{"id":12017,"date":"2013-03-07T07:25:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T12:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=12017"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:09:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:09:29","slug":"pine-barrens-mexicos-lone-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/03\/07\/pine-barrens-mexicos-lone-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating Mexico’s Lone Eagle in the Pine Barrens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"posing-w-pedestal-2-det\"<\/a>I was looking through the negatives shot by John B. Capewell<\/strong> of Westville, New Jersey<\/strong> trying to figure out what to post next. The two plates I went with this week look like they went along with the shots in my earlier posts Sawdust Pile<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>and Shed<\/em><\/strong> on the Edge of the Woods<\/strong><\/em>.<\/a> At first glance I assumed it was a cornerstone of some building that was going up, but as I was working on them in Photoshop, I realized that it was probably a pedestal for some monument. Maybe a statue was going to go on top. I zoomed in and tried to make out the lettering on the stone but to no avail.<\/p>\n

It was time to get Jerseyman<\/strong><\/a> involved.<\/p>\n

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\"posing-w-pedestal-2\"<\/a>Although I couldn’t make out the lettering or symbols on the stone, I figured the pedestal’s shape was definitive enough that somebody could identify it. If it was in New Jersey, that somebody would be the incomparable Jerseyman<\/strong><\/a> who has helped out this site many times before with his encyclopedic knowledge of The Garden State.<\/em> I sent him the JPEG files of this week’s images.<\/p>\n

\"posing-w-pedestal-det\"<\/a>Jerseyman<\/strong><\/a> replied:<\/p>\n

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These images show the Carranza Memorial, erected to commemorate the crash site of Mexico\u2019s Lone Eagle, Emilio Carranza, who died in the crash during the night of 12-13 July 1928. The children of Mexico saved up their pennies for creating the monument and American Legion Post 11 of Mount Holly oversaw the monument\u2019s erection in 1931 and promised the children of Mexico that they would always hold a memorial service every July to remember Carranza. The monument still stands in Tabernacle Township, Burlington County within Wharton State Forest.<\/p>\n

These images appear to date soon after the workmen completed the monument in 1931. Since it appears Capewell exposed these negatives at the same time as the sawdust and sawmill images, there is a very good chance that the sawmill is the one nearby at Sandy Ridge belonging to Mead and Crane. See this thread on the forums:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/forums.njpinebarrens.com\/threads\/the-mead-crane-sawmill-at-sandy-ridge.8981\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Emilio Carranza<\/p><\/div>\n

Captain Emilio Carranza Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1905 \u2013 1928) was a famous Mexican aviator and national hero who in 1928 undertook a goodwill flight from Mexico City to New York City. The flight was in response to the previous year’s flight from New York to Mexico by Charles Lindbergh<\/strong>. Carranza piloting The Excelsior<\/em> succeeded in his flight landing in Washington, DC\u00a0on June 12, 1928, where he was congratulated by President Calvin Coolidge.<\/strong> He then flew on to New York, landing at Roosevelt Field on Long Island and was honored in New York City by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover<\/strong> and New York City mayor Jimmy Walker.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was during the return flight when Carranza ran into tragedy. There was bad weather and despite the urging of Charles Lindbergh and others not to go, The Lone Eagle flew. Bolstered by a telegram from the U.S. Weather Bureau, Carranza took off after dark during a break in the storm in the New York region. While flying over the Pinelands of South Jersey amidst thunderstorms, his plane became disabled, and he crashed into the woods.
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\"posing-w-pedestal\"<\/a>I am sad to say that like a lot of people I have never heard of Emilio Carranza<\/strong>, but back when Capewell<\/strong> snapped the pictures of the 12′ monument being built at Carranza’s crash site in the Wharton State Forest<\/strong> in Tabernacle Township, New Jersey<\/strong>, it was pretty big news. I’m not sure whether Capewell worked on the site or whether he was just documenting it for posterity.<\/p>\n

Here’s a modern shot of the monument courtesy of Wikipedia.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Carranza<\/strong> is still memorialized every July on the Saturday nearest the anniversary of his crash (second Saturday in July) at 1:00 p.m. He is honored at the monument site by members of the American Legion Mount Holly Post 11 accompanied by an entourage from the Mexican consulates in New York City and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

1931 is also much later than a lot of the other glass negatives I’ve been publishing to this site. A lot of them date from the first decade or so of the twentieth century. I assumed they all were, but these shots prove they were not. I guess Capewell liked the 5″ x 7″ format and stuck with it.<\/p>\n

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About The Capewell Glass Negative Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Capewell Glass Negative<\/strong> Collection<\/strong><\/a> is a series of about 200 5-inch by 7-inch glass negatives shot early in the 20th Century by John Batt Capewell<\/strong> (1878-1951) of Westville, New Jersey.<\/strong> John passed the negatives down to his son Henry who left them in his wife\u2019s possession upon his passing. Henry\u2019s widow didn\u2019t know what to do with them and didn\u2019t particularly want them so she offered them to my Dad who couldn\u2019t turn down anything. Ultimately I wound up with them and thought I would one day have photographic prints struck from them. That didn\u2019t happen, but I came up with the digital workaround of placing the negatives on a lightbox and rephotographing them with a digital camera. The \u201cprocessing\u201d<\/em> was then done on a computer with image editing software. They came out better than I thought they would so I thought I would show them off to the world on this site. Many of these pictures have not been seen in a century, and I\u2019m proud to be presenting them today.<\/p>\n

At first, I did not know who the people were in the photographs. I have a box of ephemera that accompanied the negatives and snagged a few clues from that as far as the Capewell name. I did some research on the internet and had a few false starts and wrong turns, but the readers of these posts have provided a remarkable amount of research and detail. I\u2019m amazed at what people have turned up sifting through public records and such!<\/p>\n

This story continues to evolve. Every Thursday, I will post a Capewell picture or two. If you recognize a person or place in one of the shots or just want to drop a line, feel free to comment!<\/p>\n

Last: Shed on the Edge of the Woods<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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