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Eusebio Chacon Photographs

1840s-1860s.

Origination : Chacon, Eusebio
Extent : 5 photographs.
Repository : University of Notre Dame Archives
Address : Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
English.

Administrative Information

Source

Eusebio Chacon.

Preferred Citation

Eusebio Chacon Photographs (CHC), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556

Scope and Content

Portraits of Jeb Stuart, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and his consort Carlota, and General Don Manuel de Mier y Teran.

Background

Born in Penasco, New Mexico, 16 December 1869, Eusebio Chacon grew up in Trinidad, Colorado, attended Las Vegas College in New Mexico, and earned a law degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1889. He taught English in Mexico, practiced law in Colorado, and worked as translator for the United States Court of Private Land Claims. He edited and wrote for El Progreso in Trinidad, Colorado. He wrote El Hijo de la Tempestad, Tras la Tormenta la Calma: Dos Novelitas Originales (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Tipografia de El Boleti­n Popular, 1892), and some of his work appears in The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (New York : W.W. Norton, 2011).

Index

Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882
Stuart, Jeb, 1833-1864
Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 1832-1867
Carlota, Empress, consort of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 1840-1927
Mier y Teran, Manuel de

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