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Original handwritten manuscript written in Spanish by the Reverend Santiago Tafolla at the age of 71. Tafolla was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico under Mexican rule; traveled widely in the US; and served in the Texas Indian Wars and the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The memoir offers a rare look at 19th century Texas from the Tejano perspective and is the only known memoir of a Mexican American who served in the Civil War. Tafolla's great-granddaughters Carmen and Laura Tafolla transcribed, translated, and edited the memoir, which was ultimately published as A Life Crossing Borders: Memoir of a Mexican-American Civil War Soldier, by Arté Público Press in 2009. Item is fragile; pages 73-76 are illegible in places; written in pencil.

Original handwritten manuscript written in Spanish by the Reverend Santiago Tafolla at the age of 71. Tafolla was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico under Mexican rule; traveled widely in the US; and served in the Texas Indian Wars and the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The memoir offers a rare look at 19th century Texas from the Tejano perspective and is the only known memoir of a Mexican American who served in the Civil War. Tafolla's great-granddaughters Carmen and Laura Tafolla transcribed, translated, and edited the memoir, which was ultimately published as A Life Crossing Borders: Memoir of a Mexican-American Civil War Soldier, by Arté Público Press in 2009. Item is fragile; some pages are illegible in places; written in pencil.

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Photograph of an unidentified man, wearing a hat, directing unidentified group of people playing instruments at Riverside Park.

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Photograph of an unidentified group of men and women, wearing swimsuits, posing together on a bridge over San Marcos River at Riverside Park.

Photograph of an unidentified group of men and women, wearing swimsuits, posing together on top of a bridge above the San Marcos River at Riverside Park.

Photograph of an unidentified group of men and women, wearing swimsuits, posing together on a bridge over the San Marcos River at Riverside Park.

Photograph of an unidentified person's feet visible above waterline in San Marcos River at Riverside Park.

Photograph of snow along the banks of the San Marcos River.

Photograph of the San Marcos River at Riverside Park.

Photograph of San Marcos River at Riverside Park.

Photograph of three unidentified women standing in front of bridge, wearing ribbons identifying first through third place in unknown pageant in Riverside Park.

Photograph of an unidentified woman walking across bridge at Riverside Park.

Photograph of an unidentified woman walking across bridge at Riverside Park.

Photograph of an unidentified woman standing on one side of bridge at Riverside Park.

Photograph of an unidentified woman walking across a bridge at Riverside Park.

Photograph of an unidentified woman walking across a bridge wearing a sash with the words "Press Club" printed on it at Riverside Park.