Los de Abajo: Novela (cuadros y escenas de la revolución mexicana)
Date: 1916
Creator: Azuela, Mariano, 1873-1952
Description: First book edition of the most famous novel of the Mexican Revolution. It appeared first a serial within a local newspaper, El Paso del Norte, but later was issued as a single work. It was published in El Paso where the author resided in exile. Subsequent editions are quite different from this first version.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at El Paso
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149945/
[Dead On The Battlefield]
Date: 1915~
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of dead Villistas at the battle of Celaya. In this image there are bodies piled together on the ground. With information given "These dead Villistas are the result of the battle of Celaya in which Obregon defeated Francisco Villa and his Villistas. In this one battle Villa lost approximately 4000 men with another 6000 being taken prisoner. 120 of the imprisoned officers were executed shortly afterwords."
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth63572/
Causas de la revolución en México : y como efectuar la paz
Date: 1915
Creator: Martínez, Paulino
Description: This short treatise, written in Havana in 1913, espouses the land reform goals and ideals of Emiliano Zapata and the Zapatistas while condemning the regimes of Carranza and Huerta,. It proposes an idealized agrarian society with land held in common and a system of "Escuelas Granjas" or rural schools. He deplores the evils of clericalism, plutocracy, and militarism. The three headings in the document are "Manifiesto al Pueblo Mexicano," "Bases Generales," and "Pensamiento de la Revolución: Como educar al Pueblo para la Nueva Reforma."
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at El Paso
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth188055/
[General Felipe Angeles]
Date: 1915~
Creator: unknown
Description: Copy negative of General Felipe Angeles posing for the camera.
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
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[Body of Rodolfo Fierro]
Date: 1915~
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of Rodolpho Fierro's body after he drowned near Chihuahua; he is covered in a white sheet and still wearing a hat. A group of men are standing or kneeling around the body. According to accompanying information, "Rodolfo Fierro, number one killer and body guard of Pancho Villa. Fierro was the 'real bad man' of the Revolution. He was known as El Carnicero or The Butcher. After being thrown off his horse, he [drowned in] quicksand near Casas Grandes, Chihuahua on 13 October 1915. At the time of his death, Fierro was marching towards Sonora."
Contributing Partner: El Paso Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth63657/
Map of Florida showing Seaboard Air Line Railway and connections.
Date: 1915
Creator: unknown
Description: Map shows early twentieth century Florida geography, county lines, cities, towns, railroads, and steamship lines. Inset: [Panhandle of Florida]. Scale not given.
Contributing Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth192431/
[Stove flue damper]
Date: 1915
Creator: unknown
Description: Stove flue damper, pat. July 20, 1915. 11.8 cm diameter damper body with three oval holes. Handle is spring coiled. See 1999.008.014, 1999.008.015 for other examples of same model
Contributing Partner: Fort Bend Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1964/
[Stove flue damper]
Date: 1915
Creator: unknown
Description: Stove flue damper, patented July 20, 1915. 4.5 " (11.8 cm) diameter with coiled handle. Damper body is round with three oval holes.
Contributing Partner: Fort Bend Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1966/
[Jane Long Oil Portrait]
Date: 1915
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph of Jane Long Oil Portrait (see 1987.003), taken before painting was altered to make Long look young. In dark wooden oval frame with berry or nut and leaf motif applique at top, bottom, left, right.. Dates are derived from photographer's mark, Schlueter, who worked in the Houston and Fort Bend County areas in the 1910s.
Contributing Partner: Fort Bend Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2056/
the W.P. Woolley Grocery Store in Needville, Texas.
Date: 1915
Creator: unknown
Description: Photograph mounted on gray cardboard mat of the W.P. Woolley Grocery Store in Needville, Texas. Four men on porch (one African-American) and a boy in the doorway. Two chickens in foreground. Back of photo identifies man with white shirt near post as W.P. Woolley and man in hat and tall boots as possible Ned Gibson.
Contributing Partner: Fort Bend Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth578/