Cortez Collection

Ricardo Cortez - American silent film actor
Ricardo Cortez (Jacob Krantz) (1900-1977) - American silent film actor, shown here in the role of Paris in The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927). Date: 1927

Hernan Cortez in Mexico
Hernan Cortez landing at Tabasco, Mexico 10, presented with 20 women including Marina by the Mayans 11, and destroying a Mayan temple and idols 12. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

Henri Bernard Dabadie as Telasco in Fernand Cortez
Baritone opera singer Henri Bernard Dabadie as Telasco in Fernand Cortez by Gaspare Spontini, Academie Royale de Musique. Handcoloured lithograph by F

Soprano opera singer Mlle. Grassari as Amazili in Fernand Cortez by Gaspare Spontini, Academie Royale de Musique. Handcoloured lithograph by F

Music cover, Varsoviana, dance music by Francisco Alonso
Music cover, Varsoviana, new dance music by Francisco Alonso. circa 1850s

Dance, the Cortez
A Spanish or Mexican step, sufficiently popular to inspire this painting, but which failed to keep up the pace... Date: circa 1912

The Flirtation Waltz (1927)
How to do the new Flirtation Waltz arranged by Cortez and danced by Alfred Arnold and Elaine Kendall Date: 1927

Cortez and Peggy
The dancing cabaret performers, Cortez and Peggy, who in 1924, following a successful residency at Rectors in Paris, went on to delight Londoners at the Hotel Metropole. Date: 1924

Hernando Cortes (1485-1547) - Spanish conqueror of Mexico. Date: 1485-1547

Bright Lights of Reno, Nevada, USA -- the Biggest Little City in the World. Date: 1941

Entrance of Cortez into Mexico

The dancing team of Cortez and Peggy, New York, 1929
The dancing team of Cortez and Peggy in the Shubert show Boom Boom, New York, 1929 Date: 1929

Cortes & Montezuma
The first meeting between Cortez and Montezuma

Guatemozin Surrenders
After three months of heroically defending Tenochtitlan, GUATEMOZIN, son- in-law and successor of Montezuma, surrenders to CORTEZ

Gaspare Spontini
GASPARE SPONTINI Italian composer whose operas include " La Vestale" (1807), " Fernand Cortez" (1809), and " Nurmahal" (1822)

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