Photographs from William C. Schnepple scrapbooks

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Photographs from the William C. Schnepple Scrapbooks (History Library AC552). The photographs, dating roughly from the 1870s to the 1950s, picture mostly family members and buildings in Santa Fe. Nearly all photographs are identified. William C. Schnepple, born 10 March 1879 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was raised in Santa Fe, where his (German immigrant) father Frederick Schnepple (aka Fritz Robert Gustave Schnepple) was a merchant and shopkeeper on Guadalupe Street. He enlisted in the army at age 19 in 1898 and joined Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. He married Emma Bandelier, a niece of Adolph Bandelier, on 7 December 1902 in Santa Fe. Their son William Wallace and daughter Lucile were born in Espanola, New Mexico. William Charles Schnepple moved to Burbank, California in 1942 where he remained active in Rough Riders history and reunions until his death in 1957.

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