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Charles Farnsworth Photographs of the Mexican Punitive Expedition

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: PAAC-0082
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...
Dates: 1912 - 1918

Photographs of the Mexican Punitive Expedition and the New York National Guard

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: PAAC-0083
Scope and Contents / Alcance y Contenido This collection consists of an album with a couple of newspaper clippings on Col. Orval P. Townshend, but mostly black and white photographs and postcards of the U.S. Army and New York National Guard. Some photographs were taken in the Rochester, New York area while others were taken during the Mexican Punitive Expedition in New Mexico and Mexico between 1914 and 1919. The album contains photographs of Joseph H. Williams, troop H (cavalry unit), military encampments, and army daily life. This...
Dates: ca. 1914 - 1919

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