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The New York Sun., June 19, 1916, page 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1916-06-19/ed-... is almost entirely about the call for National Guards from all states to mobilize for possible service on the Mexican border and some details for New York National Guard. The entire NY guard was "expected at Camp Whitman as soon after noon today as possible." The evening world., June 27, 1916, Final Edition, page 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1916-06-27/ed-... reports that the 7th regiment was one of the first to head for the Mexican border, starting its rail trip on June 27, 1916 The evening world., June 30, 1916, Final Edition, page 1, column 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1916-06-30/ed-... indicates that NY guard troops would be based along a ten-mile stretch of the border between Harlingen and Sam Fordyce, Texas (about 30 miles west of Brownsville). New-York tribune., July 01, 1916, Page 2, col 6 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1916-07-01/ed-... indicates that details of troop movement were to be censored. The Sun and New York press., July 07, 1916, Page 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030430/1916-07-07/ed-... has a picture captioned "The Seventh gets a real rest on Texas soil." Given that this picture and a neighboring one seem to be of making camp, the date would likely be early July, 1916.

The Sun and New York press, July 05, 1916, Page 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030430/1916-07-05/ed-... suggests arrival by July 2 (Sunday).

Also in the Robert Runyon collection. There this is identified as the 14th NY Infantry

Interesting that the Runyon original is not blurry. Must have been a bad copy job by Bain. According to this regimental history of the 14th: "Mexican Border Service Their next call to duty was the Mexican Border Service on July 19, 1916. Their order was a ten day hike across the wastes of Hidalgo County, Texas. The conditions were harsh and often consisted of temperatures reaching 120 degrees with no shade to block them from the sun. In September they were ordered home and shortly thereafter mustered out of service." dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/numbered/14thReg.htm

I don't think one is any more or less blurry than the other, but the increased contrast of all the Bain pix relative to the Runyon originals washes out a lot of detail. I don't know whether that's an unavoidable side effect of copying in the early 20th century or if it was done on purpose to make newspaper friendly halftones easier.

Maneuvers of the National Guard of New York held at Camp Whitman, Fishkill Plains, New York, July 17th August 1st , 1915 .

Thanks for connecting this and related photos up with the probable event. Although I haven't yet found this specific photo reproduced, I did find testimony that pictures of the proceedings were considered newsworthy in a New-York Tribune advertisement (July 23, 1915), seen via the historic American newspapers site, Chronicling America: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1915-07-23/ed-... (lower right). We'll add information when we next update the description.

See here: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/universite_caen/15244298981/] and here: