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Views of New Mexico, including gold miners and Jemez Pueblo

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Description: Cabinet card photographs of New Mexico including ruins of adobe Catholic church, Socorro; interior of chapel in Santa Cruz; and the Catholic cathedral and plaza in Albuquerque. Other photographs: a studio portrait of two Native American women and an overview of Jemez Pueblo, showing dwellings and crops; an orchard and watering system on a fruit ranch; and two gold miners posed with tools in the desert, described on verso as "two prospectors in act of sinking shaft."
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Production date: approximately 1880s.
Call number: photPF 1510-1529
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
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Maria Abeyeta, a girl of the Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico

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This set of photographs by Frederick Monsen focuses on Native Americans of the Southwest in mostly candid views taken in Pueblo communities, approx. 1886-1911. Photographs include portraits, ceremonies, dances, pueblos, livestock and scenes of daily activities. A smaller portion of the collection consists of landscapes, cliff-dwellings, ruins, gold miners, wagons and scenes of pioneer life in the West. Some photographs were made by Monsen while he was with U.S. Geological Surveys (including the Brown-Stanton survey of 1889), and others during his own photography trips. The majority of Native Americans pictured are Hopi and Navajo, but there are also Paiute, Apache, and Pueblo Indians. There are a few views of Mojave Indians of Southern California, and natives of Baja, Mexico. There are several views of Indian children, shown with and without clothes, in their daily activities. Scenes of non-Indian Western life include men in covered wagons on trails, gold prospectors and stagecoaches. There are many artistic landscape views of canyons, buttes and mesas; Death Valley; salt beds; ancient ruins; cactus and other desert plants. Unusual subjects of note are three photographs of skeletons in the deserts of Arizona and one view of the covered bodies of prospectors being carried on burros. The prints are all signed by Monsen and have typed or handwritten captions on the back, written by Monsen.

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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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View of Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico

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Family photographs, albums, clippings and other items relating to the early life and career of photographer Carl Moon (1878-1948) and his wife, Grace Moon, who wrote a series of children's books revolving around Hopi and Navajo culture in the Southwest. There are several portraits of both of them and portraits of Moon family members. A photo/clipping album contains many scenes of their early home life in Pasadena, Ca., with their two children, along with clippings about their careers. There is one view of Grace Moon at El Tovar studio in the Grand Canyon. Another album details several generations of the Moon family in photographs dating from the mid-19th to early-20th centuries. Ephemera includes a 1909 brochure for Hotel El Tovar at the Grand Canyon, and diaries and artwork by Carl Moon's family members.

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Acoma, New Mexico

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View of the Los Angeles Plaza

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View of the Los Angeles Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, California, in the foreground behind an iron fence, with a row of buildings, beyond, including the Lugo House obscured by a tree, and storefronts, some with signs for a shoemaker, and the L.A. City Water Co. A man stands on a walkway near a fountain in the landscaped plaza with a hose watering the lawn and plants.

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View on Pearl Street, Los Angeles

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View looking down the sidewalk of Pearl Street in Los Angeles, California, and showing the front yards, lawns, and gardens of residences, with a man watering a lawn with a garden hose.

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