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Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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

Punitive Expedition into Mexico Pictorial Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PICT-986-015
Abstract Collection consists of photographs and photomechanical postcards related to Pershing's Punitive expedition of 1916.
Dates: 1916-1917

Theodore E. Hedlund Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PICT-000-535
Abstract Collection consists of photographs relating to Pershing's Punitive Expedition into Mexico in 1916.
Dates: 1916