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[Photograph of a Wagon with Lumber]

Photograph of a wagon full of wood, pulled by a team of mules, with a man standing on the back of the wagon. A handwritten note on the back of the photo describes it as a wood freighter from "pre-automobile" years.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Photograph of Dora Wilson Riding a Horse]

Photograph of Dora Wilson sitting on a white horse with several other horses and a mule in the background.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Photograph of Chon Dominguez]

Photograph of Chon Dominguez sitting on one of his mules in the team of mules and horses pulling a large oil tank in a wagon.

Date: 1908~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

Camper Going Home

Early-day campers leaving the Bloys' Camp Grounds after a meaningful week of worship. One man is driving a wagon pulled by mules, he wears a tall hat. Buildings stand behind the scene.

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

Surveying Party on Ojinaga

Photograph taken in San Francisco, Ojinaga, Mexico in 1917. The men are (L-R): Mr. Nestor Baeza, Mr. Manuel Dominguez, and Mr. Francisco Granado. They using mules to help Mr. Baeza measure his land.

Date: 1917

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

Burro named "Gansole"

Photograph of "Gansole", a faithful burro on the Brite Ranch in 1928. This animal served as a school bus, night horse, and a way to get home.

Date: 1928

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

Burro "Mida Mora"

Photograph of little Tommy Wells wearing a sombrero and sitting on a burro taken in 1927. The burro, named Mida Mora, was a blue mule captured from the bandits who raided the Brite Ranch in 1917. This burro served many years a a night horse, which was a horse left in the pen at night to gather other horses for use in the morning.

Date: 1927

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

Border Patrolmen Stopping a Group of Smugglers

Photograph of border patrolmen coming upon a group of smugglers by the river in Presidio. Fred Ritter is in the foreground. Smugglers brought sotol, a drink similar to tequila, across the border during US prohibition.

Date: 1930~

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

Maria Brito with Two Mules

Photograph of Maria Brito standing out of doors between two mules. She wears a hat and a dress. This picture was taken in Big Spring, Texas.

Date: 1929

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Marfa Public Library

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[Photograph of a Wagon with Lumber]

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Camper Going Home

Surveying Party on Ojinaga

Burro named "Gansole"

Burro "Mida Mora"

Border Patrolmen Stopping a Group of Smugglers

Maria Brito with Two Mules