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Photographs of soldaderas

Searching for Soldaderas: The Women of the Mexican Revolution in Photographs | Los Angeles | Artbound | KCET
What can portraits tell us about soldaderas? Nao Bustamante draws from UC Riverside’s archival holdings of photographs of the Mexican Revolution to investigate further.

Some of the pictures here are just breathtaking.

For more on soldaderas, you can always visit the RP entry on famed soldadera Petra Herrera here.

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