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Lot 53
[TEXAS--MEXICAN BORDER WAR] Large panoramic photograph of Camp Stewart, El Paso, Texas, 1916.
A long panoramic photograph inscribed in the image "Pennsylvania Division on the Border. Looking South from the 2nd Artillery. Camp Stewart - El Paso Tex. 1916" and "J.W. Medley & I. Shulman Photographers/El Paso Tex." About 10 x 51 inches (25 x 130 cm); in its original wooden frame. Some spotting along edges, well preserved overall, unnexamined out of frame.
One of a group of panoramic photographs depicting Camp Stewart at El Paso during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1919), known here as the Mexican Border War or Pershing's Punitive Expedition. The camp was set up in 1916 and the goal of the conflict was to stop Pancho Villa's military actions on the United States side of the border. American and Mexican forces pursued Villa for months and managed to quash the rebellion but Pancho Villa himself was never captured. This photograph provides a good view of the tents and small building erected in this dry Texas landscape.
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