Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico Views Collection, ca. 1885-1915

Summary

Creator:

Anonymous

Abstract:

The Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico views collection contains 24 photographs of places and people in the western United States, British Colombia, and Mexico.

Extent:

24 photographs in 1 album

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by Jakob Dopp, June 2024

Background

Scope and Content:

The Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico views collection contains 24 photographs of places and people in the western United States, British Colombia, and Mexico.

The collection is stored in a modern brown plastic binder (30.5 x 23.5 cm). Contents consist of images of the Ferguson area of British Columbia; pack mules at work; a gold mine in Oatman, Arizona; Idaho Springs, Colorado; Santa Fe and Laguna, New Mexico; a woman from Cuernavaca, Mexico; buildings (including a Mexican cathedral); portraits of Native Americans in New Mexico; and mountains in Colorado. The collection include mounted and unmounted photographs ranging in size from cartes de visite to prints on 20 x 25 cm mounts.

Acquisition Information:

Purchased from MacManus, February 2001. F-555 .

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Subjects

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Subjects:

Photographs shelf.
Cathedrals--Mexico--1880-1920.
Churches--1880-1920.
Indians of North America--New Mexico.
Laguna Indians.
Mining--1890-1920.
Mules--1890-1920.

Formats:

Cartes de visite.
Collodion silver printing-out paper prints.
Gelatin silver prints.
Landscape photographs.
Portrait photographs.

Places:

Chaffee County (Colo.)
Idaho Springs (Colo.)
Laguna (N.M.)
Mexico.
Oatman (Ariz.)
San Juan Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)