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Photograph album of 6th U.S. Cavalry during Mexican Expedition against Pancho Villa
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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.
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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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Photographs of the Doheny Scientific Expedition to the Hava Supai Canyon, Northern Arizona
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Photograph album of automobile trips through the West and Mexico
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A photograph album containing 128 photographs documenting two separate excursions by automobile, one undertaken in 1937 and the other in 1939. The first trip appears to have been taken by a family group of five who may have lived in Iowa or Missouri. Their trip photographs are all captioned, and include images of their group and the car, the roads, the sights they visited, and sometimes motels or cabins. They traveled through Texas, New Mexico (including Laguna Pueblo), Arizona, and California, where they visited numerous locations. They are seen at stops in and between Los Angeles and San Francisco, including missions, Hollywood, and three snapshots taken at the Huntington Library. A typed record of the miles traveled, gas used, and cabins they stayed in is pasted to the back of the album. The 1939 trip features mostly photographs of Texas, including parks, landmarks, and visits to friends' houses. They also visited Mexico, including a bullfighting ring, and New Orleans, Louisiana. One photograph of a wooden shack in Arkansas is captioned indicating it is an African American dwelling.
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