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American soldiers on the Mexican border
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Texas-Mexican border views
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Portfolio of postcards. The photographic images are Albertypes by the Albertype Company, Brooklyn, N.Y. They include Brownsville and Matamoras on the Rio Grande; the Brownsville and Matamoras International Bridge (opened in December 1910), Mexican Bridge Guard; a Mexican and U.S. Guard officer side by side, U.S. Army Entrenchment and scenes of life along the border including an old corn mill, a Mexican water cart, a family outside a jacal, a cart pulled by oxen and a rattlesnake.
653741
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Every building on the Sunset Strip
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Accordion folded panoramic view on continuous strip 18 x 647 cm. folded to form 53 pages showing both sides of the street, with buildings, intersections, and signs viewed as if driving down the street.
645634
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Album of Photographic Postcards of Mexican border wars
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An album of photographic postcards pertaining to battles along the U.S.-Mexico border during the Mexican Revolution, approximately 1913-1916. Images include soldiers and officers, military camp life, views of artillery and trenches, Yaqui Indian soldiers, U.S. Army cavalry and refugee camps. Notable among the photographs are many views of dead soldiers and executions by hanging or firing squad. The compiler of this disbound album is unknown; photographs are mounted on paper album pages, and there are many handwritten captions on the pages. Dates written in captions range between 1913 and 1916, and several make reference to battles at Naco and Agua Prieta in Sonora, Mexico in 1913. Other locations represented include military encampments at Nogales, Arizona and Agua Prieta; a refugee camp at Douglas, Arizona; and a bird's-eye-view of the town of Columbus, New Mexico. Some photographs show child soldiers brandishing guns, civilian spectators viewing bodies, and one view of a U.S. airplane squadron. There are three photographs of Pancho Villa, including a group portrait with Gen. Rodolfo Fierro and Gen. Hugh Lenox Scott. Other portraits include Álvaro Obregón and officers; Yaqui leader Luis Bule; Francisco I. Madero; Pascual Orozco and General P.E. Calles. There is one view of the dead body of Enrique Portillo; other photographs of executed men are identified by nicknames or surnames only. Most of the photographic postcards are by Walter H. Horne (credit "W.H. Horne Co.") of El Paso, Texas, with several also by photographer Calvin ("Cal") Osbon of Douglas, Arizona. Osbon's photographs are notable for lengthy, descriptive captions imprinted in the images. The formats are almost all photographic postcards, except for a few smaller photographs and one larger group portrait labelled "Carranza Cabinet" showing Venustiano Carranza and others at Agua Prieta, May, 1914.
photCL 173
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[Cotton, Robert Christie]. Notes on U.S.-Mexican Conditions Along the Border, 1909-1912
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The collection consists primarily of essays, notes and treatises by Robert Christie Cotton (b. 1885) on various topics written during his active army service and later as editor of the U.S. Infantry Journal. It includes articles and essays on the Philippines, China, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Mexican border, and World War I, among other topics. Many of the documents are typewritten.
mssCotton papers
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Pacific Electric Railway
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Includes 6 maps, some of which are accordion-folded and extra-long. Handle with care, brittle.
mssHEH
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Photograph album of 6th U.S. Cavalry during Mexican Expedition against Pancho Villa
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Photographs of the 6th U.S. Cavalry troops in Texas near the Mexico border during the Mexican Expedition (or Punitive Expedition) against Pancho Villa, 1916 to 1917. The operation was conducted by the U.S. after Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, in 1916. The photographs include soldiers and camp tents in the desert, horse corrals, troops drilling and on patrol in the mountains, men making adobe bricks, and a soldier posing with his gun pointed at the camera. Most of the images have captions written in the negative, and several are photographic postcards. All identified locations are in Texas: Marfa, Pecos Canyon, Dick Love's Ranch, and the Sierra Blanca train depot.
photCL 670