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A web archive of a project website for Chavalxs, a collaborative community-based project focused on creating spaces of reflection through photography to confront narratives about young people from rural areas near the Mexico-US border that have been…

Oral history conducted by Ellen Lomonaco with Charles Jackson in Tucson, Arizona on February 27, 1984. Mr. Jackson was on the staff of Admiral Kimmel at Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, HI by Japan on December 7, 1941. He was…

Charcoal carried into market in packages made of grass. Wood is very scarce - and a great article in all this market. A cutlass in the back just got a franc matabish [?] from me. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 17, 1920]

... a last attempt at photo of this chaparral. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 29, 1920]

As with many borders, conflicts arise. Ownership of the El Chamizal tract, consisting of 630 acres of disputed land between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, remained in dispute for nearly a hundred years. The issue involved the interpretation of how fast…

En route Brown has a blowout. [Shantz travel journal, May 6, 1920]

This is the actual champagne bottle that was used to christen the USS Arizona by Esther Ross. The bottle is encased in a silver lattice shroud enclosed in a copper mesh. It is still attached to the plaited red white and blue ribbons used to swing the…