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This picture was taken in front of the Old Mission [Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de lo Mansos. See your www.flickr.com/photos/smu_cul_digitalcollections/8245873562/ ], Ciudad Juárez (formerly Paso del Norte), Chihuahua, México, The camera is most likely facing east. The scene takes place in what today is Avenida 16 de Septiembre. Wonder if the cargo is guayule (pronounce, wayoole) bushes [Parthenium argentatum gray]. A Source of Natural Rubber. A Rubber-plant of the Chihuahuan Desert. es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenium_argentatum In my home town (Torreón, Coahuila) it was stablished one of the first factories of the Continental Rubber, Co. at the end of XIX century. It yielded tires and other products of natural rubber. The bush was harvested in the surrounding semidesertic land. I've seen it and is very simmilar to that shown in the cargo. If somebody knows otherwise, please reply. Roberto Duarte Torreón, Coahuila.

No Wikipedia article in English, but: ""Gabriella Besanzoni (1890-1962) fue una famosa contralto italiana." es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriella_Besanzoni "The artist also appeared at the Met opposite Caruso in the season 1919/20, but she was not successful." www.cantabile-subito.de/Mezzo-Sopranos/Besanzoni__Gabriel... forgottenoperasingers.blogspot.com/2016/07/gabriella-besa... "Gabriella Besanzoni (1888—1962) Besanzoni, Gabriella (1888 - 1962), mezzo-soprano, soprano (b Rome, 20 Sept 1888; d Rome, 8 July 1962). Italian mezzo-soprano. She studied in Rome, making her début (as a soprano) as Adalgisa at Viterbo in 1911. After further study she became a mezzo-soprano, singing Ulrica in Rome and appearing throughout Italy. She first sang at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, in 1918, returning there frequently; she also visited Rio de Janeiro and, in 1919, Mexico City, where she sang Ulrica, Delilah, Nancy (Martha), Carmen and Amneris, all with Dnrico Caruso as principal tenor. Engaged at the Metropolitan (1919–20), she made her début as Amneris, then sang Isabella in the Metropolitan première of L’italiana in Algeri, as well as Delilah and Preziosilla (Forza del destino) with Caruso. Besanzoni's repertory also included Laura (La Gioconda) and Santuzza, which she sang at performances of Cavalleria rusticana conducted by Pietro Mascagni himself. At La Scala (1923–4) she sang C. W. Gluck's Orpheus under Toscanini, and also appeared as Mignon and Carmen, the role of her farewell in 1939 at the Baths of Caracalla, Rome. Her voice was rich, powerful, smoothly produced and notably flexible. From The Grove Book of Opera Singers " oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095...

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Presumably should be "Oroszco". See flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2868000539/

Date on negative is March 6, 1912.

Thanks! We'll make the correction in the source data and reload the description.

I agree about the name but is bad writing. The right way to write this last name is "Orozco". Maybe an american or a poor educated man write this in the original's negative. Alejandro Joya from México

Correct spelling is "Orozco", for General Pascual Orozco, one of Pancho Villa's closests. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascual_Orozco I work in that building in the left, which today is a museum. Actually, my office is the best-seen window in the pic.