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La caballería era el arma más temible del ejército mexicano.

A estas tropas por el color de sus camisas y quepíes se les llamaba "amarillos", eran fieles al ejército federal de Don Porfirio. Dr. Roberto Duarte

The stream of men from left to right flows from south to north, El Paso is behint the bull ring. The pipes and smoke plume should be El Paso smelter.

Found in El Paso Herald issue February 22, 1911 (The Library of Congress, Chronicling America) an article that mentions the soldiers where moved from Juárez bullring to another quarter behind the customs house. Is it possible the Call Nr. locates this picture on February 1911? Dr. Roberto Duarte

Dr. Duarte: While it is quite possible this photograph does date from February 1911, we cannot be positive, as the Bain News Service did not always number their negatives chronologically. Often that is the case in the collection, but not all the time. This is a very interesting piece of information you have found, though, and may be an explanation for the activity shown. We can add more details than are currently present in the record. Thank you!

Hi guys, it's not Oroszco but Orozco. Pascual Orozco.

We'll correct the identification in the source data and reload the description. Thanks for the information!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called México de Mis Amores. "CONCURSO COLORES DE MEXICO", and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Esta fotografía representa a...

México de Mis Amores
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En esta foto se ve a la extrema derecha a Don Francisco I. Madero, detrás de él Rodolfo Fierro, marcado con X Pascual Orozco (hijo), y a su derecha Abraham González; arriba del copyright Bain aparece Pascual Orozco (padre). El resto aun no los identifico. Al triunfo de la Revolución Maderista, Pascual Orozco ambicionaba la gubernatura de Chihuahua, que la obtuvo Abraham González, o la Secretaría de Guerra que se le otorgó a Venustiano Carranza. Al extremo derecho de la foto se aprecia el número 2324-3, de acuerdo a éste número, correspondería a algún dia de marzo de 1911, antes de la Toma de Ciudad Juárez. Dr. Roberto Duarte

Quiero comentar como mexicano y patriota, que en esta imagen las personas que aparecen en ella... No son insurectos ni nada por el estilo, son mexicanos que lucharon por la libertad de su raza y de sus ideales, los cuales siempre fueron contra la marginacion y el desprecio de los mismos mexicanos, por unos cuanto extranjeros ricos acaparadores, los cuales apoyados por unos cuanto malos, mexicanos querian tener sumido en el hoyo de la pobresa y la ignorancia al pueblo mexicano... Por lo tanto son mexicanos valientes y valiosos, y es inadmicible que estas fotografias esten en manos extranjeras y no en los museos o en poder de mexicanos.

strange that these photos taken in Mexico have "south america" as a tag, when Mexico is part of North America. Shouldn't this be corrected?

Besides this picture is close by call number to www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ggbain.09390/ the man marked with an x as white recruit seems most likely to be the second (from left to right) in this picture; and the first one could be the man standing backwards in that picure. Would it be possible?

jerodamor: An interesting possiblity, but I can't say there is enough certainty to make a change to the record. Thanks for the observation!

Mike Slichenmyer: Good point about the tag! We leave the ability to tag open to all Flickr users, and do find there are sometimes edits needed. There are several photos of Mexico which appear to have been incorrectly tagged as South America, so I'll see about having those corrected. Thanks for your comment!