Photo MCRC-3.1. Patrol on the
march.
No caption or date. A big
patrol marching single-file across a
plain; maybe one of las sabanas
around Macuelizo.
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Photo MCRC-3.2. Patrol
fording shallow river.
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Photo MCRC-3.3. Patrol
marching through low brush.
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Photo MCRC-3.4. Patrol
fording stream.
No caption or date on the three
photos above, which despite their
poor quality capture many of the
quotidian activities of
Marine-Guardia ground patrols.
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Photo MCRC-3.5. Pedro
the dog, San Juan de Limay, May 1928.
""Pedro" age 2 months
May 25, 1928 St.
Juan de Limay,
Nicaragua. Geo. F.
Stockes".
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Photo MCRC-3.6. Lt.
Salzman with George the Mule, 50th Co., San
Lucas.
"Lieut. Salzman, 50th Co. San Lucas
with "George"" Developed &
printed at "Post Studio" in Managua.
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Photo MCRC-3.7. Native
couple on small child's baptism day.
A powerful image. The title
given above is based on appearances
-- this looks like a
husband & wife on their child's
baptism day; the white formal garb
draping woman and child suggests a
religious ritual of some kind (a
wedding seems unlikely with the
child dressed so.)
Especially notable are the couple's
bare feet, suggesting their poverty
and low social status. Is this
a Guardia recruit? Probably a friend or ally of George
Stockes (who likely gave the man a
copy & kept one for himself).
A photo crying out for the caption
it doesn't come with.
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Photo MCRC-3.8.
Guardia barracks, Somoto.
Photo is not captioned, but the
round church roof, poking over the
far (left) end of the barracks,
appears to be the same structure as
in the photo below.
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Photo MCRC-3.9. Mounted
patrol headed out of Somoto.
No caption or date. Mounted
patrol clearing Somoto, with Capt.
Stockes probably in the lead,
turning around, and snapping this
shot.
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Photo MCRC-3.10. Foot
patrol across the plains.
No caption or date. Foot
patrol of 17 or so men in the
camera's eye.
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Photo MCRC-3.11.
Marines at rest outside building.
No caption or date, but like all the
other Stockes photos here cries out
to be scanned at high-resolution.
A great photograph.
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Photo MCRC-3.12. Patrol
through pine forest.
Point man turns around & snaps.
An evocative image.
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Photo MCRC-3.13.
Patrol stopped on hillside.
Looks like a traffic jam. More
likely a meeting of some kind, as
the men's attention appears to be
directed to the cluster of people in
the middle-background. Perhaps
these were Honduran border agents,
all of whom Capt. Stockes knew
personally, and who for political
reasons could not permit themselves
to be photographed (recognizably)
with Marines. Another blurry
image meriting a high-res scan.
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Photo MCRC-3.14. Foot
patrol along trail in flatlands.
Twenty-eight or so men visible,
seven on horseback. Stockes
must have ridden into the brush for
a moment just to snap this shot.
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Photo MCRC-3.15. Foot
patrol through mountains.
Captures the moment -- a foot patrol
on the march, seven men we can see,
rifles slung across their backs,
heading downhill & away from the
viewer.
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