Dana B. Chase Photographs

Collection

Identifier: PAAC-0031

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Collection of approximately 230 images by D.B. Chase or his “operators”. Includes photographs of Santa Fe, Pueblo Indians and miscellaneous New Mexico scenes dated 1884 - 1892.

Dates

1884 - 1892

Creator

Chase, D. B. (Dana B.), 1848-1897 (Person)

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to researchers on a request basis only, pending approval of request to view original material.

Copy Restrictions

User responsible for all copyright compliance. Permission to publish must be obtained from Photo Archives. Form to request permission available at: https://www.nmhistorymuseum.org/collections/photo-archives/order-photos

Biographical Information

Not much is know about the life of Dana B. Chase, a pioneer photographer in New Mexico. Born in Maine in 1848, he operated studios in Trinidad (primarily) and other Colorado locations from 1873 well into the 1880s. In 1884 he took over the Santa Fe plaza studio of William Henry Brown, using the services of two “operators,” W.L. Fetter and E.B Headley. He married and divorced twice. He was divorced from his first wife, Ella, with whom he had four children, in 1888. He married his second wife, Belle, in Santa Fe in 1888 and divorced her in 1897. He sold his Santa Fe gallery to photographer Thomas J. Curran in 1892. He died in 1897.