Creede, Colorado, 1976-1978
Item — Box: 5, Folder: 10
Identifier: 000-464-0433 -- 0435
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The original accession contains the photographs for the Taos Pueblo Photographic and Oral History Project. Included are working prints, selected archival prints, and a unique bound album compiled by the photographer containing selected photographs from this project. There are also working prints of rural Colorado and New Mexico, and the people of the Ute tribe. Some of these images are unpublished, while others have been published by the author in her works: Eye of the West, When Buffalo Free the Mountains: A Ute Indian Journey, Taos Pueblo, and The Grass Roots People: An American Requiem.
Addition I contains series 1-9.
Series 1: Taos Pueblo (1985-1988)
Series 1 consists of negatives, contact sheets, slides, and loose color and black-and-white photographs of Taos Pueblo people, as well as social and cultural events and activities. People pictured include nationally-recognized sculptor, John Suazo; drum maker, Red Shirt Reyna; fashion designer, Patricia Michaels; and elders, Maria Mondragon, Uncle John Concha, and Frank Martinez. This series also contains photographs of Taos Pueblo Pow Wow, weddings, graduations, and house work. Also included are landscape and pueblo views. Finally, this series contains notes for the book Taos Pueblo by Nancy Wood.
Series 2: Ute Indians (1976-1979)
Series 2 consists of negatives, contact sheets, slides, and loose color and black-and-white photographs of the Ute Indian Tribe in Utah and Colorado. Ute ceremonies, such as the Bear Dance, are pictured. As well, this series includes images of elders, children (the Whyte foster children, for example), youth graduating from high school, work activities (such as cattle ranching, making fry bread, and painting pottery), and other social and cultural activities.
Series 3: Grassroots People (1976 - circa 1980s)
Series 3 consists of negatives and proofs for Nancy Wood’s book, Grassroots People. The images in the series are mainly of people and places in New Mexico (i.e. Pie Town, cowboys, pie-makers, and homesteaders) and southern Colorado (i.e. Kremmling, La Jara, Creede, Rico, cowboys, miners, and ranchers). Subjects include elderly rancher, Olive Truelson, “coyote killer” Parl Jackson, Robert and Ocie Young and their children, Nancy Wood’s children and then-husband, rancher John Brittingham, and others.
Series 4: Eye of the West (1970s - circa 1986)
Series 4 consists of image proofs for Nancy Wood’s book, Eye of the West. The photographs in this series are organized by page number of the book. Subjects in this series include rancher, Minford Beard, and his family engaged in various ranch activities, as well as portraits, small towns in Colorado such as Trinidad, Antonito, Victor, and some of the people in the justice system there: Victor police chief, Eddie Roy, and judges, Margaret Tekavee and August Menzel. Some of the subjects and locations in the Eye of the West series overlap with those of the Grassroots series.
Series 5: Europe (1978, 1994)
Series 5 consists of slides from a European trip Wood took in 1978. Slides include images of Germany, Holland, France, and Italy. Also included are images of Wood’s trip to Ireland in 1994. Here, abstract images of Irish buildings, docks, boats, ropes, windows, and doorways are pictured. Also included are images of Nancy Wood in Ireland and personal papers (brochures, tickets, receipts, itineraries, etc.) related to Wood’s trip.
Series 6: Japan (1999)
Series 6 consists of an album of photographs of Nancy Wood’s trip to Japan in 1999. Pictured are Wood’s talks, book signings, and exhibits in Japan as well as images of Wood’s personal travels in the country.
Series 7: Personal Photographs (1937-1996, 2003)
Series 7 consists of Nancy Wood’s personal family photographs. Wood is pictured with grandchildren and older family members and friends. There are old photographs from 1937 and on, of Nancy Wood and her siblings, parents, and various people in her life. There is an index of these images in the back, with descriptions.
Series 8: Miscellaneous Pictorial Works (undated, 1967-1980s)
Series 8 consists of miscellaneous color and black-and-white negatives and color slides of friends and family members, including a woman named Lisa Cross, a woman named Cynthia, landscapes from the Yukon, Yankee Boy Basin, San Luis Valley, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and the sand dunes in Scituate, Massachusetts. Also included are proofs of headshots of Governor Bill Richardson. Most of these negatives are unlabeled and without dates. Most of the slides are labeled and dated around 1980. The slides and negatives do not fit in with the rest of the series, or are unlabeled and difficult to assign to a particular series.
Series 9: Myron Wood Photographs (1958, 1969)
Series 9 consists of photographs taken by Myron Wood, who was Nancy Wood’s second husband. Included are images from 1958 of Fort Carson, Colorado before the Army base was built, a series of photographs from 1969 entitled Colorado: Big Mountain Country, and a 1969 photograph of Myron and Nancy sitting next to a table of photographs.
