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Albright Art Parlors Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0037
Scope and Content This collection consists of portraits of local dignitaries, politicians and people of note which were produced in the Albright Art Parlors studios in Santa Fe and Albuquerque between 1880 and 1912 by resident operators. These portraits (on cabinet, boudoir and some larger card stock) offer a glimpse into the people and styles current in New Mexico during this period of time.
Dates: 1880 - 1912

Ann Baumann Trust Collection of Gustave Baumann Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0076
Scope and Content This collection contains the photographs of the Ann Baumann Trust, which was created by Ann Baumann, daughter of New Mexico artist Gustave Baumann, in order to promote Baumann’s artistic legacy and preserve his archival materials. The collection contains prints, color slides and transparencies, negatives, and photo albums documenting Baumann's life, artwork, and legacy. The collection consists primarily of Gustave Baumann’s photographs, including professional portraits...
Dates: 1860s-2012; Majority of material found in 1895-1974

Ben Wittick Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAC 038
Scope and Content The Ben Wittick Photograph Collection is one of the most significant extant collections of work by photographer Ben Wittick. Substantial in size, with over 1,000 glass plate negatives alone, this collection is one of the major holdings in the Photo Archives. Wittick's photographs are of historical importance and represent one of the most important visual collections documenting early New Mexico and the Southwest. In addition to stereocards, boudoir cards, cabinet cards, prints, and negatives...
Dates: 1879 - 1903

Benjamin Morris Thomas Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAC 025
Scope and Content Collection consists of some 300 early images by various photographers of primarily southwestern Indian subjects, printed in a variety of formats and sizes (cabinet cards, stereos, boudoir cards, etc.) from the 1870s through 1912. Original collection by B.M. Thomas was added to by his son Bradley M. Thomas following Benjamin’s death. Photographs are itemized by negative number followed title or description. Mnay of these images have been posted on the Palace of the Governors Photo Archive online...
Dates: 1863 - 1928; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Carl Newland Werntz Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PAC 035
Scope and Content Important collection of original photographs of Hopi, Apache, Havasupai peoples, Fort Apache and other locations, dated circa 1900. As an established artist, Werntz had a highly sophisticated approach to photography. No accession records for this collection. The work of William H. Simpson somehow seems to be tied to this collection but there is no paper trail to verify that.
Dates: 1900

Cartes de Visite

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Identifier: PAPF-004
Scope and Content This record is used to track catalogued cdvs not described in another collection. A carte de visite is a card-mounted photograph which usually measures 2.5 x 4 inches.The collection consists of carte de visite photographs dating primarily from the 1860s to the 1910s. The collection consists entirely of original prints. Images measure approximately 2.5 x 4 inches (or the inverse). Most are albumen prints mounted on cards bearing imprints of the photographers either on the...
Dates: 1851 to present

Cary Herz Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAC 047
Scope and Content This extensive collection comprises the working career of Cary Herz over the course of more than 25 years in New Mexico. It includes original prints and negatives, color slides, book manuscripts, Compact Discs, video tapes, and some documents and correspondence. The majority of the documents and correspondence are housed in the Fray Angelico Chavez History Libray in the New Mexico History Museum. Her women's movement and female athelete material, completed before she moved to New Mexico, is...
Dates: 1984 - 2008

Charles F. Lummis Collection

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Identifier: PAC 022
Scope and Content Consisting primarily of cyanotype images, the bulk of photos between 1888-1894 documents pueblo life and New Mexico, Latin America, archaeology, Bandelier family
Dates: 1884 - 1925

Chino Copper Company of Santa Rita and Hurley, New Mexico

 Collection
Identifier: PAC 049
Scope and Content The Santa Rita Mine collection consists of over 200 negatives and 400 photographs from postcard size to 8" x 10". Most of the material is dated and identified. The majority of the material is pre-1920. Topics range from engineering and structural to photos of assay shop, town views, ball teams, railroad and people involved in mining activities. This finding aid includes a partial listing images which have been assigned unique numbers to identify the various subjects in the collection. The...
Dates: 1910 - 1940; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Aaron B. Craycraft Photographs

