Photo USNA2-3.2.
Headquarters of General Noguera
Gómez,
morning of March 28.
Marvelously unstaged and captioned as
the "headquarters of General Noguera
Gómez,"
the photo shows several officers seated
at a table inside the stick-and-thatch
hut, either meeting or eating or both,
while another officer strolls in from
the right, accompanied by an aide, and
two soldiers stand guard at left; the
soldier at the far left appears nearly
barefoot and quite young, perhaps around
14 or 15?
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Photo USNA2-3.3. Field
telegraph & telephone office of Gen. Noguera
Gómez,
morning of March 28.
This "field telegraph &
telephone office"
closely resembles the
"headquarters" in the previous
photograph. The portly man
second from right, and his aide
at the far right, appear to be
the same individuals strolling
into the "headquarters" hut in
the previous photo. The
officer in the center is not
identified.
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Photo USNA2-3.5. Female
soldier with Noguera
Gómez'
forces, morning of March 28.
A rare image indeed.
Her hair cut short and wearing a man's
attire, this young woman soldier poses
for the photographer as she stands at
attention next to a sizeable field hut
(the side of Gen. Noguera
Gómez's
field headquarters?), cradling her rifle
at her left, her countenance perhaps
bespeaking muted reluctance at being
photographed and suspicion at the
photographer's intent.
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Photo USNA2-3.7. Pack ox
used to carry supplies from Boaco to Noguera
Gómez's
forces, March 28.
Great (if overexposed)
image of a fully-loaded pack-ox
headed straight at you.
And of two horses' and
one soldier's backsides.
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Photo USNA2-3.8. Pack ox
used to carry supplies from Boaco to Noguera
Gómez's
forces, March 28.
Major Rodriguez pausing
mid-stream, his
fully-loaded pack-ox taking a
drink.
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Photo USNA2-3.9. Pack mule,
showing type of aparejo used. Boaco,
Sunday morning, March 27.
An interesting and
horizontally layered photograph
of compelling
composition and detail, probably
snapped in Boaco on the morning
of Sunday, March 27, 1927,
judging from Major Bloor's
report. The viewer sees
from the close-up frontquarters
of the tethered mule and its
aparejo, to the US mule-rider at
mid-distance (probably Major
Rodriguez, wiping his eyes?
adjusting his cavalry-scout
Stetson hat? picking his
nose?), to the buildings in the
background, to the horizon in
the far distance. At the
far right a blurred man walks
across the street. The
caption reads: "Pack mule,
showing type of aparejo used."
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Photo USNA2-3.10. Pack mule
& street scene in Boaco, Sunday morning, March 27.
Boaco, probably,
on the morning of
Sunday, March 27, 1927.
Intended to illustrate the
mule's aparejo, the photo also
shows a typical urban street
scene in the Pacific Coast
region during this period.
Two barefoot boys stand nearby,
while men & women walk & sit &
live their lives in the
distance.
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THE END
of Major A. W. Bloor's
photographs of Conservative forces, March
26-28, 1927.
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