Item #3187 [Panoramic Photograph of Nogales, Arizona and Mexico, Captioned in the Negative:] Nogales, Mexico. La Plaza Inter. N. Bndry. Nogales, Ariz., U.S.A. Arizona, Photography.
[Panoramic Photograph of Nogales, Arizona and Mexico, Captioned in the Negative:] Nogales, Mexico. La Plaza Inter. N. Bndry. Nogales, Ariz., U.S.A.

[Panoramic Photograph of Nogales, Arizona and Mexico, Captioned in the Negative:] Nogales, Mexico. La Plaza Inter. N. Bndry. Nogales, Ariz., U.S.A.

Los Angeles: Jameson, [ca. 1916]. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 48.5 inches. Rolled. Light creasing and cracking at vertical edges; moderate soiling in upper right corner. A crisp image with good contrast, captioned in the negative. Very good. Item #3187

An excellent panoramic view of the two towns of Nogales, on the U.S-Mexico international boundary in Arizona and Sonora, taken by a Los Angeles photographer during the Mexican Revolution and Border War. The image was taken with a circuit-view camera and presents a wide-angle view of the Mexican and American settlements centered on the border, then just a road called International Street / Calle International, and the Plaza and City Hall of the Mexican Nogales. To the right of center are the two train stations directly adjacent to one another, straddling the border, with most of American Nogales further to the right and spreading into the background. The photograph was taken from a hill just on the Mexican side of the border, looking slightly northwest; captions in the negative identify the respective sides and the international boundary, as well as the plaza at the center of the image. None of the military buildup around Nogales, which resulted from a skirmish in 1915 and precipitated the Battle of Los Ambos Nogales in 1918, is visible, but another panorama taken by this photographer on the same excursion from a farther vantage point shows American soldiers and army tents that surrounded Nogales during the Border War. OCLC locates no individually catalogued examples of this photograph, though we locate a possible copy in the Southwestern photography archives of the University of Arizona.

Price: $1,750.00