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It should say Paso del Norte (NOT Paseo), today is Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. But it is neither El Paso, Texas nor Paso del Norte, Chihuahua. This is Hércules Cotton Mill in Querétaro, Querétaro, México. Camera facing north-east Check a picture in The Library of Congress Digital Collections. www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994024281/PP/. and in lascronicasdelviejo.blogspot.mx/2011/06/rico-pasado.html you can see how the place looks today. Best Wishes from Torreón, Coahuila, México Roberto Duarte Plastic Surgeon.

Techos de teja (pronounce teha) (roofing-tile [baked clay, ceramic or pottery tiles]). En el Castellano arcaico, la X tenia el sonido de la J, de ahí la pronunciación aun hoy de Texas [tehas], México [méhico], Bexar [behar). Otro posible origen de la palabra "texas" es el del árbol texa o texo (del latín "taxus") [tejo, pronounce teho], confundido por los conquistadores por el muy común en esa región "honey mesquite" (Prosopis glandulosa), por lo que es mas probable que este es el que, por toponimia, le haya dado el nombre a la Provincia Novohispana de Coahuila y Texas. Cuando la provincia recibió el nombre de Texas upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Provincias_Yn... no abundaban casas habitación (dwellings) de los aborígenes techadas con teja (roof-tiled). En Nueva España, se llamó Nueva Extremadura a una región ubicada al norte del virreinato, que comprendía los actuales estados mexicanos de Coahuila de Zaragoza y Nuevo León y parte del estado de Texas, Estados Unidos, también conocida entonces como provincia de Coahuila. Durante su existencia, la capital fue Santiago de la Monclova, actualmente Monclova, Coahuila, y mas al septentrión, la Provincia de Texas (entre el Río Arkansas y el Río Nueces) es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueva_Extremadura Es muy posible que el nombre del Barrio TeXas [tehas] (Roofing-tile Neighborhood) se haya prestado a confundir esta fotografía con algún sitio de El Paso, Texas, U. S. A. Sitio que quedó aclarado con mi comentario anterior y las notas agregadas a la foto.

I wonder if these were polygamists going to Mexico. Would love to know the story behind this picture.

No, these Mormons were refugees from Mexico. In addition to numerous Mexican refugees, 2,000 Mormons sought refuge in El Paso in 1912, going there from Mexico to escape dangers in the border areas during the Mexican revolution that started in 1911. www.elpasotexas.gov/history/mexicanrevolution/history.asp

Thanks that was interesting. Can't imagine living in that heat with those clothes on!

Some of my family could be in that picture. I have a biography of my great-grandparents who abandoned their homes in Mexico and became refugees from the Mexican revolution. Here's a picture with my grandfather as a teenager before they had to leave Mexico. It's probably within a year or so of when they left.

Actually looked this up after doing some wikipedia to see if it was true that Romney's dad was one of them that fled with his family (dad/mom) after they left the U.S. due to polygamy laws. Interesting to know that Bain News actually was the owner of this.

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.