Visual Materials

View of West Main St., Kingston, New Mexico

Description: Written on verso: "West Main St. Kingston, Lander County, Nevada. About 25 miles from Austin. Ghost town. Flourished from about 1864 to 1869. See History of Nevada, edited by M. Angel Thompson. West 1881 page 473." This appears to be a misattribution. Research shows that the town appears to be the mining town of Kingston, New Mexico, founded in 1882.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1870s-1890s.
Call number: photCL 98
Creator: Dentzel, Carl S(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Paul and Elizabeth Dentzel, March 24, 1992.

Kingston, New Mexico

Visual Materials

Photographs of the American West, dating from the 1870s to the 1890s, collected by Carl S. Dentzel (1913-1980), director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California, including a disbound album of photographs of Alaska taken by A. L. Broadbent. These views show Revenue Cutter Service ships and officers; Alaskan natives; towns; scenery; the fur trade and mission schools. Other notable photographs in this collection include portraits of John C. Frémont, Harrison Gray Otis, and John A. Sutter; a series of Lake Tahoe card photographs; and views of early western settlers around the time of the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; walrus hunting; whaling ships; totem poles; officers in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service; vacationers throughout California; the logging industry; Kingston, New Mexico; Greek Orthodox church buildings; the first grand jury in Nome, Alaska; James Gilchrist Swan; and a portrait of one of the collection's photographers, Alfred Lee Broadbent. Photographers who contributed to this collection include William C. Billington, Alfred Lee Broadbent, F. Davey, Edward De Groff, Charles D. Kirkland, D. S. Mitchell, C.H. Shaffner, Julius Ulke, and Raper James Waters.

photCL 98

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