Pancho Villa & John J. Pershing

Maria Luz Corral De Villa. Widow of José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, a.ka. "Pancho Villa". A pair of photos 8" x 10" ea., both portraits of Pancho Villa on horseback signed and inscribed by her ("Luz C Villa") in the lower right. Signatures and inscriptions faded on both photographs, creases, and some losses, but overall good condition. Both photos have been affixed to mats. Offered together with the original transmittal envelope addressed in de Villa's hand and bearing her signature at the top: "Luz C de Villa".

Also included in this lot is a splendid signed photograph of Gen. John J. Pershing, inscribed to a fellow hero…in the cream lower margin, “To Col. Frank C. Burnett / With cordial regards....” Evocative warm sepia, full standing pose, 7.25" x 10.5", imprinted “Signal Corps / USA.” ”John” light, his quill reflowing for balance, uniform edge toning, else about fine, and superbly suited for display. Infantry Col. Burnett “commanded, with distinction, a battalion of the first American regiment to occupy trenches in France, and participated in the repulses of the first raid made by the enemy upon American troops...”--

Pancho Villa (June 5, 1878 - July 20, 1923) was a Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader who fought against the regimes of both Porfirio Díaz and Victoriano Huerta and after 1914 engaged in civil war and banditry.

John J. Pershing (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948), nicknamed "Black Jack", was a senior American United States Army officer. With a storied career, from the last of the Sioux uprisings to San Juan Hill and Pancho Villa, Pershing’s life changed when his wife and three of his four children perished in a Presidio of San Francisco fire. The only General in American history to be promoted within his lifetime to “General of the Armies,” Pershing had sought to continue World War I and occupy Germany, to permanently destroy its militarism.

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