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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."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1880s.
Call number: photPF 1510-1529
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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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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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New Mexico; Oregon

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There are 14 photographs from New Mexico. One is a portrait of Lt. Peter Dumont Vroom Jr. (1842-1926), U.S. Army Brigadier General. There is also an outdoor photograph of a woman on a horse, with a view of a small Western town and boardwalk, taken by an Albuquerque photographer. Portraits from Oregon include: Zenas Ferry Moody, 7th governor of Oregon, his son, and 29 other portraits marked by the collector as "from Governor Moody group."

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Pueblos of New Mexico. School house at San Rafael, New Mexico

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Two women and one man standing in front of a school building.

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Views of New Mexico, including gold miners and Jemez Pueblo

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