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OLD PHOTOS BY, AND WITH, MISCELLANEOUS FRIENDS, ALBUM ONE, 1973-2010

 File — Box: 183, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents

15 pages in this album with many snapshots, lots of them pretty bad, but they had connections I didn't want to throw away. I've tried to identify each photo by writing on the back of it. Page 1: Letter from Diana Simon, lawyer when Reies Tijerina sued "Milagro"...she visited Taos with her husband, July 1990, 2 photos. Page 2: Dave, John, Luke, and Tania Nichols in Colorado Springs beside my Dad's Chevy Impala, July 1973, 1 photo. Page 3: Sylvia Landfair, JTN, Michael Martin Murphey, Mary Murphey at Mary and Michael's wedding, undated, 1 photo--Michael is a well known country and cowboy singer. Page 4: 1 photo of JTN with Sam Orr's L.A. buddy at Sam's 60th birthday party, Rodarte, NM, August 1999...also 2 photos of me with Gunnison friend, Rod Rogers and his grandkids, August 1999. Page 5: 2 photos of me with Angela and Bruno Speziale, friends from Italy, at my Taos house on Valverde Street, summer 1993. Page 6: 1 B&W large photo of me on Taos Mesa taken by Sandy Stephens, 1998. Page 7: A note from Wesley Hershey, 1986, and 2 photos, of me reflected in a woman's glasses (1986), and of me feeding gulls on beach at Bodega Bay, CA, photo by Sandy Stephens (August 1998). Page 8: 2 color panorama photos of 1991 mesa by Stephanie Sax, and 2 B&W photos of me, one by an unknown photographer (between 1985-1989) and the other by Jim Harris (undated), who taught at NM Junior College in Hobbs and corresponded with me for ages. Page 9: 2 photos of me alone and me with Lynn Nichols of Denver (she was married to my cousin Floyd Nichols), and her sister Julia Erickson, Taos in June 2008; and 1 photo of me with John Randall at Antiquarian Bookseller's in Santa Fe, date unknown. Page 10: 4 photos--me with Thom Collins in Taos Booskhop, 1999; and me with Rudy Anaya in Taos Bookshop, 1999; and me at Arizona Book Fair in Phoenix (March 2000) making a fist; and me with Demetria Martínez at that Arizona Book Fair, March 2000. Page 11: 4 B&W photos of me with Mary Marphisee at Solano Drive in Albuquerque, Spring 1992, when I was teaching at UNM. Page 12: 4 B&W photos of me on Solano Drive, Spring 1992, with Mary Marphisee and Lisa Newton (a student in my "Writer and Society" class at UNM), and 1 color photo of me at dinner in Burque with Mary Marphisee and Jan Black during Jan's birthday, March 1992 (Jan owned the Solano Drive houses Mary and I lived in). Page 13: 2 photos of me speaking at anti-Rumsfeld rally at Bareiss Gallery in Taos, 2004; and one B&W photo of me by Sharon Niederman in Burque, spring 1992. Page 14: One large B&W photo of me on Taos mesa with McSavaney Photo Workshop participants (undated, but hadda be an August between 1988-1998!); and 1 large color photo of me walking on the mesa (in December 1992) by a New Mexican photographer named Steve somebody (I forget his name, but the paper published a big article on the mesa around that date). Page 15: 1 color photo of me hiking up above Williams Lake taken by Maureen McCoy in August 1996. Page 16: 4 color photos of Tim Sandlin, my Jackson Hole Wyoming novelist pal, and his wife, Carol Chesney, at the Taos west mesa Sheep Corral Overlook, September 1997. Page 17: 2 color photos of Jan and Nasario García and JTN, November 2010.

Dates

  • 1973-2010

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.)

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