Ron Collins photographs
Collection
Identifier: Ms-0366
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs of Cloudcroft, New Mexico, El Paso, Texas and Mexico. Most photographs are views of Cloudcroft, showing scenery, roads, camps and the Cloudcroft lodge around 1920. Photographs were shot by El Paso photographer Jim Alexander. Included are 11 panoramic photographs, also made by Alexander, of El Paso area scenes. A postcard from June 13, 1909 shows the burning of the lodge at Cloudcroft. Other images show the YMCA cottage, Camp Hughey, the army camp, Ashen Grove, Chipmunk Ave., and Box Canyon. There are two pictures of catacombs, one ornately decorated with bones, and another identified as Guanajuato, Mexico
The panoramic photographs include pictures of the Rio Grande in El Paso, James Canon Road in Cloudcroft, High Rolls, New Mexico, and the El Paso High School Reserve Officers' Training Corps Band from 1923.
Dates
- 1899-1939
Biographical / Historical
Nothing is known about Ron Collins.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (1 Box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Photographs mostly of the Cloudcroft, New Mexico area around 1920, made by El Paso photographer Jim Alexander.
Processing Information
Updated by Cassie McClure, October 2005
- Title
- Guide to the Ron Collins photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Cassie McClure
- Date
- October 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