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Identifier: PAAC-0021
Scope and Content This small but invaluable collection of prints and negatives provides unique views of Santa Fe and the northern Pueblos, as well as some portraits and other New Mexico scenes.
Dates: 1890 - 1918; Majority of material found within 1904 - 1915

Dana B. Chase Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PAC 031
Scope and Content Collection of approximately 230 images by D.B. Chase or his “operators”. Includes photographs of Santa Fe, Pueblo Indians and miscellaneous New Mexico scenes dated 1884 - 1892.
Dates: 1884 - 1892

Randall Davey Estate Photograph Collection

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Identifier: PAAC-0079
Content Description Collection of photographs from the Randall Davey Estate in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Included are gelatin silver prints, cartes-de-visite, cabinet cards, tintypes, negatives, slides and postcards related to Randall V. Davey's artwork and life in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as to members of the Holt and Cullum families.
Dates: 1869-1985

De Lancey W. Gill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAC 033
Scope and Content This small collection of 47 images are all contact prints, made using the high-quality platinotype (platinum) process, which results in very "expressive" images due to its long tonal range. These prints represent his simplest and most direct portrait photographs of Indians visiting Washington in full ceremonial costume, sometimes borrowed.
Dates: 1894 - 1930

Harry H. Dorman Photograph Collection

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Identifier: PAAC-0003
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of photographic images and snapshots of Santa Fe and northern New Mexico circa 1900-1920. Images include the Penitentiary, Fiesta, and images of Pueblos. Also documented are people, daily life, and street scenes. Of particular interest are many images of buildings, homes, and adobe architecture. Other subjects include various cities, including Albuquerque and Taos. The collection consists entirely of original prints. Dorman is likely the creator of some images,...
Dates: 1901 - 1920

Charles Farnsworth Photographs of the Mexican Punitive Expedition

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Identifier: PAAC-0082
Scope and Contents / Alcance y Contenido This collection consists of 252 photographs and postcards from the Mexican Punitive Expedition led by Gen. John Pershing between 1916 and 1917 in the U.S. – Mexico borderland after Pancho Villa’s raid in Columbus, New Mexico. Most of the photographs show military encampments, troops, officers and their wives, and Gen. Charles Farnsworth during the expedition. The collection also includes photographs of the 16th U.S. Infantry in El Paso, Texas in 1914. These photographs and postcards were taken...
Dates: 1912 - 1918

George Wharton James and Frederic Hamer Maude Collection

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Identifier: PAC 062
Scope and Content The primary set of material in this collection includes the cover, an introductory page, and 32 photographs from the book The Mokis and their Snake Dance by George Wharton James. The photographs, probably on collodion printing-out paper, are mounted on thin matte board pages. The book pages, now separated, each have three holes on the left margin. The book was published by Maude and Company, Photographers, Los Angeles, a company owned by the photographer and...
Dates: 1895 – ca. 1904

H. (Harold) Joe Waldrum Collection

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Identifier: PAC 032
Scope and Content Approximately 7950 SX-Polaroid Prints. The Polaroids are grouped into subjects established by Waldrum. Most are identified and numbered, a few are not. The numbering system is idiosyncratic at best. A small u after a number denotes unsigned. Many of the Polaroids have been signed on the front in pencil. Many are identified on the verso, written in pencil in Waldrum’s handwriting. Also on the verso are a series of letters and numbers and, often in the lower right hand corner, another number that...
Dates: 1974-2003

Harold D. Walter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAC 055
Scope and Content The collection was acquired in 1992 (HP.1992.54) and 1993 (HP.1993.11) as gifts from the estate of Harold D. Walter's wife, Mae Walter. It includes several hundred black and white prints and negatives and 35mm color slides of New Mexico and Colorado landscapes and buildings, governors of New Mexico and other individuals. Also includes a scrap book contaning 8x10 b and w silver gelatin prints, all taken in New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico during the January, 1940 re-creation of the Coronado...
Dates: 1936 - 1958; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Anna L. Hase collection of Santa Fe photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0092
Scope and Contents The collection includes 89 4" x 5" copy prints of black & white photographs of Santa Fe between approximately 1901 and 1926 and attributed to Anna L. Hase. The images feature exteriors of private residences, commercial buildings, street scenes, the Santa Fe Plaza, churches, hospitals, forts, and people.
Dates: ca. 1901-1926

