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[Mexican Train]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified Mexican train in an unknown location. This train awaits its passengers. In the image there are men standing around the train, waiting.
Date: 191X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

Wounded Mexican

Description: Photograph of an unknown wounded Mexican individual. There is no accompanying information given about this photograph. The four men are carrying the wounded person to an unknown destination, perhaps to a waiting horse and wagon. The individual is presumed alive and wounded because there is no coffin and also because the top blanket is not completely draping the entire body. A train is visible in the distant background. It seems very reasonable to conclude that the wounded individual just c… more
Date: 1910/1920
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Military Train]

Description: Photograph of a Mexican Military Train. Written on the side of the train is "Ejercito Mexicano Tren Militar," which translates to "Mexican Military Army Train." This train has stopped at the Juarez train depot in Ciudad Juarez. The train car is protected by a wall of thick steal on all sides. There are 23 rifle holes along this side of the car and a turret like housing unit in the center of the car. The turret in the center housed either a small canon or perhaps even a Hotchkiss M1914 mach… more
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Soldadera]

Description: Photograph of a Mexican Revolution Soldadera. The Soldaderas were female revolutionary soldiers who went into combat to fight alongside their male counterparts.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Ciudad Juarez Train Depot]

Description: Photograph of the Train Station in Ciudad Juarez. This exceptional view of the Juarez Train station is from south looking north. The western slope of the Franklin Mountains can be seen on the right side of this photograph. On the far left side of the photo, behind the white wall, is the backside of the old Juarez Customs House. The street in front of the Customs House is Avenida 16 de Septiembre.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Train Station in Chihuahua]

Description: Photograph of a train station in Chihuahua. Accompanying information on the back of the photograph reads: "Mexico - Revolution - Railroads in Chihuahua - awaiting Villa's troops from Juarez." There is a large group of people, mostly men, waiting for the train. The sign above the entrance to the train depot reads: Chihuahua. At the center of the photograph a young boy, standing next to the horse and buggy, is looking at the camera while holding a tray of pastries.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Mobile Cannon]

Description: Photograph of a cannon on a train car. This train car was specially modified to be able to carry and support this cannon. Because the railroad tracks were so easy to sabotage or to ambush, many of the railroad cars had to be outfitted with makeshift self defense mechanisms such as this cannon. Both the federals and revolutionaries destroyed many railroad lines in order to cut off supplies to the other side.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

Wounded Insurrecto

Description: Photograph of a wounded revolutionary soldier. A wounded revolutionary soldier has been taken off a train car and is being transported to an unknown location. It has been conservatively estimated that as many as 1 million people, including civilians, were killed during the Mexican Revolution. Source - Encyclopedia Americana (2003). Other sources have put the total death toll at more than 2 million.
Date: 1910/1920
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Mexican Revolutionaries]

Description: Photograph of three unidentified Mexican Revolutionaries. These men are standing on part of a railroad section. During the Mexican Revolution multiple miles of railroad tracks were dynamited and destroyed by both sides in order to prevent supplies and men from reaching their intended destinations.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Journalist of the Mexican Revolution]

Description: Photograph of journalist on a train. John Reed is identified in this photograph as the gentleman standing on the extreme left hand side of the photograph. Mr. Reed is wearing a dark colored vest and a stripped tie.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Soldiers Unloading Horses]

Description: Photograph of soldiers unloading their horses in Columbus, New Mexico. The troops are part of the 8th Cavalry regiment sent from Fort Bliss, Texas to Columbus after the Mexican rebel raids.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Just Waiting]

Description: Photograph of men waiting to board the train with their horses. These trains would shuttle men, horses, and supplies north where the fighting was taking place.
Date: 191X
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Mobile Machine Gun]

Description: Photograph of Mexican Constitutional soldiers with a machine gun. Mexican Federal soldiers can be seen displaying some of their fire power in this photograph. The gun displayed in this photo is the Mle Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Mexican Revolution]

Description: Photograph of a mass gathering of Mexican Revolutionaries. In this photograph these men, women and children are preparing to board a train on their way to the fighting. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of men can be seen on both sides of these two trains awaiting their turn to board the train cars. Two young boys can be seen on horseback on the left middle side of this photograph.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Derailed N de M Locomotive]

Description: Photograph of a derailed N de M locomotive train. The engine number is 862. Insurrectos have surrounded what is left of this train and appear to be salvaging whatever supplies that they can find useful. The N de M is officially known as Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México. The N de M absorbed the Mexican Central Railroad in 1909.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library
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