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19182322Various locations in Texas 1918. Very good. Fifteen leaves illustrated with fifty-five mounted photographs and a few ephemeral clippings identifying locations. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black cloth string-tied. Light soiling to covers. Minor wear to some photographs but overall a handsome selection. A unique collection of vernacular photographs collected by a soldier in the 8th U.S. Cavalry identified simply as D. Watson serving in southwest Texas during the Mexican Border War. The first two pictures emanate from Quartermaster Training Camp in Jacksonville Florida. This is followed by one photo from Barron Field in Everman Texas. The remaining photographs document Watson's time in Ruidosa Texas an unincorporated Texas-Mexico border town in Presidio County about a hundred miles from Terlingua. Here Watson includes photographs of himself and other soldiers and their horses posed in front of old stone structures in orange groves amongst canyons in front of an automobile and more with images of Mexican adobes a wagon advertising an "electric light company" the cavalry preparing their horses scenes of the wilds of southwest Texas and the E.H. Carlton company store. E.H. Carlton was also a principal in the Carlton Van Loan Company an oil speculation firm active in the 1920s. An eclectic and intriguing selection of Texas-Mexico border images from an important period in history. unknown
1916225131916. Mexico Border Wars United States and Mexican Border War photograph archive circa 1914-1916 documents military operations and occupation scenes produced during the period of armed confrontation between the United States and revolutionary Mexico in the years surrounding the Mexican Revolution. Created during the escalation of cross border conflict that followed the Tampico Affair and the subsequent United States occupation of Veracruz in April 1914 the photographs record American and Mexican troops engaged in urban combat military drills occupation ceremonies and field movements along the Gulf Coast and northern borderlands. The images provide visual documentation of the military campaign ordered by President Woodrow Wilson during a decade of instability in Mexico when revolutionary conflict cross border raids and American intervention shaped relations between the two nations.<br /> <br /> Archive of nineteen photographs created between approximately 1914 and 1916 primarily real photo postcards with one tintype portrait. Most photographs measure approximately 3.5 × 5.5 inches and several retain contemporary captions identifying locations and military activity. Scenes documenting the United States occupation of Veracruz include captions such as "The 5th Brigade U.S. Army Commanded by General Funston taking Possession of Vera Cruz April 30th 1914" and "Federal Mexican Soldiers Firing from Street Corner First Day of Battle April 21st." Additional images depict United States troops in training or formation including "U.S. Soldiers Hiking in the Sand Hills around Vera Cruz Mexico" "U.S. Army at Vera Cruz Mexico" and "Nebraska's Battalion." Mexican federal troops appear in photographs captioned "Serving Machine Guns" and assembled "for Grand Review Vera Cruz Mex." A dramatic real photo postcard titled "Firing Squad Mexico" depicts six riflemen firing upon a condemned prisoner kneeling at the water's edge. Another image captioned "Adobe House Destroyed by Artillery in Mexico" shows a bullet scarred building façade with mounted troops nearby. Panoramic troop movements appear in photographs captioned "Mexican Infantry entering Juárez Mex." and "Scene at Vera Cruz Mexico during Battle of April 21st and 22nd" the latter showing soldiers lying prone in firing positions. The archive also includes four hand colored patriotic "sweetheart" postcards sent by soldiers to loved ones bearing sentimental captions such as "Don't Forget the One You Left Behind." The tintype depicts an American soldier wearing a campaign hat and service uniform standing before a canvas tent. One postcard bears a lengthy manuscript letter written from McAllen Texas dated September 27 1916 in which the writer reports: "Still here! & it's hot! but I have a nice job and plenty to do. I love it and I'm sure you would enjoy it. It is a splendid experience and I am proud of the N.G. The flag is O.K. in our hands."<br /> <br /> These photographs emerge from the years of heightened tension along the United States Mexico border between 1910 and 1919 when revolutionary upheaval within Mexico and armed incursions across the frontier led to repeated military mobilization by the United States. The occupation of Veracruz in 1914 marked one of the most significant American interventions of the period and produced several days of street fighting between United States Marines Army units and Mexican defenders. Light handling wear to several cards with occasional corner creasing and one example with minor margin loss. Tintype shows light surface spotting but retains clear detail. Overall very good condition. The photographs collectively record both the violence of the conflict and the symbolic displays of military presence that accompanied the occupation including troop drills reviews and staged patriotic imagery circulated through postcards. unknown
