Columbus (N.M.) -- History -- 20th century -- Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Postcards and Photographs of the Pershing Expedition and the Mexican Revolution
Collection — Box 410
Identifier: PAAC-0087
Scope and Contents / Alcance y Contenido
This collection consists of two series of postcards and photographs of the Mexican Punitive expedition, also known as the Pancho Villa expedition, in Columbus, New Mexico and Nogales, Arizona. It also includes a few postcards of the Mexican revolution in Northern Mexico.Esta colección consiste de dos series de postales y fotografías de la expedición punitiva, también conocida como la expedición contra Pancho Villa, en Columbus, Nuevo México y Nogales, Arizona. También incluye...
Dates:
1915 - 1917