Mexican Border Veterans, Incorporated and Auxiliary Scrapbooks
name: label: Creator
content: Hubbard, Howard
label: Creator
content: Mexican Border Veterans, Inc.
label: Names
content: Closson, Clairice A.G.
label: Names
content: Villa, Pancho
label: Names
content: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
title: label: Topic
content: Bugler, The (newsletter)
topic: label: Topic
content: Mexican-American Border Region
label: Topic
content: Mexico -- Boundaries -- United States -- 1910-1920
label: Topic
content: Veterans -- 1910-1920 -- United States
label: Topic
content: Military pensions
label: Topic
content: United States -- History -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: United States. Army -- History -- Punitive Expedition into Mexico, 1916
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated to the Museum in 1986, through Howard Hubbard and Fabian E. Johnson.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hubbard, Howard
label: Creator
content: Mexican Border Veterans, Inc.
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content: Mexican Border Veterans, Incorporated and Auxiliary Scrapbooks
abstract: label: Summary
content: Collection consists primarily of five scrapbooks and other materials documenting the acctivities of the Mexican Border Veterans, Incorporated and Auxiliary.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mexican Border Veterans, Incorporated (MBV) was a civilian association founded by Clairice A. G. Closson of Independence, Missouri in 1929.  Closson was one of the participants in the Mexican border initiative of mid 1916.  The association consisted of men who patrolled the Mexican-American border between May 9, 1916 and April 1917.  Their presence on the border came about as a response to President Woodrow Wilson's call on the National Guard and the Army in mid 1916 to guard the border which had been repeatedly invaded by Francisco (Pancho) Villa, a Mexican revolutionary leader who carried out his incursions against residents of southern Texas.  The MBV was formed by ex-Mexican-American border veterans to seek recognition and veteran benefits to which they were entitled as United States government ex-servicemen of a foreign war.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.66 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1909-1985, undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Transferred from the Division of Community Life (now the Division of Home and Community Life) to the Archives Center in 1986.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0119
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Annual reports
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Clippings
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Newsletters
label: Type
content: Minutes
label: Type
content: Correspondence
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Robert Harding, archivist, 1986 and Vanessa Broussard Simmons, archivist, 2025.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Annual reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Clippings
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Newsletters -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Minutes
label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence -- 1930-1950
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Collection documents the activities of the Mexican Border Veterans, Incorporated (MBV) and Auxiliary primarily in scrapbooks created by an unknown source. These scrapbooks were initially in three ring binders and contained Mexican Border Veterans annual reports; convention minutes; samples of the Mexican Border Veterans newsletter, The Bugler; photographs of various officers and members of the association and their spouses; brochures of the association's conventions; brief historical sketches of the association; some biographical sketches of the founders of the association; newspaper clippings from unidentified newspapers; limited correspondence among national, state or regional Mexican Border Veterans officials and other miscellaneous correspondence. These materials have been removed and placed in folders. In addition, there are some materials that were not in the notebooks and included photographs, related publications, and a map.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials in the  National Museum of American History

The Division of Home and Community Life (now Division of Cultural and Community Life) holds related materials.  See accessions 1984.0781 and 1985.0781.