Scope and Contents This collection contains the photographs of Sam Adams, a Santa Fe-based amateur photographer who produced art photographs of a variety of subjects, primarily between 1990 and 2012; a small set of material (photographs taken by Adams as a young man in Italy in 1957) lies outside this date range. The collection consists primarily of 35mm black-and-white negatives, contact sheets, and 11 x 14-inch selenium-toned gelatin silver prints, as well as a smaller number of 8 x 10-inch and 6 x 9-inch...

Abstract

Peter T. Furst (1922-2015), a cultural anthropologist, college professor, and researcher, photographed and collected images of pre-Columbian and colonial Latin American, Native American, and Asian cultures and objects, as well as flora and fauna specimens. Furst used these images for his teaching and research. Collection also includes photographs by his wife, and some commercially produced slides.