Letter to Addie from Ash, February 5, 1919.

Letter to Addie from Ash, February 5, 1919.

Jones, Addie Tubb Smith

Addie became engaged to Asher, a photographer sent by his El Paso studio to New Mexico to cover the U.S. military campaign against Pancho Villa. In 1918 Asher enlisted in the Photographic Department of the U.S. Aviation Corps, and performed duties at San Antonio's Kelly Field, and Garden City, Long Island, New York. Addie's letters to her fiancé reveal racial prejudices of the day, as well as provide descriptive and interesting social commentary. The couple married in 1919 and moved to Brooklyn; Asher's letters to Addie from the road express his love and admiration

Jones, Addie Tubb Smith

1919

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