[Texas]: [Border War]:

Pennsylvania Division on the Border. Looking South from the 2nd Artillery. Camp Stewart - El Paso Tex. 1916 [caption title].

El Paso, Tx. J.W. Medley & I. Shulman, 1916. About 9.5 x 51.25 inches. Backed on board. Some tanning to board. Minor spotting along edges, minor staining and some surface lift along top left edge, left edge, and left bottom edge from being previously framed. Good plus. Item #3127

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. The photographers, J. Urban Medley and Isaac Shulman of El Paso, Texas were prolific chroniclers of the American Southwest and Mexican borderlands, with a studio at 1709 Montana. A striking panoramic image of a large camp near El Paso during the Texas Border War.

Price: $650