Box 39

Scope and Contents This series of postcards is likely related to the mobilization of the Las Cruces National Guard in 1916, following Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico. Donor thought they may have been collected by Fred Quesenberry Sr. who was in the unit. Fred was the brother of Joseph Quesenberry.

Scope and Contents / Alcance y Contenido This collection consists of 252 photographs and postcards from the Mexican Punitive Expedition led by Gen. John Pershing between 1916 and 1917 in the U.S. – Mexico borderland after Pancho Villa’s raid in Columbus, New Mexico. Most of the photographs show military encampments, troops, officers and their wives, and Gen. Charles Farnsworth during the expedition. The collection also includes photographs of the 16th U.S. Infantry in El Paso, Texas in 1914. These photographs and postcards were taken...

Scope and Contents / Alcance y Contenido This collection consists of 234 black and white photographs from the Mexican Punitive Expedition, which was commanded by General John J. Pershing in the aftermath of Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico on March 9, 1916. The collection includes several pictures taken by one of Dr. Musgrave’s friends or relatives who, as reporter for an Ohio newspaper, covered the events following Villa’s raid. Many of the original photos in this small but important collection are hand annotated on the...