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Susan Toomey Frost

Susan Toomey Frost is a major collector and authority on Mexican and Mexican American photography and decorative art. She has taught English and linguistics at universities in Mexico and Texas. She is the author of Colors on Clay: The San José Tile Workshops of San Antonio, Timeless Mexico: The Photographs of Hugh Brehme, and Roberto de la Selva: Modern Mexican Masterpieces in Wood. She lives in San Antonio. Her latest book is Witness to War: Mexico in the Photographs of Walter Elias Hadsell.

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  • Witness to War: Mexico in the Photographs of Walter Elias Hadsell by Susan Toomey Frost

    Witness to War: Mexico in the Photographs of Walter Elias Hadsell

    "Witness to War" presents a compelling visual record of a young American man's venture in Mexico as the country veered into revolution in the early 1900s. Walter Elias Hadsell, a skilled photographer who had recently graduated as a mining engineer, documented a critical period of foreign investment in Mexico's mining industry and, in the process, captured scenes of Mexican life in other cities.

    Susan Toomey Frost draws from an extensive collection of Hadsell's original photographic prints to narrate his ten years in Mexico. The images in "Witness to War" follow him from his time as a mining engineer in Mexico to his 1917 return to mining in Arizona, his home state.


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