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[Mexican Revolution] [Escobar Rebellion] [Glodell, Leroy?] [Almazán, General Juan Andreu]

Escobar Revolution - 1929: Northern Front Battles of Jimenez and Reforma [Cover Title] [Presentation Album with Sixty-Three Captioned Photographs of the Escobar Rebellion of 1929]

Mexico: 1929. First Edition. Album assembled later. Sixty-three photographs measuring 4 x 6 inches, housed in a limp green cardstock portfolio, with photographs loosely inserted into mylar-fronted portfolio pages with captions loosely laid in. The Escobar Rebellion was the final rebellion following the Mexican Civil War of 1920. General José.....

Price: $7,500.00

[Mexico] [Beef Industry] [Industrial Photography] [De Kay, John Wesley, aka the “Sausage King” of Mexico] Mexican National Packing Co., or Popo.

Some Photographs Taken at the Inauguration of the Uruapan Packing Plant, 18th January 1908.

Mexico: Mexican National Packing Co., 1908. First Edition. Oblong folio, cloth, 12 x 7 inches. With twenty-five silver gelatin photographs affixed to album leaves, each measuring 6 ¾ x 5 inches. John Wesley De Kay was an American businessman, playwright and eccentric socialite who, using funds amassed as a teenage.....

Price: $2,750.00
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[Mexico] [Pastry War] Hersant, M.

Signed manuscript report and chart from Hersant, Consul de France a San Luis Potosí and Tampico, to Comte de Rigny, Minister of the Navy.

Mexico: 1833. First Edition. Mexico: May 23, 1833. Letter and chart on watermarked single folio sheets, approx. 13 x 16-½ inches, letter: [3] pp.; chart: [2] pp.;. Rare first-hand documentation of the growing trade tensions that eventually led to the French-Mexican “Pastry War” of 1838. Consul Hersant’s gossipy report surveys.....

Price: $3,000.00

[Women] [Nursing] [Spanish-American War] [Congregation of American Sisters]

Photographic and Manuscript Archive of a Nurse in the Spanish-American War, Containing Over Ninety Photographs of Military Scenes in Cuba and Florida Surrounding the Conflict, c. 1899.

Most Cuba or Jacksonville: 1898-1900. Silver gelatin or albumen photographs, various sizes ranging from 3 x 3 to 6 x 8, most captioned to verso. With handwritten manuscript, four leaves, discussing various diseases. The Spanish-American War was the first war in which nurses formed their own dedicated units, as well.....

Price: $4,500.00