Category Archives: Historical Scenes

March of the Rurales on Mexico’s “Fourth of July,” by Frederic Remington

Cinco de mayo
DescriptionEnglish: Illustration by Frederic Remington from Collier’s. The original caption:

MARCH OF THE RURALES ON MEXICO’S “FOURTH OF JULY”—THE GREATEST FÊTE DAY, MAY 5

The Fifth of May, or as it is known in Mexico, el Cinco de Mayo, is a national holiday of the Mexicans. It is practically the equivalent of the American Fourth of July. On that day, in 1862, a force of Mexicans defeated at Puebla the French invading army that was trying to set up Maximilian on the throne as emperor. Maximilian was captured in 1867 with his two generals, Miramon and Mejia, and shot on June 19 of the same year. The Mexicans make a great military fete day of el Cinco de Mayo. The picture shows the famous “Rurales,” or rural police, parading in celebration of the day
Date1902
SourceCollier’s Weekly (https://archive.org/details/colliers-weekly-v-29n-06-1902-05-10.-colliers-darwination-ia/page/n15/mode/2up?view=theater)
AuthorFrederic Remington

Below, the illustration with its original caption.

Calvin Coolidge Declines to Run, by Cy Hungerford

DescriptionEnglish: “Through Fishin’?” Editorial cartoon by Cy Hungerford in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, referring to Calvin Coolidge’s decision not to run for a third term as president, which he announced in a very short statement: “I do not choose to run for President in 1928.”
Date1927
SourcePittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 5, 1927 (https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=gL9scSG3K_gC&dat=19270805&printsec=frontpage&hl=en)
AuthorCy Hungerford

The image was taken from an archival microfilm, cleaned up a bit, and converted to SVG by bitmap tracing in Inkscape.