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Comment by Bill Cowan on October 24, 2011 at 1:44am

Cool Pic and thanks for sharing.  Do you have any idea where this photo was taken?

Comment by Lucia Perry on October 24, 2011 at 6:38pm

These photos were Judy England's, who gave them to my dad. They were friends who lived near Nogales in their later years. Judy's father, William Beckford Kibbey, was an Eastern blue-blood, who fell in love with the West.  Kibbey had been a Harvard student, but was kicked out after his crush on an actress got the better of his studies. When Kibbey came to the West around 1900, he worked in Cananea, MX and went into partnership with Ramón Elias in Sonora as land owners of the 60,000-acre Rancho El Alamo.To guard against roaming bandits, Kibbey built a castlelike fortress to protect his family.
In 1912, Kibbey married Josefina Mix y Escalante. Judy and her sister grew up at this castle, but attended boarding school. Judy was a Bryn Mawr graduate (& a very good conversationalist). So, the photo is most likely taken in S. Arizona or Sonora, on the way to El Alamo.

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