Howard Clinton Tibbitts Pictorial Collection
Collection
Identifier: PICT-2013-001
Scope and Content
This collection is arranged by subject. Tibbitts’ images are of various sites along the Southern Pacific Railroad stops in the American Southwest and Mexico. These negatives include images in Arizona of the Grand Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Canyon de Muerto, Segi Canyon, Ganado, and the Apache Trail. In New Mexico there are images of Laguna Pueblo, Acoma Pueblo, Tesuque Pueblo, Zuni Pueblo, Isleta Pueblo, Bandelier National Monument, Pecos, and Raton. In Mexico the images are of Juarez and Piedras Negras, Coahuila. Also included are images of the Panama-California Exposition, El Paso, Texas, Utah, California, and Nevada. Black-and-white negative is 8.5x6.5 and print is 8x10.
Dates
- 1907-1920
Access Restrictions
The collection is available for research. Researchers are encouraged to use digital copies of glass plates whenever possible. To view the glass plates in this collection, please contact the pictorial archivist.
Copy Restrictions
Duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
Biography
Howard Clinton Tibbitts (1863-1937) was a San Francisco based photographer. Beginning in 1892, and for the next 40 years, Tibbitts worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad, where he photographed American West, Canada, and Mexico. He documented landscapes, towns, industry, agriculture, parks, and public buildings to help promote Southern Pacific’s passenger service.
Tibbitts’ work was shown in Sunset magazine, Southern Pacific Railroad’s magazine. Sunset hoped to change the "wild west" misconception of the American West through images of its beauty and grandeur. The magazine especially featured locations on the Southern Pacific's Sunset line, which ran from New Orleans to San Francisco, including those in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Mexico.
Source: “H.C. Tibbitts Photograph Collection,” Online Archive of California, accessed July 10, 2013.
Tibbitts’ work was shown in Sunset magazine, Southern Pacific Railroad’s magazine. Sunset hoped to change the "wild west" misconception of the American West through images of its beauty and grandeur. The magazine especially featured locations on the Southern Pacific's Sunset line, which ran from New Orleans to San Francisco, including those in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Mexico.
Source: “H.C. Tibbitts Photograph Collection,” Online Archive of California, accessed July 10, 2013.
Extent
82 plus items (5 boxes) : 80 black & white whole glass plate negatives; 1 black & white negative; 1 black & white print, 1 album
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Howard Clinton Tibbitts Pictorial Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives of New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila in Mexico.
Arrangement
The materials in the collection have been arranged by subject.
Physical Location
B2. Shelved by Pictorial Number.
Alternative Format Available
Most of the Howard Clinton Tibbitts Pictorial Collection is available online via New Mexico Digital Collactions.
- Acoma (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Apache Indians -- Pictorial works
- Apache Trail (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Arizona -- Pictorial works
- Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Chimayo (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Chinle (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
- Coahuila (Mexico: State) -- Pictorial works
- Frijoles Canyon (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Ganado (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Indian Market (Santa Fe, N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- Pictorial works
- Isleta Pueblo (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Muerto, Canyon del (Apache County, Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Negatives (Photographs)
- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Palace of the Governors (Santa Fe, N.M.)
- Panama-California Exposition (1915: San Diego, Calif.) -- Pictorial works
- Photographs
- Piedras Negras (Mexico) -- Pictorial works
- Pueblo of Laguna (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Raton Pass (Colo. and N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex) -- Pictorial works
- San Ildefonso Pueblo (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Santa Fe (N.M.) -- Pictorial Works
- Southern Pacific Railroad Company
- Tesuque Pueblo (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Utah -- Great Salt Lake Region -- Pictorial works
- Zuni (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Howard Clinton Tibbitts Pictorial Collection, 1907-1920
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Eileen Hogan
- Date
- © 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
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