Entre lo visual y lo narrado: acercamientos a la colección de fotografíasde México en la Exposición Histórico-Americana de 1892

In 1892 México attended the Historical American Exhibition of Madrid with a proposal that included a collection of 768 photographic objects. This article depicts the research conducted with these materials to address the country´'s presence and representation in the exhibition. It unfolds ways of approaching these pictures, emphasizing its context as a group and the links with other sources of information, and how they are built as a visual and written corpus which functions to inquire the outlook of the country that Mexico intended to expose.