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Filling the trench with dead Federals - Mexican Revolution – Antique Print

Filling the trench with dead Federals - Mexican Revolution, c1913. — historic photograph
Filling the trench with dead Federals - Mexican Revolution, c1913.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few photographs from the Mexican Revolution show its violence as bluntly as this one, whose title describes a trench being filled with dead Federal soldiers. "Federals" refers to the army loyal to Victoriano Huerta's government, which fought revolutionary forces across northern and central Mexico during 1913 and 1914. The details come from an unverified caption card, and battlefield photographs of this period were sometimes arranged for the camera, so the scene may not match its title exactly. Even so, it offers a grim glimpse of how the war's dead were handled in the field.

Created / publishedc1913.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by W.H. Horne. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160240

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