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

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 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

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