A series of images relate to the Mexican revolution including images of revolutionary troops, military installations, casualties, and dead federal soldiers at Cananea, Naco and Agua Prieta, Sonora. Several images show machine guns and artillery outside the machine shop of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, which Maderista revolutionaries under the command of General Alvaro Obregón had captured from General Pedro Ojeda at Naco, Sonora in April 1913., Images of locations in the city of Cananea include the Hotel Alexandria, Sonora Hotel, and city jail. Images of people in Cananea include a view of men in conversation on a street, with one of the men identified as George Wiswall, general manager of the Cananea Cattle Company, and the other man the revolutionary general, Alvaro Obregón; Thomas Keys driving an automobile; and a studio portrait of a Chinese man, identified as "Lee from the Hotel Alexandria" posed sitting in an automobile., Images of ranching activities include cowboys and ranchers riding horses, herding cattle, lassoing livestock, branding steers, eating around a chuck wagon, and competing in rodeos at locations on the Cananea Ranch, including corrals located in Moreta and San Juan, and a ranch house in Nogales. Images of identified cowboys and ranchers include Roy Adams, Arthur Dunbar, Dick Hays, William H. Holmes, Cal Musgrave, Sherman Rinehart, E. T. Strickland, Fred Walker, and Sam Watson, in addition to a division foreman, Donald G. Valentine, and Charles Wright, the corral boss of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company. Several men and horses are identified in images by their nicknames. Other images depict women wearing cowboy and ranch clothing, and include Elsie Holmes and Midge Burrows, and Miss Hacker of Cornado, Calif. An image shows a man tanning a mountain lion hide., Photograph album with images attributed to Elsie Holmes and William H. Holmes that document the ranching operations of the Cananea Cattle Company at the Cananea Ranch and the copper mining operations of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, primarily 1911-1914. William Cornell Greene, a rancher, mine owner, and investor, had established and operated both of these ventures during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. William Holmes was a ranch foreman at the Cananea Ranch., and Views of copper smelting operations for the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, include images of ore bins, smelters, shops, and railroad yard. Several images show a crowd of Mexican miners awaiting a conference with James S. "Rawhide Jimmy" Douglas, Jr., the general manager of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company during a strike in April 1913. An additional image shows a group of men that includes Harry Gooding, after installing a steam turbine in the powerhouse at Cananea, ca. 1905.
Description:
Captions inscribed in some negatives., Individual photographic prints are 20.2 x 25.2 cm. and smaller, accompanied by manuscript captions., and Leather binding embossed with the initials "E. H." and a geometric design.
Subject (Geographic):
Cananea (Mexico)--Pictorial works, Cananea Ranch (Mexico)--Pictorial works, Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works, Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920--Pictorial works, and Sonora (Mexico : State)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Burrows, Midge, Cananea Cattle Company--Pictorial works, Cananea Consolidated Copper Co.--Pictorial works, Douglas, James S.--(James Stuart),--1868-1949, Dunbar, Arthur, Gooding, Harry, Greene, William Cornell,--1853-1911, Hays, Dick,--cowboy, Holmes, Elsie, Holmes, William H.,--cowboy, Hotel Alexandria (Cananea, Mexico)--Pictorial works, Musgrave, Cal, Obregón, Alvaro,--1880-1928, Ojeda, Pedro,--general, Rinehart, Sherman, Sonora Hotel (Cananea, Mexico)--Pictorial works, Strickland, E. T, Valentine, Donald G, Walker, Fred, Watson, Sam, Wiswall, George, and Wright, Charles,--cowboy
Subject (Topic):
Cattle--Mexico--Sonora--Pictorial works, Chinese--Mexico--Sonora--Pictorial works, Copper mines and mining--Mexico--Cananea, Ranch life--Mexico--Sonora--Pictorial works, Ranches--Mexico--Sonora--Pictorial works, and Ranching--Mexico--Sonora--Pictorial works
Postcard photographs related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution
Container / Volume:
Folder 72
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Collection includes postcard photographs created by commercial and amateur photographers of locations and events related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution, ca. 1910-1917.
Subject (Geographic):
Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
United States. Army--Pictorial works and United States--Armed Forces--Pictorial works.
Postcard photographs related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution
Container / Volume:
Folder 47
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Collection includes postcard photographs created by commercial and amateur photographers of locations and events related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution, ca. 1910-1917.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Bliss (Tex.)--Pictorial works. and Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
United States. Army--Pictorial works
Subject (Topic):
Prisoners of war--Mexico--Pictorial works and Prisoners of war--United States--Pictorial works.
Postcard photographs related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution
Container / Volume:
Folder 69
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Collection includes postcard photographs created by commercial and amateur photographers of locations and events related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution, ca. 1910-1917.
Postcard photographs related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution
Container / Volume:
Folder 56
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Collection includes postcard photographs created by commercial and amateur photographers of locations and events related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution, ca. 1910-1917.
Subject (Geographic):
McAllen (Tex.)--Pictorial works. and Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works
Postcard photographs related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution
Container / Volume:
Folder 5
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Collection includes postcard photographs created by commercial and amateur photographers of locations and events related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution, ca. 1910-1917.
Subject (Geographic):
Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works and Mexico--Pictorial works
Postcard photographs related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution
Container / Volume:
Folder 22
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Collection includes postcard photographs created by commercial and amateur photographers of locations and events related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution, ca. 1910-1917.
Description:
On verso: ALS, 1914 Oct 14, to Ansonia, Ohio.
Subject (Geographic):
Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works and Mexico--Pictorial works.
Postcard photographs related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution
Container / Volume:
Folder 53
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Collection includes postcard photographs created by commercial and amateur photographers of locations and events related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution, ca. 1910-1917.
Subject (Geographic):
Hidalgo (Tex.)--Pictorial works. and Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works
Postcard photographs related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution
Container / Volume:
Folder 46
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Collection includes postcard photographs created by commercial and amateur photographers of locations and events related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution, ca. 1910-1917.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Bliss (Tex.)--Pictorial works. and Mexican-American Border Region--Pictorial works
