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This collection is comprised of contemporary digital photographs of Route 66 buildings and roadscapes in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Scope and Contents Series 1 (Exhibition Prints - Photographs) contains three boxes of large photographic prints produced for exhibition purposes. They range from 11 x 14”, 16 x 24”, and 20 x 28”. Box 1 comprises of thirty-six 11 x 14” exhibition prints, divided by state and arranged in latitudinal order of cities (east-west). Box 2 contains twenty-eight 20 x 28” prints, divided by state, and two uncut 11 x 14” prints. Within Box 3, there are three 20 x 28” foam core and matted exhibition prints and a folder...

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This collection contains photographs from Louise Brock Rapaport’s photo album. Louise Rapaport, and later her parents Mae and Otto Brock, owned the Frontier Trading Post, later renamed the Brock’s Bluewater Trading Post, in Bluewater, New Mexico. The photo album focuses on the trading post, the Brock family, Navajo Indians, festivals, Monument Valley and carrot harvesting.

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This collection of undated matchbooks are graphically notable and advertise businesses, primarily motels, on Route 66 from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California.

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A photographic study taken along Route 66 in New Mexico and Arizona. Artifacts of the tourist trade, including signs, shops, gas stations, and motels, are the focus of this collection.