Helen Blumenschein Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAC 008
Scope and Content This is a minimally processed collection of primarily personal family photographs, many not identified. There are an abundant number of photos of Helen G. Blumenschein, her artist parents Ernest and Mary, including her time in the military, her family, and travels. There are negatives for which there are no prints and vice versa. Some notation on envelopes and backs of photos.
Dates: 1909 - 1989

Henry T. Hiester and Melander Brothers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAC 026
Scope and Content This collection of work by Hiester and other photographers includes work proofs, glass wet-plate negatives but is comprised mostly of stereoscopic views of New Mexico scenes, Pueblos, and Indian portraits. Many of these images have not been seen or used in the photo archives prior to the compilation of this finding aid in May of 2010, although there are some duplicates by Nicholas Brown, Melander Brothers and others. Due to the lack of accession records or inventory regarding the...
Dates: 1873 - 1878

Edgar L. Hewett Photographs and Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-056
Scope and Content Collection of photographs, photographic negatives, photo albums, postcards, and ephemera collected by Edgar Lee Hewett. Content includes travels, archaeological expeditions, mementoes, and images of friends and family. While the collection is closely associated with Hewett, materials given to or collected by Hewett are intefiled with material he created. Additionally, other collections material from the School for Advanced Research, the Archaeological Institute of America, and the...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1906 - 1940; 1860 - 1959

Hollenback Family Photo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0096
Scope and Content The bulk of the collection consists of family photos, including studio portraits and snapshots of varying sizes and formats. The majority of these date from about the 1860s to the 1940s; however, the collection also includes photos, negatives, notes, and a partial collection inventory made by historian and author Mary J. Cook in the 1980s as part of her research into Amelia Hollenback. Of special interest are the large number of cartes de visite, tintypes, and cabinet cards contained in the...
Dates: 1861 - 1986; Majority of material found within ca. 1870s-ca. 1940s

Jack Parsons Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAC 045
Scope and Content The Jack Parsons Collection encompasses the photographers entire career (over 50,000 photographs) and will continue to have ongoing contributions to the archive for years to come.
Dates: 1973 - 2011

James R. Riddle Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAC 051
Scope and Content This collection is comprised of cabinet and boudoir cards, a few stereoviews and viewing album pages with photos on both sides. All images are of New Mexico subjects. If album pages have single image they are 9 1/2" x 15", if four images, each is 4 1/2" x 7 1/2".
Dates: 1880 - 1890; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

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Chapman, Kenneth Milton, 1875-1968 1
Chase, D. B. (Dana B.), 1848-1897 1
Cockrell, Thomas J. 1
Craycraft, Aaron B., 1856-1918 1
Cullum, Kate H. 1
Davey, Randall, 1887-1964 1
Dorman, H.H. (Henry Howard), 1872-1960 1
Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915 1
Fierro, Rodolfo, 1880-1915 1
Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940 1
Heister, H. T. (Henry T.), -1895 1
Herz, Cary, 1947-2008 1
Hewett, Edgar L. (Edgar Lee), 1865-1946 1
Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel, 1753-1811 1
Hillers, John K., 1843-1925 1
Hollenback, Amelia, 1877-1969 1
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 1
James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 1
Kaadt, Christian G., 1868-1905 1
Kemp, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1868-1948 1
Kemp, Josephine A. (Agnes Sparrow), 1868-1941 1
Lotz, Herb 1
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928 1
Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer) 1
Melander & Bro 1
New Mexico Magazine 1
Orozco, Pascual, 1882-1915 1
Ortiz, Frank V., 1926-2005 1
Palace of the Governors (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1
Parkhurst, T. Harmon 1
Parsons, Jack, 1939- 1
Sarkis Shmavonian Rare Books (Berkeley, Calif.) 1
Schmidt, Henry A. 1
Scott, Winfield, 1863-1942 1
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915 1
Thomas, B. M. (Benjamin Morris), 1843-1892 1
Vroman, A. C. (Adam Clark), 1856-1916 1
Waite, C. B. (Charles Betts), 1861-1927 1
Waldrum, Harold Joe 1
Warren, Nancy Hunter, 1932-2019 1
Wendall, Frank 1
Werntz, Carl, 1874-1944 1
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