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Margaret E. (Laird) Voetter collection of photographs of New Mexico, Oklahoma and Nebraska

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0095

Content Description

The collection includes photographs of boarding schools, people, and places taken during Margaret E. Laird's time as teacher at Indians Schools in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Lawton, Oklahoma, and Rice Station, Arizona. Also included are images of people and school buildings in Santee, Nebraska and Fort Mojave, Arizona. C.C. Stotz, a photographer based in El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, created some of the images; the other photographers are not identified. The prints are gelatin silver prints and cyanotypes.

Item inventory including POG PA negative numbers available in the Photo Archives shared drive / Archival Collections folder.

Dates

  • circa 1895-1905

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Margaret Eleanor Laird was born on January 17, 1870 in Waverly, Iowa. She was a teacher in boarding schools for Native American children in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Lawton, Oklahoma, and Rice Station, Arizona, between approximately 1895-1905. She changed her last name to Voetter after marriage. Margaret Voetter died on April 2, 1958, in San Diego, California.

Extent

7 folders

Language of Materials

English

Title
Margaret E. (Laird) Voetter collection of photographs of New Mexico, Oklahoma and Nebraska
Status
Completed
Author
AN
Date
2024
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the NMHM Palace of the Governors Photo Archives Repository

Contact:
113 Lincoln Ave.
Santa Fe NM 87501 USA