"Our Army" on the Rio Grande by T. B. Thorpe: Window of a Private House - Family looking out at the American troops marching by

A print of a window protected with iron bars of a private residence from which a Mexican woman and her children look out at the passing American soldiers. As Thorpe travelled through the city of Matamoras during the American occupation, he described one of the brick houses of a wealthy citizen who was a Mexican colonel and stated, "as you progress along, you see, peeping through grated windows, pairs of dark eyes that flash strangely with fear and curiosity; little children retreat before you with that gait peculiar to the young of timid animals, that flee from instinct, before they do it from reason." [This print is from the book "Our Army on the Rio Grande," by Thomas Bangs Thorpe, opposite page 140]