Mexican revolution

The Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 - a major sociopolitical upheaval rivaling that in Russia from 1917-23 and later the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. [jamezorlando]

Probably the first American serial killer was none other than Felipe Espinosa and his younger brother Vivian.

Take your time with these colorized photos of the forgotten past, there's a lot to take in. The nuance and depth that comes with the colorization of a formerly black and white photo makes you feel like you're in the moment, not just looking at it through a screen...This hand picked collection of rarely seen photos from the past will 100 percent blow your mind.

The Mexican Revolution (1910-20) broke out at the dawn of modern photography and was one of the first conflicts to be documented by photographers.

Pocos procesos históricos son capaces de aglutinar una aureola tan mítica y favorable como el ansia de libertad que prendió mecha a la Revolución Mexicana.

"the soldaderas crop up everywhere in the photographs -anonymous multitudes, superfluous, apparently not much than backdrop, merely there to swell the ranks, yet whitout them soldiers would no have eaten slept or fougth. The horses were treated better than the women" "Las soldaderas Women of the mexican revolution" Elena Poniatowska

“Fotografía del 12 de junio de 1911 en el antiguo Hotel Moctezuma de Cuernavaca ubicado en #6 de la calle Acapulco (hoy Matamoros) en su cruce con San Miguel (hoyDegollado). El caudillo lleva su traje de gala, sombrero de ala ancha, fusil y sable. El Hotel fue construido en 1889.”

Las Adelitas - Women of the Mexican Revolution

c1913 Mexican Revolution in Matamoros photo postcard with boy soldier by P.C. Shockey of Harlingen, Texas.

Charles Sheeler, Rolling-Power, 1939 Jack Delano, December 1942. "Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the Chic...