BEIN 2007 +198: Case mutilated., Plan accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress., Ortellius' map of Mexico, 1579, on lining-paper at end of v.2., "The Mendoza codex is a Mexican pictographic manuscript prepared on the authority of Don Antonio de Mendoza, the first viceroy of New Spain, for Charles V ... A Spanish priest, familiar with the Nauatl, or Mexican language, was employed by the viceroy to set down in Spanish the explanations of the glyphs as interpreted by the Mexicans themselves."--v.1, p.3., The facsimile includes the original pictographs in colors and the Spanish explanations., and Issued in case.
Publisher:
Waterlow & Sons, Limited
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Mexican, Indians of Mexico, Languages, Writing, Antiquities, and History
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, 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, 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, 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, and 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
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Leather binding embossed with the initials "E. H." and a geometric design., Individual photographic prints are 20.2 x 25.2 cm. and smaller, accompanied by manuscript captions., and Captions inscribed in some negatives.
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. Images include United States artillery, cavalry, and infantry, and Mexican federal and revolutionary soldiers, in addition to individuals in military camps, refugee camps, and prisoner of war camps. Other images include corpses on the battlefields and city streets, views of towns, and depictions of vehicles, such as trucks, trains, and an airplane, Identified events include the burning of Tijuana, Baja California, during a battle on May 9, 1911; the Osaple celebration parade in El Paso, Texas, in Fall 1912; the aftermath of shelling by the U.S.S. Chester of the Mexican Naval Academy, Veracruz, Veracruz-Llave, April 1914; the United States Army Tournament at Washington Park, El Paso, October 9, 1914; the Great Military Parade in El Paso, April 6, 1915; and an outdoor church service at Camp Cotton, Texas, April 11, 1915. Undated events include the recovery of war refugees off the coast of San Diego, California, and a horse stable fire at Fort Bliss, Texas, Identified photographers include Jim A. Alexander, El Paso, Texas; Frank C. Hecox of the Scott White and Company, El Paso, Texas; Walter H. Horne; C. M. Maigne; Calvin Osbon, P. Flores Pérez, Mexico; R.F. Pollock, Alamogordo and Cloudcraft, New Mexico; Robert Runyon, Brownsville, Texas; and Lt. F. R. Undritz, United States Army, in addition to an unidentified photographer with the mark in images "oTa", and a series of images created by an unidentified cavalryman, Identified publishers and distributors of postcards include Albertype Company, Brooklyn, New York; Arthur A. Kline and Company, El Paso, Texas; E. C. Kropp Company, El Fenix, Veracruz, Mexico; Fedtner Printing Company, Omaha, Nebraska; International Film Service; International News Service; G. J. Kavanaugh, Publisher, El Paso, Texas; H. H. Stratton, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Max Stein Publishing House, Chicago, Illinois; Passing Show Printing Company, San Antonio, Texas; S. H. Kress & Company, Scott White & Company, El Paso, Texas; Underwood & Underwood, New York, Identified locations in Texas include Abram, Brownsville, Granjeno, Hidalgo, Houston, Laredo, McAllen, Mission, Pharr, Rio Grande City, San Antonio, Terlingua, and Von Ormy. Locations represented in the vicinity of El Paso, Texas include the military installations at Fort Bliss, Camp Cotton, Fort Hancock, and Camp Pershing, in addition to views of city streets and Washington Park. Other identified locations in the United States include Cloudcroft and Columbus, New Mexico. Identified locations in Mexico include Juárez, Chihuahua; Matamoros, Tamaulipas; Naco, Sonora; Tijuana, Baja California; and Veracruz, Veracruz-Llave. Other images depict the landscape along the Rio Grande River and international border between the United States and Mexico, Identified individuals include Pancho Villa, Venustiano Carranza, and United States army officer Charles B. Hazeltine, Identified military groups in the United States Army include the 6th Infantry Division, 16th Infantry Division, 20th Infantry Division, 22nd Infantry Division, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 13th Cavalry Regiment, and 15th Cavalry Regiment, 5th Field Artillery Regiment, and the 6th Field Artillery Regiment, and Brief notes on postcards by correspondents including Clyde Bartlett, 13th Cavalry Regiment, Troop B; Harry D. Brown, Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania; William Dobson, aboard the U.S.S. Chester; Robert Mills, South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; E. W. Murray, Providence, Rhode Island, to his parents Emma Murray and Henry Murray; Clarence Schindorff, Fostoria, Ohio; Corporal Charles Trenkle, 69th Regiment of the New York National Guard; and Ernest J. Trinkle, aboard the U.S.S. Chester
Description:
Accompanied by a container list (in box 1). and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico, United States, Texas, Abram (Tex.), Brownsville (Tex.), Camp Cotton (Tex.), Camp Pershing (Tex.), Cloudcroft (N.M.), Columbus (N.M.), El Paso (Tex.), Fort Bliss (Tex.), Fort Hancock (Tex.), Granjeno (Tex.), Hidalgo (Tex.), Houston (Tex.), Juárez (Chihuahua, Mexico), Laredo (Tex.), Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico), McAllen (Tex.), Mexican-American Border Region, Mission (Tex.), Naco (Sonora Mexico), Rio Grande City (Tex.), San Antonio (Tex.), Terlingua (Tex.), Tijuana (Baja California, Mexico), Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico), Von Ormy (Tex.), and Washington Park (El Paso, Tex.)
Subject (Name):
Alexander, Jim A., Bartlett, Clyde., Brown, Harry D., Carranza, Venustiano, 1859-1920., Dobson, William, aboard the U.S.S. Chester., Flores Pérez, P., Hazeltine, Charles B., Hecox, Frank C., Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921., Maigne, C. M., Mills, Robert, of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania., Murray, E. W., Osbon, C. (Calvin C.), Pollock, R. F., Runyon, Robert, 1881-1968., Schindorff, Clarence., Trenkle, Charles., Trinkle, Ernest J., Undritz, F. R., Villa, Pancho, 1878-1923., Albertype Co., Arthur A. Kline and Company., Chester (Battleship), E. C. Kropp Company., El Fénix (Firm), G. J. Kavanaugh (Firm), H. H. Stratton (Firm), International Film Service., International News Service., Max Stein Publishing House., Mexico. Ejército, New York (State). National Guard. Infantry Regiment, 69th, Passing Show Printing Company., S.H. Kress & Co., Scott White & Company., Underwood & Underwood., United States. Army, United States. Army. Infantry Division, 6th, United States. Army. Infantry Division, 16th, United States. Army. Infantry Division, 20th, United States. Army. Infantry Division, 22nd, United States. Army. Regiment of Artillery, 5th, United States. Army. Regiment of Artillery, 6th, United States. Cavalry, United States. Cavalry. 13th Regiment. Troop B, United States. Cavalry. 13th Regiment, United States. Cavalry. 15th Regiment, United States. Cavalry. 4th Regiment, United States. Navy, Great Military Parade, and United States Army Tournament
Subject (Topic):
History, Dead, Military camps, Prisoners of war, Refugee camps, Refugees, Revolutionaries, and Armed Forces
