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[Riddled with Bullets, Juarez, Mexico]

Description: Postcard of a destroyed building in Juarez, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, viewed from the street. There are bullet holes on all sides of the exterior, all of the windows have been destroyed, the roof no longer exists, and there is heavy smoke damage around the windows and top. There is a picket fence lining the yard, along a sidewalk and other damaged buildings are visible in the background (right). Handwritten text on the back is dated January 18, 1913 and signed by E. W. Grinnell.
Date: January 18, 1913
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921 & Grinnel, E. W.
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Adobe House]

Description: Postcard image of a typical adobe house in Mexico. This is a picture of a residential adobe house somewhere in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. A smiling Mexican woman stands in front of his house - probably her home. Next to the woman stand two young girls - most like the woman's daughters. On the right side of the adobe house is the back end of a horse buggy. The back of the postcard reads: "This is an ordinary adobe house".
Date: 1912~
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Mexican Quarters #1]

Description: Postcard image of an unidentified rural neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, with the handwritten label "Mexican Quarters" at the bottom. The image was taken from a hill and there is a mix of adobe houses and wooden shacks with wooden fencing built around an open square below, and other buildings along the ridge of other hills in the left and center parts of the image. In the square, an unidentified woman is hanging laundry and several horses are visible, as well as a wagon; three other peo… more
Date: March 1914
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Mexican Family, Ciudad Juarez]

Description: Postcard image of an unknown Mexican Family in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. One Mexican man sits on his donkey as he is facing the Mexican family - perhaps he is a visitor. A Mexican family of six pose in front of their adobe house. Father sits with his hat in his hands. Mother, wearing the dark colored dress and also holding a small child, stands behind her husband. A young boy and a teenage girl flank each side of the woman who is holding the baby. And finally an older woman, someo… more
Date: 1915~
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Mexican Quarters #2]

Description: Postcard image of an unidentified rural neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, with the handwritten label "Mexican Quarters" at the bottom. The image was taken from a hill and there is a mix of adobe houses and wooden shacks with wooden fencing built around an open square below, and other buildings along the ridge of other hills in the left and center parts of the image. In the square, an unidentified woman is hanging laundry and several horses are visible, as well as a wagon; three other peopl… more
Date: March 21, 1914
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Landscape in Mexico]

Description: Photograph of a landscape in Mexico. The foreground of the image is flat land with well manicured grass. There are a few trees in this area around houses that are on the right side of the image. In the middle ground of the image, the flat land gives way to a densely wooded area and past this area a town is visible in the distance.
Date: [1940..1960]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Building in a field]

Description: Photograph of a house on a prairie in Mexico. The land in the image is flat and does not have very much vegetation, except for some in the background. There is a house in the middle of the image that has a flat roof and has a road leading up to it. There are some mesas and mountains in the background of the image.
Date: [1930..1950]
Creator: Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), III
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Mexico]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: October 8, 1961
Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mexico]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Chihuahua City in Mexico.
Date: October 8, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Mexico]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Brenda, the season's second tropical storm which sideswiped the Yucatan Peninsular and has headed into the Gulf of Mexico.
Date: August 20, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Quakes]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Alaska's palmer observatory reports a moderate earthquake rocked a wide area in Alaska about 70 miles southwest of Anchorage.
Date: August 31, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Crash & Quake]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Spanish Air Ministry who says that there is just one survivor in the crash of a US military cargo jet. The Earthquake that killed more than 600 persons in Mexico hit an area that has suffered a serious food problems.
Date: August 29, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Earthquake]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a death toll in the earthquake that rocked Southeast Mexico has risen above 600.
Date: August 29, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Allende's Widow]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the Mexican government who says that it has granted political asylum to the widow of Chilean president Salvador Allende.
Date: September 13, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Truckers]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of independent truckers who joined other truckers across the nation in a protest of reducing speed limits, higher fuel prices and low freight rates.
Date: February 1, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mexican Family, Ciudad Juarez 2] -- same as ark:/67531/metapth187918

Description: Postcard image of an unknown Mexican Family in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. One Mexican man sits on his donkey as he is facing the Mexican family - perhaps he is a visitor. A Mexican family of six pose in front of their adobe house. Father sits with his hat in his hands. Mother, wearing the dark colored dress and also holding a small child, stands behind her husband. A young boy and a teenage girl flank each side of the woman who is holding the baby. And finally an older woman, someone's a… more
Date: 1915~
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[News Script: Builders welcomed]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 20 nationally-recognized home builders winning a fishing trip to Mexico, sponsored by the Minneapolis-Honeywell Company.
Date: November 29, 1953
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Mexican Rebel Camp]

Description: Photograph of a Mexican Rebel Camp. Dozens of rifles can be seen standing upright against the walls of adobe structures. Several groups of men are gathered around small individual campfires preparing their meals. In the center of the photograph, seven men can be seen gathered around a small canon. The canon is a "Blue Whistler" style canon. The Blue Whistler canon was a United States Civil War era canon.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Partner: El Paso Public Library
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