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Ambulance by Building with Armed Men

Description: Copy negative of an unidentified group of men with guns and ammunition sitting in an ambulance wagon. There is also a group of men standing in front of the ambulance; all of the men are facing the background. The ambulance has a medical cross emblem and text partially visible on the side that says "Servi... Sanitario ...itar." In the background, there is a building identified as "Presidencia Municipal," and has text bearing that name on the front of it.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band at Fountain

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band in uniform posing at a fountain in Mexico. There are children playing on the left and children and adults standing on the right, and a gazebo, trees, and buildings in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band in Uniform

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band trip to Mexico. The band is preparing to perform. They are surrounded by locals, mostly children, waiting for the performance to begin. The McMurry College truck is in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band in Uniform

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band standing on a sidewalk outside a shop in Black Rocks, Mexico. One student is wearing a sombrero and having his shoes shined by a boy. Another is balancing baskets on his head.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band in Uniform

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band in Mexico sitting in a building and drinking a beverage out of bottles. Most sit at tables but some are standing. They are in band uniforms.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band Students at Bull Ring

Description: Copy negative of students in the McMurry Band at a bullfighting ring in Villa Acuña, Mexico. Villa Acuña was Del Rio's twin city across the Rio Grande River in Mexico and is now known as Ciudad Acuña. Most of the group members are in uniform and they are standing at the barrera, the fence encircling the bull ring, looking into the bullfighting ring, or anillo. A few band members stand behind the callejon, a narrow passageway between the barrera and the spectators' stands.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Band with Dancers

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band trip to Mexico. Approximately nineteen band members watch two local children folkdance. This scene takes place in Ciudad Valles, a home of the Huastecan indigenous people.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Banquet

Description: Copy negative of the McMurry Band trip to Mexico. Many people sit at a table. One person is eating and the others are engaged in conversation. There are three waiters standing in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Bullfighting

Description: Copy negative of a bullfighting scene. There is a man on a horse in an arena stabbing a bull and another man behind him. There are people sitting in the stands and advertisements on the arena fence.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Bullfighting

Description: Copy negative of two women bullfighters. They are both wearing bullfighting attire, including a hat, tights and both are holding bullfighting capes. Also there is hand writing on the picture that reads "Female Bull Fighters"
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Bullfighting

Description: Copy negative of two women bullfighters. They are both wearing bullfighting attire, including a hat, tights and both are holding bullfighting capes. Also there is hand writing on the picture that reads "Female Bull Fighters"
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Bullfighting #1

Description: Copy negative of a bullfighting scene. There are three matadors in the arena with the bull placing banderillas. There is a crowd in the stands watching.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Bullfighting #2

Description: Copy negative of a bullfighting scene. There are three matadors in the arena with the bull placing banderillas. There is a crowd in the stands watching.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Cabin Interiors

Description: Copy negative of two images. The top photograph shows two men seated at a table topped with a liquor bottle, glasses and a gun. One man is wearing a hat and gun holster and the other man has a cigar in his mouth. An animal hide hangs on the wall behind them and there is a sleeping cot through the open doorway. The bottom photograph shows several hats, an animal hide, a saddle and a gun hanging on a wall.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Dead Man on Street

Description: Copy negative of an unidentified dead man laying on a street, his face is covered. In the background, there is an unidentified group of people walking beside a wooden fence, consisting of three men and two nuns. Far in the background, there are trees, buildings, and other people walking.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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