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well, we have a lot in common, I have no idea either.. and a Happy New Year to you and your colleagues

Michael Kelly Many Happy Returns!

Is it a mill or why do they have thier own river?

Any person found committing a nuisance here will be prosecuted according to law. Any person prosecuting to conviction a party guilty of committing this nuisance will receive ten shillings reward. O'Connell Hackett. Let's see where O'Connell Hackett lived. Ho for the census archives!

Henry O’Connell Hackett was mayor of Clonmel for a time. Seems likely this was in Tipp somewhere...

Francisco "Pancho" Villa (June 5, 1877 – July 23, 1923), famed Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader.

A cropped version of this image is used on the cover of A & E's Biography DVD, Pancho Villa: Outlaw Hero.

Notice that he signed this like a promotional picture. Not surprising, since he was quite media-savvy for his day, having starred as himself in a movie which helped propel him into legend.

Même tenue que la photo avec Braniff, Orozco et Garibaldi. Peut-être prise devant le poste de douane à Juarez après que Orozco y ait déplacé le siège du gouvernement provisoire. mai 1911 ...... même si cette photo est attribué à "Topical Press Agency" et datée : "Monday December 1st, 1913" sur site JAMD.com (search pancho villa).

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Columbus, New Mexico USA, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Mexico Magico, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

También conocido como El Centauro del Norte.

Looks like the caption might say "entraining," which I'd guess to be a fancy way of saying "getting on a train." They certainly don't look like they're entertaining, or being entertained. (Detained, maybe.)

PANCHO VILLA'S ARRANGEMENT WITH THE MUTUAL FILM COMPANY: "In January 1914, Pancho Villa became Hollywood's first Mexican superstar when he signed an exclusive contract with the Mutual Film Corporation. In return for $25,000, he agreed to keep other film companies from his battlefield, to fight in daylight whenever possible, and to reconstruct battles if the footage needed reshooting. "Now the subject of an HBO film starring Antonio Banderas (And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself), Villa is one of the main protagonists in Margarita de Orellana's vivid account of the American movie industry's fascination with the events of the Mexican Revolution. "Through memoir accounts, newspaper reports, and analysis of the films themselves, "Filming Pancho" reveals much about how Mexico was constructed in the American imagination and how the film images reinforced and justified American expansionism and racial and social prejudices." --From a description, on Amazon, of a documentary movie of Hollywood's treatment of the Mexican Revolution. (The DVD is available for purchase from various Amazon vendors.)

More Bain/LOC photos from the period of the Mexican Revolution:

El 22 de marzo la División del Norte llegó a Estación Noé y por la tarde a El Vergel (al norte de Gómez Palacio) y el 23 estaban en las goteras de Gómez Palacio teniendo como eje la vía férrea, a la izquierda la casa redonda (oriente), al centro (sur) la ciudad y a la derecha el Cerro de la Pila (poniente). Así se inicia el sitio de la plaza. Dr. Roberto Duarte

Thank you Dr. Roberto Duarte for the information about the possible location of this photograph. As you said, based on the location of Villa's troops on the date written on the image (March 23, 1914), it does appear the photo could have been taken in Gómez Palacio. We will add "probably Gómez Palacio" to the image description when we update.