Gen. Obregon, El Paso – Antique Print
(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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A window into the past: Gen. Obregon, El Paso, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gen. Obregon, El Paso
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Gen. Álvaro Obregón, a Constitutionalist commander whose forces helped defeat rival factions during the Mexican Revolution, is named as the subject, with the picture taken in El Paso. The border city sat across from Ciudad Juárez, and during the fighting of the 1910s it was a busy crossing point for officers, journalists, arms buyers and refugees, so American photographers often went there to record men shaping events across the river. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that distributed news photographs widely, made the glass negative, and the title comes from its original caption data, which has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,804 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-24050 |
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