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Taos Valley Irrigation Project Materials

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Description: This group contains two reports on the Taos Valley Irrigation Project in New Mexico, prepared by Parker N. Black for Alexander Gusdorf. The first contains a physical description of Gusdorf's New Mexico property and its development prospects, while the second volume consists of topographical maps and photographs of the area. Also included is a handwritten financial report on the project, water permit applications sent from Vernon L. Sullivan to Abraham Lincoln Fellows, and a variety of printed matter (1908-1909) related to farming and mining in New Mexico.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1910.
Call number: mssHM 72322-72326
Creator: Black, Parker N(Opens in new tab)

Esther Mullowney Wood illustrated manuscript for "Penny Paths to Taos,"

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An account of traveling overland by car and trailer to Taos, New Mexico, by four women in 1939 (Esther, Mary Ellen, Bev, and Pat). They left Philadelphia mid-July and the journalistic account continues until their departure from Taos on August 30. Their trailer (named "Tuck") was "6' x 12' built of plywood and covered with duck canvas." Quite a bit of the account in Taos relates their experiences with Taos artists Dorothy Brett, Bert Geer Phillips, and Red Dancer (Juan Mirabal).This draft was submitted to Coronet Magazine in 1940, but was not published. The illustrations, done by Mahan, include drawings of the women's car and trailer, Pike's Peak, interior scenes, Taos Plaza, women in Taos, the pueblos and ranches.

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Taos Pueblo

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"When Taos Pueblo, his first book, was published in 1930, Ansel Adams was just 28 ... Adams had only recently put aside a nascent career as a concert pianist to pursue photography full time, but he still wasn't sure he could make a go of it when he took up the Taos project in collaboration with Mary Austin, a popular novelist and nature writer based in Santa Fe. ... The twelve photos in Taos Pueblo--each an original print on silver bromide paper prepared especially for the book by Adam's San Francisco custom-paper supplier, William Dassonville--include several formal portraits reminiscent of Edward Curtis and nearly circumscribed, almost intimate landscapes that are a far cry from the inflated magnificence associated with Adam's later work. ... The book's solid success at the height of the Depression (all 108 copies sold over two years at $75 a piece) encouraged Adams to continue in his course as a photographer of the American landscape."--The Book of 101 Books : Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century / Edited by Andrew Roth. New York : PPP Editions in association with Ruth Horowitz, 2001.

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Report on Water Rights of the Taos Valley Company (and Successors in Title)

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"Report on Water Rights of the Taos Valley Company (and Succesors in Title), Antonita, Colorado," by R.W. Gelder, Consulting Engineer, Oct. 1952. Company: Newhall Land & Farming Company

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Walter E. Burlingame letter to A.T. McGhee

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This letter is bound in a cover labeled "Report on Property of the Carbon Hill Mine, Grant County, New Mexico." It contains Walter E. Burlingame's description of the Simon Mining District in Grant County, New Mexico, focusing on topographical features of Grant County and including a technical report of mining prospects in the area.

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Photographs of Taos artists and miscellaneous Western photographs, (bulk 1920s-1930s)

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An album with 62 photographs chiefly consisting of snapshots of artists from the Taos, New Mexico art colony, as well as some additional California artists and miscellaneous Western views. The portraits include newspaper cartoonist Walter R. Bradford; Taos art colony figures E. Irving Couse, Joseph Henry Sharp, O.E. Birmingham, Albert Looking Elk (aka Albert Martinez), Joseph Amodeus Fleck, Ernest Blumenschein, Victor Higgins, and Catherine Critcher; Western artists Percy Gray, and Emily Scherzell; Laguna Beach art colony artists Frank Cuprien and Emily White, and artist Aldro T. Hibbard. The Western views including images of camping, riding horses, and calf roping and branding. One image is not a photograph but rather a silhouette of a woman labeled "Kay". The final photographs appear to be family snapshots, including some from the early 1900s.

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SANTA YNEZ VALLEY (Calif.)IRRIGATION PROJECT: Newspaper Clippings

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The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including diaries and mining reports), photographs and maps related to the career of mining engineer Charles Janin. Subject matter in the collection focuses on minerals, mines and mining, especially in California, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Russia (including Siberia), and Central and South America. There is information about gold, silver, platinum, and tin mining as well as gold dredging.

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