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Magne in Mexico

This would have been around 1900 or shortly thereafter, in Tampico, Mexico. Thank you to my cousin Morten Kjellesvig for this amazing photo. My great-grandfather Magne Kjellesvig -- at the far right looking like one of Roosevelt's Rough Riders -- left Norway as a very young man to work as an engineer in South and Central America. This international crew, from left to right, is King, Yo Ye, Curry, Shalber, Ugarte, Lebeidriek (?), del Campo, and Magne Kjellesvig. (He IDs himself "Keli!")

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Uploaded on December 23, 2006
Taken on December 22, 2006