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The Mexican Revolution on the Border: Primary Sources from El Paso
Camp Scene on the Mexican Border
Date: 1910/1920
Creator: Horne, Walter H.
Description: Postcard of a U. S. military camp on the U.S. - Mexican border. Two rows of tents are in the forefront; a row of cabins is seen to the right. A variety of miscellaneous items such as, wooden boards, fire wood, buckets, barrels and trash cans, are strewn on the ground in between the rows of tents. Soldiers are within the open-sided tents completing chores.
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149835/
Guarding the Bodies of U.S. Soldiers killed at Columbus, New Mexico
Date: March 1916
Creator: Horne, Walter H.
Description: Postcard of a U.S. soldier guarding the tent where the caskets of fallen soldiers are held in Columbus, New Mexico. Although not identified as such, these soldiers were more than likely lost during Francisco "Pancho" Villa's raid on Columbus on March 9, 1916.
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149837/
Executed
Date: November 19, 1913
Creator: Horne, Walter H.
Description: Postcard of a deceased unidentified man. The caption on the postcard indicates that the individual was executed. He appears to have been shot, a pool of blood runs down the sidewalk. Papers are strewn about the body. The feet of onlookers are seen on a doorstep at the top of the postcard.
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149838/
Military Observation Balloon
Date: 1910/1920
Creator: Horne, Walter H.
Description: Postcard of a military observation balloon. A group of soldiers and some children surround the balloon and look on as a few individuals secure the balloon to the ground.
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149834/
Riddled with Bullets, Juarez, Mexico
Date: January 18, 1913
Creator: Horne, Walter H.
Description: Postcard of a destroyed building, possibly a residence, in Juarez, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. Bullet holes cover the exterior of the building. All of the windows have been destroyed, the roof no longer exists, and heavy smoke damage from a fire is evident. The residence next to the building also displays major damage though not as severely. A note on the back of the postcard mentions the Juarez Racetrack and describes the present conditions in Juarez during the revolution.
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149839/
Guarding the Customs House, El Paso, Texas
Date: 1910/1920
Creator: Horne, Walter H.
Description: Postcard of a group of soldiers keeping watch at the customs house in El Paso, Texas. The customs house was located on the U.S. side of the International Bridge, the gateway to and from Mexico. The majority of the soldiers are sitting down with only a few standing. Two soldiers have their rifles slung over their shoulders.
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149836/
Heroica defensa de Ciudad Juárez : la verdad de los hechos, caracter y valor del soldado mexicano; invasión de tropas americanas y su pronta evacuación
Date: 1919
Creator: Velasco, Felipe
Description: This work provides an account of what the author terms the “heroic defense” of Ciudad Juarez against Pancho Villa’s forces. It also includes correspondence by Villa to the military garrison urging their surrender. Notably, it describes American involvement (and brief incursion into Mexico) and the Mexican embassy’s response to it in El Paso, where the work was published.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at El Paso
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149833/
El ataque a Ciudad Juárez y los acontecimientos del 14 al 18 de junio. English.
Date: 1919
Creator: Enciso Durán, Xavier.
Description: This piece was written to provide a firsthand account regarding the attack on Ciudad Juárez by Villistas and related events. It also provides information regarding the effects of the battle on El Paso, Texas and includes named civilian casualties. The official American response is also noted. The translation was probably done in the 1970s.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at El Paso
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149950/
China Town, Colonia Dublan, Mexico
Date: 1916/1917
Creator: Horne, Walter H.
Description: Postcard of U.S. soldiers from the Punitive Expedition exploring China Town in Colonia Dublan, a Mormon colony in Mexico. General John J. Pershing established his headquarters at Colinia Dublan for the duration of the expedition. Groups of soldiers converse with one another as they stop at individual tents and huts. In the far distance, a wagon is traveling away from the town.
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149842/
Orozco's Sharp Shooters, Juarez, Mexico
Date: 1910/1915
Creator: Horne, Walter H.
Description: Postcard of a group of insurrecto soldiers in the desert outskirts of Juarez, Mexico, posing for a photograph with their rifles. The caption on the postcard identifies the men as sharp shooters in Orozco's ranks, referring to the revolutionary leader Pascual Orozco. The three men in the first row are not armed.
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149841/