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EARLY SLIDES, 1960-1979

 File — Box: 171, slide-box: 1

Scope and Contents

  1. 1. In Taos County--Cabresto Lake, Heart Lake, Latir Lakes, Oct. 1973. This was magical country discovered soon after my arrival in Taos. (19 slides)
  2. 2. My Upper Ranchitos yard and back field, Oct. 1973. (2 slides)
  3. 3. JTN (John T. Nichols) trip to Latir Lakes, alone, Oct. 1973. Trout, aspens, Latir and Cabresto Lake, a deer on the trail. I camped out at Heart Lake and the Latirs.
  4. (20 slides)
  5. 4. & 5. Horseshoe Lake and Lost Lake, Wheeler Wilderness, John and Ruby Nichols camping trip, Oct. 1973. Ruby climbing up to Wheeler Peak ridge carting lots of awkward equipment. My we were young! (25 slides)
  6. 6. & 7. Mike Kimmel and JTN at Latir Lakes, Aug. 1974. One of the great trips of our lives, topped by catching cutthroat lunkers at 7th Latir Lake. (40 slides and one great b & w photo)
  7. 8. & 9. Ruby, Luke, and Tania Nichols, and JTN on Little Rio Grande (Rio Grande del Rancho) River near Taos, Oct. 1974. Fishing. (32 slides)
  8. 10. Mike Kimmel and JTN, trip to Bear Lake, Wheeler Wilderness, Oct. 1974. Lousy pictures that bring back powerful memories. Like Mike doing a Philadelphia Mummer's Strut in some steep scree near the Bear Lake saddle. (13 slides)
  9. 11. Ruby, Luke, John at 4th Latir Lake, Oct. 1975. Snow falling on our tent and campfire. Some lovely photos. (13 slides)
  10. 12. Mike Kimmel and JTN at Mastic (Wm. Floyd Estate on South Shore of Long Island, NY), Dec. 1981 or Jan. 1982. Also Mike and Alan Howard (my 2 best friends) and JTN in New York, Jan. 1982. I'd gone east for sneak preview of the Costa-Gavras film I worked on, "Missing," in Philadelphia, with my girl, Sylvia Landfair. Mike and Alan came to Philly for preview. Then I went up to N.Y. (15 slides)
  11. 13. Miscellaneous Early Slides, Oct-Nov. 1979. Ruby, Luke, Tania, and Mike Kimmel in Albuquerque; our VW bus full of wood in Taos. (1 photo of VW with wood is in A Fragile Beauty.) (7 slides)

Dates

  • 1960-1979

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research, however, researchers must sign consent form prior to gaining access to materials. Calavera drawings, proofs, and etchings as well as "little diaries" (Boxes 14, 125, 126, 129, 142) are housed in high security and may require up to 24 hours for retrieval. Enlarged photocopies and typed transcriptions of "little diaries" in Box 142 are located in Box 184.

Extent

From the Collection: 184 boxes (172 cu. ft.)

General

NOT MANY INTERESTING PHOTOS (EXCEPT TO ME). 16 SLEEVES. ALL SQUARE CORNERED. The first 3 sleeves are marked A, B, and C. A) contains 8 slides I took of bullfights on July 9, 1960, in Pamplona, Spain, during the feria of San Fermín. Sleeves B) and C) contain slides of Ruby and my honeymoon in Maine, 1965; a few shots of us in N.Y. around that time; a couple of pictures of us in N.Y.; and, finally, 2 almost illegible slides of us in Taos, NM, 1971.

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