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

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.

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 album consists of 133 photographs and 1 postcard of U.S. military troops in Nogales, Arizona and along the U.S. – Mexico borderland during 1916. The subjects in this album include the Mexican Punitive Expedition, also known as the Pancho Villa expedition, in Nogales, AZ, military encampments, landscapes of the Chihuahuan desert, portraits of U.S. military officers and Mexican people, town views, buildings, and animals. Some places include the Rio Grande, Santa Cruz river, Sierra Diablo,...

Scope and Contents Photos in in Series II: The Border are related to Hall's 1988 book "The Border: Life on the Line" and feature images taken along the US border with Mexico.