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Oh, when I read photo title I thought it referred to Francisco I. Madero, but no, it's his brother, Raúl, who join to Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces. He died at 94, in 1982. I didn't know, but was interesting investigate that!

Bystanders in the background of the photo have all been retouched out of existence, except for a lad (and another spectator) whose eyes poke up just behind Pancho Villa's left shoulder. _____________________________________________________ PANCHO VILLA'S ARRANGEMENT WITH MUTUAL FILM CO.: "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.)

Rodolfo Fierro is correctly identified on this Bain/LOC/Mutal photo: Other Bain/LOC photos of Pancho Villa, inscribed with a Mutual Film Corporation copyright notice: And Mrs. Pancho Villa: More Mexican Revolution coverage by the Mutual Film Co.:

Rodolfo Fierro is not plucking a feather. He´s going to tie a knife in cock´s ankle. During the fight the cocks keep kicking each other untill one of them gets killed. Raúl Madero seems holding money in his hand, probably betting money. Most of the time the fight is "el giro" (white) against "el colorado" (red). Dr. Roberto Duarte

In Texas A&M University Library, Wheelan Collection of the Mexican Revolution we can find similar or secuential versions of this picture, click on hdl.handle.net/1969.1/778 Dr. Roberto Duarte Plastic Surgeon

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A wonderful capture of times past. And look - more horses (and a donkey, bottom left) than motor vehicles!

What's interesting in this excellent shot is the police or security presence? There are four outriders around that carriage, two more are going out of focus at the bottom and there are two an RIC?Policemen standing and walking between the tramrails. Some dignitary on his way someplace?

Swordscookie Must have been! Well spotted...

Look at the variety of modes of transport on display? Hansom cabs on the right with the hoods, soldiers/policemen on horseback, dignitary in landau, motor car in the distance, tram on the left, donkey and cart further left foreground, horse and drey left foreground, jaunting car on the left parked, and shanks mare all over the place!!!

love the layout