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Paul Outerbridge : new color photographs from Mexico and California, 1948-1955
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Two albums with 96 photographs of family portraits and scenes taken in Illinois, Maine, Nebraska, California, and New Mexico. The first volume contains images of domestic life and residential streets in Evanston, Illinois, in 1887-1888; a family vacation to Searsmont and Appleton, Maine, in the summer of 1889; and life in Schuyler, Nebraska, in 1890. The second album begins with a family trip through New Mexico and California from February to March 1890, then turns to scenes of domestic life and street scenes in Omaha, Nebraska, from 1890 to 1893. Among the locations are Santa Fe, New Mexico; Colton, California; Alhambra, California; Santa Barbara, California; San Francisco, California; Collinsville, California; and Council Bluffs, Iowa. While most of the photographs are arranged chronologically, the end of second volume contains some additional family photographs from 1888-1890. Both volumes contain a number of informal family portraits, with many taken outdoors. Notable images include interior views of the family's parlor and dining room, with family members seated for a meal, laundry drying outdoors, the interior of the Schuyler National Bank, a maypole, a President's Day celebration in 1891, and the display of silver wedding gifts. The two group portraits from Collinsville, California, include a Chinese man dressed in traditional clothing. One photograph in the second album created with flash photography is labeled "First Flash Light Picture ; New Years Eve Dec. 21, 1891", and there is also a self-portrait of the family photographer with a camera.
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The Daniel D. Harkness papers primarily consist of diaries, military records, and photographs related to his service in the 1st Volunteer Cavalry, 34th Infantry Regiment, American Expeditionary Forces, and Forest Service. There are 189 photographs of the Philippines, Hawaii, Arkansas, Lake Arrowhead, New Mexico, and at sea. In addition, there is ephemera related to his time in Langres, France with the AEF. There is a folder with items related to John C. Couts and another related to Oscar N. Land. Other ephemera includes material related to the Roosevelt's Rough Riders Reunion in 1928. There is an oversize panoramic photograph of 604th Engineer Company D, C, and F Washington Barracks, D.C., August 1917. Note: This panoramic photograph is fragile.
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A collection of 139 photographic postcards featuring Mexican cities, landmarks, and people, collected by American tourists during the first half of the twentieth century. The postcards are almost all captioned and many include the copyright of Mexican photography studios such as Fidel Figueroa, M.R. Martinez, Kodak Mexicana Ltd., Navarro Fot., Sabino Osuna, Hugo Brehme, and others. The postcards depict market and street scenes, portraits of Mexican farmers and vendors, churches and monuments, hotels, restaurants, musicians, bull cart drivers, and children, in locations such as Mexico City, Taxco, Acapulco, Monterrey, Cuernavaca, and Tijuana. There are also a few images of house interiors, showing furnishings and artwork. Twenty of the postcards were mailed from Mexico to family and friends in New York, and include cancelled stamps and handwritten notes from visiting Americans.
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Album of views of Southern California, New Mexico, and Colorado
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Photographs of Arizona and New Mexico
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Consists of ten photographs by various photographs including Edwin Baer of Prescott, Arizona and George Wharton James. They encompass landscape photographs presumably of the Grand Canyon, views of the cliff dwellings at Walnut Canyon National Monument, and dwellings and life in Acoma, New Mexico.
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