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Buffalo Soldiers in Columbus, New Mexico Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PICT-2010-001
Scope and Content Photos show soldiers at rifle and machine gun practice, at chow line, at attention, etc. On the back of one photo is a pencil note indicating that the soldiers were in a company from the 24th Infantry, based at Columbus, N.M., January 20, 1918.
Dates: 1918

Dr. Homer Musgrave Photograph Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: PAAC-0039
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...
Dates: ca. 1911 - 1917