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Photograph album of 6th U.S. Cavalry during Mexican Expedition against Pancho Villa

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1916-1917.
Call number: photCL 670
Provenance: Purchased from Willliam Allison Books, March 2022.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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.

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Photograph album of a trip through the southwestern United States with Colonel Henry Hall

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An album containing newspaper clippings and 118 photographs chronicling a trip across the southwestern United States by Pittsburg Times correspondent Colonel Henry Hall and Richard C. Hall of Bedford, Pennsylvania. The trip began April 1, 1903, and included Indian and Oklahoma Territories; Texas; New Mexico Territory; Arizona Territory; and Juarez, Mexico. Locations are described in newspaper articles with Henry Hall's byline alongside illustrative snapshots (and a few pieces of printed ephemera) taken during the trip. Some photographs depict Henry Hall as well as agriculture and irrigation (including artesian wells), cowboys, Native Americans, buffaloes, cattle, horseback riders, street scenes, local citizens and their residences, and scenic views. Locations visited in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories include Muskogee, Oklahoma City, Okmusgee(?), Guthrie, and Lawton. Locations visited in Texas include Quanah, Childress, Goodnight, Amarillo, and El Paso. Locations visited in the New Mexico Territory include Roswell, Carlsbad, Isleta, Pecos and the Pecos River, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and pueblos at Taos. Locations visited in Arizona include an ostrich farm in Phoenix and the Grand Canyon. There are also a few photographs of Juarez, Mexico, showing the customs house, plaza, and church. There are several photographs of Santa Fe by commercial photographer, Christian G. Kaadt (1868-1905). Two articles concern the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri; several articles consider Indian affairs aw well as the issue of statehood for Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona.

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Expedition de Amanguala

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This manuscript is an extract from an account of Amanguala's expedition from San Antonio, Texas to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and of the return by a new route, from March 30 - May 19, 1808. HM 2051 is a map of the routes followed. In French.

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Photograph album of street peddlers in Mexican towns

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A small album containing 14 carte de visite-size photographs of street vendors in Mexico. The first page has a handwritten title: "Street Peddlars in Mexican Towns / A collection of 13 Old Photographs 1850 to 1860-," and the following pages have mounted albumen photographs with handwritten captions. Most portraits were taken in a studio, and they include both men and women carrying large amounts of goods or other items related to their work. Image captions are: Charcoal seller; Selling lottery tickets on Sunday; Indian selling baskets (male); Indian pottery seller; Palm leaf peddler; Birdcage peddler; Charcoal man; Indian with band of wood, in the village of Batopela [i.e. Batopilas, Chihuahua]; Indian selling wooden trays; Cargadora; Water carrier; Selling baskets; Indian peddling turkeys; Indian selling mats.

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Photographs of the Doheny Scientific Expedition to the Hava Supai Canyon, Northern Arizona

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This set of photographs depicts the Doheny Scientific Expedition in Northern Arizona, October-November, 1924. Views include the expedition party in a group portrait (item 63), traveling with equipment on horseback, and conducting archeological fieldwork. Also seen are Havasupai Indians; scenery of the Grand Canyon and Havasu Canyon, Arizona; petroglyphs, and several views of fossil impressions in stone, which some claimed to be mammal footprints. Identified people in photographs are Samuel Hubbard (expedition director), Art Metzger (assistant), Bud Clawson (guide), Charles W. Gilmore (paleontologist), Joseph F. Roop (sculptor), Fred V. Shaw, Robert L. Carson (photographer), and Elvin T. Scoyen. Ralph Arnold (1875-1961), a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, was not an official participant in the expedition but appears in some photographs, including one where he is seen photographing members of the party. Two photographs of a woman on horseback are identified as "Mrs. Arnold."

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Album 7; loose photographs

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A collection of 6 photograph albums and 1 scrapbook of clippings, 1910s-1930s, related to the family of James T. Buck, a newspaper publisher in Texas. The albums contain snapshots affixed with mounting corners, and some say Mrs. J. T. Buck inside the front cover. The photographs document the lives of a young, white, middle class couple, their children, extended family, and friends, mostly in Chillicothe or Crosbyton, Texas, with some images in California and a few other places. Only one album has captions; the others have no writing or identifications. Images show a house in the country, house interiors, children playing, pets, farm animals, family outings, cars, schools, and graduations, with the family seen over 20 or more years. African American children appear in some images: gathered in front of a house, with horses, a boy holding a white baby, and a girl standing in a road holding flowers. There are also photographic postcards of the public school in Chillicothe, Texas; the Chillicothe train depot; and a classroom of children. One scrapbook contains Crosbyton, Texas, newspaper clippings, approximately 1921-1926, regarding James T. Buck and other family members.

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