Harold W. Stowell Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: PICT-000-505
Scope and Content
Photograph collection consists of pictures of people, buildings, and landscapes, mostly taken in New Mexico. Motorcycling in New Mexico is a special focus of the collection, which also includes many professional shots of Albuquerque business establishments, including African American business people, group portraits of railroad employees and administrators at recognition ceremonies, and of local social events (such as weddings and anniversary celebrations). Others of special interest are modern copies of photos showing the Territorial Fair Parade of 1892, the N.T. Armijo building (1892), the Commercial Club (1900), University of New Mexico's Hodgin and Hadley Halls (1902), and a reproduction of an 1880 photo by Ben Wittick of a locomotive.
Dates
- Majority of material found within 1920-1969
Creator
- Stowell, H. W. (Harold W.) (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
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
Stowell was a machinist who worked for the Santa Fe Railroad and lived in Albuquerque, N.M. In addition to his vocation he was an amateur photographer, free lance writer, motorcyclist, and inventor. Some of his mechanical articles were published in New Mexico magazine and in motorcycling magazines. He also had a regular column in Santa Fe magazine, a magazine for railroad employees.
Extent
597 plus items (2 boxes) : 597 photographic prints
Abstract
Photograph collection consists of pictures of people, buildings, and landscapes, most taken in New Mexico. Motorcycling in New Mexico is a special focus of the collection, which also includes many professional shots of Albuquerque business establishments.
Arrangement
Folders arranged by subject, followed by three additions in separate folders.
Physical Location
B2. Shelved by Pictorial Number.
Separated Material
Photographs separated from the H. W. Stowell Papers.
- Albuquerque (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Business enterprises -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- Pictorial works
- Landscapes -- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Locomotives -- Pictorial works
- Motorcycles -- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Motorcycling -- Southwest, New -- Pictorial works
- Parades -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque -- Pictorial works
- Photographs.
- Pictorial works
- Railroads -- Employees -- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Restaurants -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque -- Pictorial works
- Weddings -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque -- Pictorial works
- Wittick, Ben, 1845-1903
Creator
- Stowell, H. W. (Harold W.) (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Harold W. Stowell Photograph Collection, 1920-1969
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Pictorial Collections Staff
- Date
- © 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
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