19460001566PRESIDIO TEXAS WEST TEXAS TX. Good. 1946. On offer is a very interesting archive of two 2 manuscript relics of mid-20th Century border problems of illegal immigration being note pads of a West Texas border patrol agent detailing his daily activities during work hours. They start in May 1st 1946 through September 30th 1951. He worked West Texas around Presidio and does a super job detailing his work life from the mundane: shoeing his own horse and the names of other patrol agents he worked with to the exciting: hunting and catching aliens hauling them off to jail naming the ranches he patrolled and much more. All pages in both booklets are written on. The binding is loose in the books but all pages intact and overall G.; 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF WEST TEXAS PRESIDIO BORDER PATROL AGENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IRREGULAR IMMIGRATION UNAUTHORIZED IMMIGRATION UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRATION ILLEGAL ALIEN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CLANDESTINE WORKERS SANS PAPIERS WITHOUT PAPERS UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY BORDER CROSSING HUMAN TRAFFICKING HUMAN SMUGGLING SOUTH WESTERN TEXAS AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORYantiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel. . unknown
1917List2530VP 1917. Scrapbook measuring 15 ½ x 10 ½ inches. With forty leaves most with newspaper clippings and varied ephemera attached. Boards detached contents generally fine. Laid in is a blueprint map entitled Map of Part of Hidalgo County Texas Showing Line of March in my Mexican Border Service 1916. Made from Survey Notes taken on the march by Corp. C.A. Rice 74 Inf. N.G.U.S. Buffalo N.Y. Armory. Map measuring 33 ½ x 14 ¾ inches irregularly shaped and apparently complete. Very Good. A scrapbook documenting the military service of 1st Sergeant Samuel Gaffney of the 74th National Guard New York in the Mexican Border Service. Gaffney documents the campaign in great detail through printed matter - with each of the forty leaves containing material affixed including panoramic photographs advertisements from local businesses along the routes programs from entertainment offered to the troops military orders and official correspondence and many affixed newspaper articles and photographs. <br /> <br /> The scrapbook is most notable for the inclusion of an unrecorded map by Charles A. Rice the Buffalo native who would eventually map the campaign in larger fashion in a map entitled Map Showing Lines and March and Border Patrols in my Mexican Border Service 1916-1917. The map here just showing the route through Hidalgo County is unrecorded. The larger map - which was produced as souvenirs for the other members of the 74th - is quite scarce as well with five copies known to exist per OCLC with two different numbers. This blueprint map which appears to be complete cartographically and missing only the ornamental border on one portion shows the route taken early in the campaign in 1916. The Buffalo native Rice 1885-1931 who would eventually settle in Texas after the conflict also wrote a history of the 74th during the campaign. Rice published the maps and memoir himself. The map shows the route in great detail showing the location of wells farms roads and identifying landowners. Water quality and abundance is understandably a common theme in Rice’s notes. Some notes show the location of bandits smugglers and the like. We find no other examples of blueprint maps by Rice. <br /> <br /> Other highlights from the scrapbook include seven panoramic photographs of the 74th encamped at Pharr; a broadside advertisement for the shop of Agustin Acevedo in Pharr listing prices of goods; a handbill advertising the 74th’s Minstrels and Great Entertainment show on September 16 1916; an advertisement for a production entitled Glorious Liberty at the National Theatre in Pharr; two circulars instructing troop movement issued by Headquarters Brownsville District; several postcards with songs about the campaign; several snapshots; a mounted albumen photograph of troops at rest with the notation “Corp Frederick Paid†verso; a typed poem entitled “Home Again†and a notebook page describing his activities from January 1917 onward; and a thanksgiving menu for 1916 for the holiday spent at Pharr. The remainder of the scrapbook is composed of affixed newspaper clippings which provide extensive information on the 74th collected in a single volume. <br /> <br /> Overall a significant scrapbook with much information to glean for students of the 74th’s activities with the map providing a unique cartographic reference of the early days of the campaign. unknown
19216158Various places in Mexico Texas and Arizona 1921. Overall about very good. 106 real photo postcards including six duplicates. Varying sizes but most approximately 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Scattered contemporary and later manuscript annotations. Light wear at edges occasionally a bit heavier. Some scattered damp and dust soiling. A substantial collection of over 100 real photo postcards that depict scenes from the Mexican Revolution and the related border war interventions of the United States Army. The images included here some quite violent in nature are dated from 1913 to 1922; most are captioned in the negative. They show ruined buildings military encampments injured soldiers and corpses on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border and in Veracruz. Also included are identified portraits of individuals such as Francisco Madero Pancho Villa on his deathbed and American General John Pershing. Many of the images are by El Paso photographer W.H. Horne who was one of the most prominent photographers of Border War incidents captured the Columbus Raid in New Mexico and photographed skirmishes near his home in El Paso. Also present are a short series of images by Cal Osborn who documented border incidents near Douglass Arizona and a group by William Hadsell William Hadsell an American resident of Veracruz who ran a Kodak store and was a prolific recorder of events there. Several Mexican photographers are represented as well. Many of the photos are quite gruesome in nature and show corpses in various states of decomposition as well as the aftermath of battles and executions but in all provide an arresting visual document of the interventions by the United States in Mexico during the 1910s. Powerful images of the Mexican Revolution and the resulting upheaval there and along the border with the United States. unknown
