Casasola was later thanked by the interim president in 1911, Francisco León de la Barra, for having "inaugurated a new phase of freedom in the press photography."
[3] When El Imparcial went out of business in 1917, Casasola recovered the newspaper's archives, eventually compiling many of the photographs into the famed "Album histórico gráfico" which covered the events of the Mexican Revolution.
It is believed the work did not fare well due to the changing attitude of people wanting to move on from the death and suffering that plagued the civil war.
[3] Casasola worked with his brother Miguel (1876-1951) and the family business expanded with the participation of his sons and daughters, Gustavo (1900-1982), Agustín (1901-1980), Ismael (1902-1964), Dolores (1907-2001), Piedad (1909-1953) and Mario (1923-1988).
Casasola might have "recogniz[ed] that it was important to create a single brand in order to compete with the foreign photo news agencies pouring into Mexico during the Revolution.