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Photographs of Arizona and New Mexico

Description: 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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Production date: approximately 1880s-1900s.
Call number: photPF 2020-2029
Provenance: Acquired from various sources.; Acquired from
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Cliff Dwellings, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico

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Framed dagguereotype showing the rocky side of a mountain with cliff dwellings at Frijloes Canyon in Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico.

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Photographs from the McDowell expedition of Arizona territory

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Consists of eighteen photographs of the Arizona landscape and indigenous people taken by Charles H. Brinley. Subjects include Santa Maria, Prescott, Sierra Prieta, Granite Mountain, Mojave peoples, Fort Mojave, Tonto Spring, and various expedition lodgings.

photPF 160-177

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Articles on Arizona, New Mexico, and Indians

Manuscripts

Includes scrapbook of correspondence and clippings entitled: "Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona" (1891-1894), correspondence regarding the Grand Canyon (1892-1893), articles and notes (1891-1913).

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New Mexico, Mesa Encantada

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Wide landscape view of butte and surrounding desert near Acoma.

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Photographs of the American Southwest and Virginia

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Consists of 11 photographs. Five are snapshots of the Mission Santa Clara church building and items including a Latin liturgical text and chair. One of these is a photograph of a daguerreotype of the Mission prior to 1858. Three photographs, taken by George Wharton James were taken of Indigenous women at the Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico, a procession for the Feast of St. Stephens at the Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, and an indigenous man named Moki on his burro returning to his home in Walpi, Arizona. The remaining three photographs, taken in Virginia, are of the Petersburg Harbor, Virginia, a portrait of Richmond College President Frederic William Boatwright, and a candid snapshot of Robert Alonzo Brock, Jr. at Richmond College.

photPF 2030-2039

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Views of New Mexico, including gold miners and Jemez Pueblo

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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."

photPF 1510-1529

Photographs of Arizona and New Mexico

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