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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_of_Guadalupe

query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=990DE7DE1031E2... First paragraph from the article... MADERO'S CAMP, Bustillo's Estate, near Chihuahua, April 8.--Madero, with his 8,000 insurrectos, broke camp to-day and started toward the Casas Grandes region, which is evidently a move in accordance with newly laid plans to abandon whatever method of attack he had projected from his camp here. However, the likelihood of a battle within the next few days is as strong as ever, and it is believed that the Federals will be the aggressors. ***Obviously, it was Madero's stronghold for attack, but for some reaason, he had a change of plans.

La Hacienda de Bustillo era parte del latifundio de los hermanos Zuluoaga (Pedro y Carlos, hermanos a su vez de Leonardo quien era dueño del latifundio de la Hacienda de San Lorenzo de la Laguna [al suroeste del estado de Coahuila], donde estaba incluida al poniente, el Rancho del Torreón [donde se ubica actualmente la Ciudad de Torreón, Coahuila]). Don Alberto Madero era yerno de don Carlos, a su vez administrador de la Hacienda de Bustillo; y tio de Don Francisco Ignacio Madero a quien puso a su disposición la hacienda para sus actividades políticas Dr. Roberto Duarte

Thank you all for your additional information about this image and the Bustillo estate. We will add some of it to the catalog record when we update the database.

Madero desde Encinillas se lanzó sobre San Adrés, colocandose finalmente a unos 60 kilómetros al norte de la Ciudad de Chihuahua el 26 de marzo de 1911. Tres dias después (29 de marzo) Don Francisco Ignacio estableció su cuartel general en la Hacienda de Bustillo donde se le incorporó Francisco Villa con una fuerza de 600 hombres (Wikipedia, Revolución Mexicana, Toma de Ciudad Juárez) Dr. Roberto Duarte

The woman on the RIGHT* can't be Susan B. Anthony--she might be another Miss Anthony, but Susan B. died in 1906. *fixed on advice of Wystan.

That's Anna Shaw on the left . . . .

Whoops, yes, of course. I'm never good at left-right (don't give me driving directions or ballroom dance classes, it's hopeless). Should have double-checked myself. The woman on the left certainly is Anna Shaw! Now who's on the right?

Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and the first ordained female Methodist minister in the United States. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Shaw Florence Jaffray "Daisy" Harriman (July 21, 1870 – August 31, 1967) was an American socialite, suffragist, social reformer, organizer, and later, a courageous diplomat. “She led one of the suffrage parades down Fifth Avenue, worked on campaigns on child labor and safe milk and, as minister to Norway in World War II, organized evacuation efforts while hiding in a forest from the Nazi invasion.” In her ninety-second year, U.S. President John F. Kennedy honored her by awarding her the first “Citation of Merit for Distinguished Service.” She often found herself in the middle of historic events. As she stated, “I think nobody can deny that I have always had through sheer luck. . . a box seat at the America of my times.” Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Jaffray_Harriman The photographer was fooled by the name on the banner she was carrying. Does everyone agree it is Harriman? I recognize her as Harriman, but I can be wrong.

Thanks. Next time we update the record we'll change the title to give the names of the persons in the picture.

Balloon was used to lift radio antenna into the air. Could be for many different uses.

There's a numbered white container at the center of the frame with a very odd shape. I'm not really seeing anything electrical here.

It may be an early sort of weather balloon.

In the DC area, is there any notable brick building with crenelations around the roof, like you can see behind the men? I almost thought it could be the Smithsonian "castle"; but from photos I could find, it didn't really match.

Oh got it—this must be the rooftop of the United States Weather Bureau Building; and there's another balloon release in a labeled Harris & Ewing photo where the same parapet details are visible.