Addition I contains series 1-9.
Series 1: Taos Pueblo (1985-1988)
Series 1 consists of negatives, contact sheets, slides, and loose color and black-and-white photographs of Taos Pueblo people, as well as social and cultural events and activities. People pictured include nationally-recognized sculptor, John Suazo; drum maker, Red Shirt Reyna; fashion designer, Patricia Michaels; and elders, Maria Mondragon, Uncle John Concha, and Frank Martinez. This series also contains photographs of Taos Pueblo Pow Wow, weddings, graduations, and house work. Also included are landscape and pueblo views. Finally, this series contains notes for the book Taos Pueblo by Nancy Wood.
Series 2: Ute Indians (1976-1979)
Series 2 consists of negatives, contact sheets, slides, and loose color and black-and-white photographs of the Ute Indian Tribe in Utah and Colorado. Ute ceremonies, such as the Bear Dance, are pictured. As well, this series includes images of elders, children (the Whyte foster children, for example), youth graduating from high school, work activities (such as cattle ranching, making fry bread, and painting pottery), and other social and cultural activities.
Series 3: Grassroots People (1976 - circa 1980s)
Series 3 consists of negatives and proofs for Nancy Wood’s book, Grassroots People. The images in the series are mainly of people and places in New Mexico (i.e. Pie Town, cowboys, pie-makers, and homesteaders) and southern Colorado (i.e. Kremmling, La Jara, Creede, Rico, cowboys, miners, and ranchers). Subjects include elderly rancher, Olive Truelson, “coyote killer” Parl Jackson, Robert and Ocie Young and their children, Nancy Wood’s children and then-husband, rancher John Brittingham, and others.
Series 4: Eye of the West (1970s - circa 1986)
Series 4 consists of image proofs for Nancy Wood’s book, Eye of the West. The photographs in this series are organized by page number of the book. Subjects in this series include rancher, Minford Beard, and his family engaged in various ranch activities, as well as portraits, small towns in Colorado such as Trinidad, Antonito, Victor, and some of the people in the justice system there: Victor police chief, Eddie Roy, and judges, Margaret Tekavee and August Menzel. Some of the subjects and locations in the Eye of the West series overlap with those of the Grassroots series.
Series 5: Europe (1978, 1994)
Series 5 consists of slides from a European trip Wood took in 1978. Slides include images of Germany, Holland, France, and Italy. Also included are images of Wood’s trip to Ireland in 1994. Here, abstract images of Irish buildings, docks, boats, ropes, windows, and doorways are pictured. Also included are images of Nancy Wood in Ireland and personal papers (brochures, tickets, receipts, itineraries, etc.) related to Wood’s trip.
Series 6: Japan (1999)
Series 6 consists of an album of photographs of Nancy Wood’s trip to Japan in 1999. Pictured are Wood’s talks, book signings, and exhibits in Japan as well as images of Wood’s personal travels in the country.
Series 7: Personal Photographs (1937-1996, 2003)
Series 7 consists of Nancy Wood’s personal family photographs. Wood is pictured with grandchildren and older family members and friends. There are old photographs from 1937 and on, of Nancy Wood and her siblings, parents, and various people in her life. There is an index of these images in the back, with descriptions.
Series 8: Miscellaneous Pictorial Works (undated, 1967-1980s)
Series 8 consists of miscellaneous color and black-and-white negatives and color slides of friends and family members, including a woman named Lisa Cross, a woman named Cynthia, landscapes from the Yukon, Yankee Boy Basin, San Luis Valley, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and the sand dunes in Scituate, Massachusetts. Also included are proofs of headshots of Governor Bill Richardson. Most of these negatives are unlabeled and without dates. Most of the slides are labeled and dated around 1980. The slides and negatives do not fit in with the rest of the series, or are unlabeled and difficult to assign to a particular series.
Series 9: Myron Wood Photographs (1958, 1969)
Series 9 consists of photographs taken by Myron Wood, who was Nancy Wood’s second husband. Included are images from 1958 of Fort Carson, Colorado before the Army base was built, a series of photographs from 1969 entitled Colorado: Big Mountain Country, and a 1969 photograph of Myron and Nancy sitting next to a table of photographs.
Dates
- 1976-1978
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: uncounted items (54 boxes) : uncounted color and black-and-white photographic prints, slides, contact sheets, negatives
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Wood, Nancy C. (Person)
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
cswrref@unm.edu
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
cswrref@unm.edu