos prepared by the Bufete de Professionistas del Sur.

At this time, publishers hold a number of prints for book illustration purposes. Eventually these prints will be returned to the "Mullen Collection" for filing.

• UT Press has 192 prints to illustrate Oaxaca, Architecture and Its Sculpture in Viceregal Mexico.
• CODEX Editores, Mexico, holds 140 prints to illustrate The City of Oaxaca, Its Architecture and Sculpture over 400 Years.
• CODEX Editores, Mexico, holds at least 220 prints to illustrate Parts 2 and 3 of volume two, La arquitectura y la escultura de Oaxaca 1530s-1980s.

Distritos of Oaxaca