Album: Pancho Villa, Columbus, NM, Marfa, and Tex 1916, 47 Gelatin Silver and Collodion prints, original Photo Postcards and prints of similar size 1914-1922 3.5x5.5" Print ASG# UNK/3707

Loose leaf album pages on 3 ring binder first 12 pages have the specifically listed prints 2 to a page back-to-back. Additional 5 pages of newspaper notices, family pictures etc and 4 loose letters Ferguson family.

Album shows aftermath of Pancho Villa's raid in Columbus, New Mexico, other Texas and other Infantry and Cavalry camp scenes as the army moved through the Texas, New Mexico, Mexico border. Other album views and letters, Ferguson family.

Page 1 front
1. Soldiers & others in front of 2 large tents, 3.3x4.2 GSP
2. Photographer focuses on same group 3 tents back 3.4x4.5 GSP
Page 1 back
3. [3 standing man hold hand face of sitting man 5th man stands truck Building back 3.3x5.3 GSP
4.13th Cav playing taps over dead comrades at Columbus, NM GSP postcard photo by Lamp
Page 2 front
5. Newspaper cutout 4 soldiers in dry brush prone with rifles 3.5x5.3 INT. NEWS SERV. COPYR
6. Newspaper repro 6 soldiers kneeling aiming rifles torn 3.5x5.3INT. NEWS SERV. COPYR
Page 2 back
7. CO K 4th Tex Inftry, Alpine Texas, Soldiers Kneeling in front of Trees, GSP Photo Postcard 3.5x5.3 same as 49 below
8. K 4th Tex Inftry, Alpine Texas, Soldiers Standing and Kneeling in front of Trees, GSP Photo Postcard 3.5x5.3 Same as 48 below
P. 3 front
9. 7 soldiers stand sit in rocks GSP 3.75x5
10. Burial Scene after the Big Battle GSP Photo postcard 5.25x5.3 827 W.H. Horne(c)El Paso, TX
P. 3 back
11. Soldiers packing supplies/blankets on ground in camp GSP 4x5
12. Wounded Bandits in the Military Hospital at Columbus, NM GSP photo postcard 3.5x5.2
P. 4 front
13. Paisano Pass East of Marfa, Tex. GSP Photo Postcard 3.5x5.3
14. 2 soldiers I front of 5 tents GSP 3.3x5.3
P. 4 Back
15. Shoeing a Government Mule GSP phot postcard 3.5x5.2516. 12 year old Mexican boy captured with Villa's troops GSP photo postcard 5.4x3.3
17. Soldier standing in front of wood structure GSP photo postcard 5.5x3.3
P. 5 front
18. Mexican who looked like Villa $55.00 gold was taken from his pockets, Columbus NM. GSP photo postcard 3.5x5.3
19. In the Hills near Marfa T GSP photo postcard 3.3x5.3 lower right corner missing 1/1.5 diagonal
P. 5 back
20. Returning to Camp after a hard days work GSP photo postcard 3.5x5.5
21. 3 soldiers standing aim rifles 2 soldiers tent, wood building, GSP 3.3x5.3
P. 6
22. Davis Mountain GSP photo postcard 3.5x5.5
23. A beautiful Scene East of Marfa, Tx GSP photo postcard 3.5x5.5P. 6 back
24. A typical adobe Home, Marfa Tex GSP photo postcard3.5x5.5
25. 13th Cav. Officers Residence Attacked by Villa Bandits during Columbus Raid GSP photo postcard Lamb
P. 7 Front
26. Dead Negroe bound and shot through head by Mex found on line of retreat, Columbus, NM GSP photo postcard 5.5x3.5 photo by Lamb
27.2 Soldiers one with cap other with hat GSP photo postcard 5.5x3.5 same photo as p. 9 front 34 below
28. Dress Parade Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md GSP photo postcard 3.75x5.5 written address USS Savannah p/0 p in New york, NY emulsion missing tears
P. 7 back
