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Chihuahua Mexico Photograph Album

1906 to 1909
MS 238
Collection Guide

One album with over 600 small black-and-white photographs. Many were taken in Mexico, chiefly in Chihuahua, in 1906. Subjects include mines, railroads, Tarahumara Indians and other local inhabitants, landscapes, street scenes, and mission churches.

Included materials:
Photographs
Subject Area:
Mexico
Mining
Mexican
Collection Area:
Borderlands

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