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1913 W. H. Horne RPPC postcard of the b*dy if e**cuted Mexican Officer Colonel Enrique Portillo. This occured during the Mexico Revolution of 1910-1920.
Col. Enrique Portilla was a Mexican federal army officer serving under the Huerta regime who was e**cuted in Ciudad Juárez on 15 November 1913 during the Mexican Revolution.
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Photographer “819 W. H. Horne Co.”
Message on back
April 21-14
Chicago Ill
Hello: here is the first dead one from Mexico. Four Americans k*lled today
A.J.H.
Postmarked 'CHICAGO, ILL. APR 22 1914’ and mailed to Millers Ind.
1913 was the year Mexico descended into full civil war.
The assassination of President Madero during the Ten Tragic Days allowed General Victoriano Huerta to seize power, triggering nationwide rebellion by Constitutionalist, Villista, and Zapatista forces.
Northern border cities like Ciudad Juárez became unstable military zones marked by purges, executions, and shifting control—conditions that directly shaped the fate of Col. Enrique Portilla.
His e**cution occurred during a period of rapid turnover in Juárez command, purges of suspected disloyal officers, and shifting control between Huertistas and Constitutionalist forces. His b*dy was photographed shortly after execution by W.H. Horne, a prolific El Paso photographer whose images of the Mexican Revolution were widely sold as real‑photo postcards.
Walter H. Horne was born in 1883 in Hallowell, Maine. Horne traveled to El Paso in 1909 and stayed because of his ailing health and business ventures. In 1911 Horne started taking and sending postcards of the Southwest to his family members. During the Mexican Revolution he took photographs depicting graphic realities of war. He was a prominent publisher of war scene photographers.
https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/epbhc/00022/bhc-00022.html
The Mexican Revolution, also known as the Mexican Civil War, was a major armed struggle, lasting roughly from 1910 to 1920, that transformed Mexican culture and government.
