Buildings, 1870-1920
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
Collection consists of images related to the Maxwell Land Grant in Colfax County, New Mexico. Portraits of persons closely associated with the grant, such as the Maxwell, Menard, and Beuabien families are included. Various commercial activities that took place in the grant area are shown: ranching, farming, and mining. Collection includes landscapes and townviews in Colfax County. There are a number of good photos of educational, religious, commercial, and residential buildings made of wood, adobe, and stone. Frontier life is depicted in photos of rural dwellings, round-ups, and informal shots of a New Year's party at the Mutz Hotel in Catskill, a series of photos of people tossing snowballs on a snow-covered street. Also shown are the Ute Hotel, Clifton House on the Stockton Ranch, the stagecoach station at Elizabethtown (1896), issuing of rations to Indians at the Aztec mill, the first auto in Raton (1907), a group from the Brotherhood of Boilermakers. Frontier justice is represented by the hangings of Black Jack Ketchum (1901) and Gus Mainser (1885). Of special interest are excellent prints made in the early 1890s showing irrigation projects undertaken on the grant, and mining activities and railroads.
Dates
- 1870-1920
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 211 items (4 boxes) : 175 photographic prints, 36 glass negatives
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Maxwell Land Grant Company (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451