Photos: Tucson history
Photos of Tucson's past.
Railroad station
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections, Arizona, Southwestern and Miscellaneous Photograph Collection, Tucson (Ariz.)-Railroads-Stations (Southern Pacific Railroad), Photographs and postcards
Tucson Daily Citizen
Copy of Historic Tucson Daily Citizen; SOUTHERN PACIFIC LARGE FACTOR IN TUCSON GROWTH, Consolidated National Bank of Tucson ad.
Alvaro Obregon, Pancho Villa, John J. Pershing
FILE -- This picture, taken at the border at Nogales, Ariz., in 1916, shows left to right, Gen. Alvaro Obregon, Gen. Pancho Villa and Gen. John J. Pershing in a friendly meeting. A few months afterward the three generals becames "enemies on the field" as Pershing dashed into Mexico in pursuit of Villa. According to newly discovered documents Villa stole 122 bars of silver from a Wells Fargo train in 1913, then secretly struck a deal to sell most of the loot back to the bank. (AP Photo/File) Copyright 1996 The Arizona Daily Star PLS:Historic; Book:A; People: Pancho Villa, Alvaro Obregon, John J. Pershing
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Tucson is officially historic.