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  • Cliff Dwellings, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico

    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

  • New Mexico, Mesa Encantada

    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.

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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."

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  • Acoma, New Mexico. Wall of defense

    Acoma, New Mexico. Wall of defense

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    A view of the walls of Acoma showing fortifications and peepholes for viewing.

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