29. Donkeys loaded with wood in desert hills GSP photo postcard 3.4x5.3
30. Soldier on horse GSP photo postcard, 5.5x3.3, 0.2x0.2 tear left
31. Burning bodies Willa Bandits at Columbus NM GSP photo postcard 5.5x3.4 #26 photo by Lamb
P. 8 front
32. Color postcard, Dam at Elephant Butte on Rio Grande near El Paso, Texas litho 3.5x5.5
33. A view of Lopez [dead] Columbus, NM 5.3x3.3 GSP photo postcard 13 photo by Lamb writing is backwards
34. 2 Soldiers one with cap other with hat GSP photo postcard 5.5x3.5 same photo as p. 9 front 27 above
P. 8 back
35. 2 Soldiers in front of vehicle, truck GSP photo postcard 3.5x5.4" small stain lower right
36. Remains of Lopez where U.S. soldiers want him, Columbus, NM GSP photo postcard 3.5x5.5 photo by Lamb 19
P. 9 front
37.U.S. Troops Loading at Columbus, NM GSP photo postcard 3.5x5.3 photo by Lamb
38. Bullet Holes made by Mexicans, Columbus, NM GSP photo postcard. P. 9 back
39. Loading [Troops] of 13th U.S. Cav near Columbus, NM GSP photo postcard3.4x5.3 photo by Lamb
40. __??? at Columbus, NM [2 soldiers holding gun] GSP photo postcard 3.4x5.5 photo by Lamb
P. 10 front
41. C. Co 20th Inft playing Keno, Columbus NM GSP photo postcard photo by Lamb 22
.42. Over 40 soldiers pose by rocks in desert GSP photo postcard 3.4x5.3P. 10 back
43. Doctor dressing man's wounded arm GSP photo postcard 3.4x5.5
44. Sheriff J.A, Walton [with 4 Mexican prisoners] Lt. Colonel Natevedad Alvarez and three of his bandits who were captured in the Glen Springs & Boquillas Raid GSP photo postcard 3.5x5.4 by Art Craft Studio, Marfa Tex
P. 11 Front
45. 4 soldiers playing baseball, sliding into a base GSP 4.5x6.4 lower left corner torn off 2x0.8 diagonal
46. Line of Troops march in desert scrub GSP 4.5x6.6 lower left corner torn off 2x0.7 diagonal
P. 11 back
47. In Rear of 13th Cav Camp Govs Troopers charged 400 Mex up that hill in the face of Machine Gun Fire, Columbus, NM GSP photo postcard 3.5x5.4
48. Group of Soldier sin front of Tree Same As 8 above GSP photo postcard 3.4x5.3
P. 12 front
49. CO K 4th Tex Inftry, Alpine Texas, Soldiers Kneeling in front of Trees, GSP Photo Postcard 3.5x5.3 same as 7 above
50. Burned by Villa, Columbus NM GSP photo postcard 5.3x3.3
P. 12 back 3 "My Neighbor Said" advice columns5 pages of family pictures newspaper articles, obituary service.
Envelope (Int News Serv stationary envelope of letters
3 letters on Int News Ser stationary
1. James P. Ferguson to his mother: Alpine Tesas, Oct. 28, 1916, described camp, life, note "Company A had a fight with a bunch of Mexicans yesterday and killed about 50" more about camp life 3 pages
2. James P. Ferguson to his mother: Alpine Texas, Nov. 1, 1916, Halloween party and laze around fort..2 pages
3. James P Ferguson to his mother, Alpine Texas, Nov.. 5, 1916 2 pages camp life
4th letter to Mr & Mrs Tobt Ferguson from sister Heatte [sic] Aug 22, 1922 3 pages family news deaths etc. War, militaria, Americana, memorabilia.

Very Good pages are loose with worn edges prints are in generally very good physical condition showing mild wear from being old, see digital images, with a small number missing corners, with abrasions or small amounts of emulsion loss.