Describes raw materials used in telephone manufacturing. The map shows a location of Queretaro in Mexico. Workers collect molten silver pouring from a huge bowl at a smelter. Silver ore is crushed in a huge stone crusher. Workers load ore bags on their backs. Workers stack slabs of silver.
A horned or hammerhead shark caught in Veracruz City, Mexico. Fishermen catch the 2500 pound shark after a struggle of four hours. Fishermen in boat and in water bring the shark ashore. The hammerhead shark trapped in the net. Fishermen observe its eye and sharp teeth. Two fishermen stand near the suspended shark as one holds its tail.
United States punitive expedition against Pancho Villa in Chihuahua, Mexico. Pancho Villa and some of his men standing and posing for camera. New recruits of the Mexican Revolutionists, in regular civilian clothing, marching with Villa's forces heading for Pancho Villa's camp. Buildings along the sides of a street. Trees in the background. U.S. Army soldiers fire artillery. They guard the railroad track so that no more supplies can be brought to Villa. Smoke from firing. American Army punitive expedition soldiers fire a Hotchkiss m1909 Benét Mercié machine gun.
Beautifully decorated canoes and floats rowed across a stream at an annual procession in Xochimilco, Mexico. Men and women on board the boats. Men and women display Charro and China Poblana dresses.
Ancient Indian tribes perform dance rites in Oaxaca, Mexico. Men and women dressed in traditional attires carry goat and a hen as they perform a dance rite for President Abelardo L Rodriguez and his wife at a ceremony. Girls in traditional costumes perform a dance. Men wear headgears during a dance ritual.
Hurricane Janet hits Mexico. An officer loads relief material on a United States Navy HUP 2 helicopter. People on top of a Mexican hut submerged in water. A portion of the city of Tampico. The helicopter parked in a street as many Mexicans gather around it.