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Thomas Branigan Memorial Library photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-0001
 

Thomas Branigan Memorial Library photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-0001
The Thomas Branigan Memorial Library photographs consist of 396 photographic prints depicting people and places in the Las Cruces, New Mexico area during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are scenes of downtown Las Cruces, important Las Cruces personalities, businesses, hotels, homes, agriculture, irrigation canals, surrounding communities, the Organ Mountains, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now New Mexico State University), Apaches, Juarez, Mexico, construction of the Elephant Butte Dam, and the Gen. John J. Pershing Punitive Expedition into Mexico to search for Pancho Villa.
Dates
ca. 1870-1975
Extent
4.50 Linear Feet (6 Boxes)
Language of Materials
English

Images 0357-0383; Las Cruces area scenes

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 3