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C.W. Ritter photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-0273-SC

Scope and Contents

This collection includes a picture of scouting in Lincoln national forest, two pictures of Native Americans, a picture of a Sunday afternoon at Alamogordo, New Mexico on Nov. 1, 1908 taken by Jim Alexander, a picture of the Mescalero Reservation and pictures of the general Cloudcroft area. Several contact prints of some of the pictures are included as well.

Dates

  • ca. 1908

Biographical / Historical

Not much is known about C.W. “Buddy” Ritter, except that he once was owner and operator of the Cloudcroft Lodge and purchased the property of the Cloudcroft Baby Sanatorium Corporation. He replaced the sanatorium building with a private residence.

http://www.cloudcroftmuseum.com/MuseumDisplays.htm

Extent

1 folders (Small Collections Photographs)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Pictures of Cloudcroft, Alamogordo, and Native Americans around the turn of the century.

Processing Information

Updated by Cassie McClure, August 2005
Title
Guide to the C.W. Ritter photographs
Status
Completed
Date
Updated August 2005
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the New Mexico State University Library Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Branson Hall
PO Box 30006
MSC 3475
Las Cruces New Mexico 88003 USA