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[Mexican Women - Cooking]

Postcard photograph image of Mexican women. According to the creator of this postcard, the Mexican women are preparing food and cooking. A young girl is also part of this group of women. On the back of the postcard: '(One of many groups of women who follow up the Mexican Army, preparing dinner. Note the pool of filth - the flies don't show.) Will write soon. Very busy just now. Soldiers pay day tomorrow. Hope you are ok, I am. Yours, Walter.' This postcard was mailed to Mrs. Henry Horne, Lauder Hill, Hallowell Maine. This postcard is post marked El Paso, Texas, September 2, 1912. This postcard has a 1 cent green Benjamin Franklin stamp on it. The Benjamin Franklin stamp is ca. 1909. There is advertising on the wall behind the women.
Date: September 2, 1912
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Post Office Construction Site Looking South West]

Photograph of a post office construction site. There are some long stone pieces on the ground near workers by the post office windows. Lights are supported up in the air by safety lines. Other buildings surround the post office.
Date: October 2, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Post Office Construction Site Looking North West]

Photograph of a construction site for a post office with tall ionic columns and window slots. Cranes are inside the walls, and buildings are in the background. "United States Post Office" is engraved above the columns.
Date: April 2, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Post Office Lobby, Looking Westward]

Photograph of the United States Post Office in El Paso, Texas. It has two large archways with decorated metal grates inbetween them. The archways have two grated doors right next to them. The floor has a square pattern, and two small counters are equally spaced on the floor in front of the archways.
Date: July 2, 1919
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Post Office Workroom Looking East]

Photograph of a room in the El Paso post office. It has a large archway in the middle of the room with a decorated metal grate in the middle of it. It has support columns on the left and right sides of the room, with white walls and wooden floors.
Date: June 2, 1919
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Construction Site Looking North]

Photograph of a construction site. A foundation has construction supplies, and buildings are in the background.
Date: November 2, 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Construction Site Looking South]

Photograph of a construction site where workers are building a foundation. Horses are standing in front of a cart, and buildings are in the background.
Date: November 2, 1917
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Post Office Construction Site Looking South East]

Photograph of a post office construction site. There are horses with wagons behind them next to men digging from a dirt pile. There are buildings visible behind the post office.
Date: November 2, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Post Office Looking North]

Photograph of a post office with tall ionic columns in front of the entrance, and "United States Post Office" engraved above the columns. It has some minor work being done on the front. There is a landline pole on each post office corner, and a few other buildings.
Date: December 2, 1918
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fly-By]

Photograph of seven DH-4 (De Havilland) airplanes flying over Fort Bliss, Texas. Below the planes, soldiers can be seen walking, riding, and standing as they watch the planes fly by. Military buildings and vehicles are seen scattered below on the ground. The Franklin Mountains are in the background. Information on the back of the photo states that the "Fly-By" over Fort Bliss was done in honor of General John J. Pershing's return to Fort Bliss after his service in World War I. The photo was taken from below the Officer's Club on February 2, 1920.
Date: February 2, 1920
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[General Pershing and Staff]

Photograph of General John J. Pershing sitting atop a white horse and looking toward his five mounted staff members. Soldiers are visible in the background. The reverse side of the photograph states that Pershing was reviewing troops in El Paso, Texas.
Date: February 2, 1920
Creator: Rhineheimer, Oscar
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Planes at Air Service Camp]

Photograph of a row of a row of 1st Surveillance Group biplanes at the Air Service Camp in El Paso, Texas. Groups of men in military uniforms are standing around each plane.
Date: February 2, 1920
Creator: Rhineheimer, Oscar
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Artillery Salute for General Pershing]

Photograph of soldiers firing wheeled artillery on an earthen field. Plumes of smoke rise behind the guns and partially obscure distant mountains. A caption on the reverse side of the photo indicates that the firing was a salute to visiting General John J. Pershing.
Date: February 2, 1920
Creator: Rhineheimer, Oscar
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History