(MEXICO) Carte de visite photograph of Mexican general Serva

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(MEXICO.) Carte-de-visite photograph of Mexican general Servando Canales. Albumen print, 3 1/2 x 2 inches, on original plain mount, captioned on verso; minor foxing. Np, circa 1870s?

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Servando Canales (1830-1881) was an officer in the Mexican Army. He served as a general in the Republican resistance to the Maximilian regime, and later served three terms as governor of Tamaulipas. The airport at Matamoros is named in his honor. His father Antonio (1802-1852) was an important general in the Mexican-American War. Another pose from this same sitting is published in Thompson & Jones, Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier, page 123.