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Elephant Butte Dam

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:48:22 +0100

Title:
Elephant Butte Dam
New Mexico (NM), Real Photo PM May-03

Main Street

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:48:13 +0100

Title:
Main Street
Roswell New Mexico (NM), Real Photo PM 1938 May-19

Capitol Of New Mexico

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:31:23 +0100

Title:
Capitol Of New Mexico
Santa Fe New Mexico (NM), Divided Back PM Feb-08

Cliff Ruins, Frijoles Canyon

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:29:42 +0100

Title:
Cliff Ruins, Frijoles Canyon
Santa Fe New Mexico (NM), Divided Back unused

Description:
The interesting prehistoric cliff ruins in the Canyon of El Rito de los Frijoles are included in the Bandelier National Monument. The latter is on the Pajarito Plateau west of the Rio Grande River and northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The only approach to the ruins by motor is through a country of exceptional scenic and human interest. Quaint Spanish-American settlements and the inhabited Indian pueblo of San Ildefonso are passed before the beautiful Pajarito canyon country is entered.

Navaho Silversmith, Indian Building

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:29:41 +0100

Title:
Navaho Silversmith, Indian Building
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Divided Back unused

Description:
The Navaho silversmiths learned their art centuries ago from Mexico and there has been comparatively little change in either method or tools, the art being maintained in pure form by them. The geometric forms that prevale in the designs usually have a significance.

Picturesque Village Of Cordova

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:29:41 +0100

Title:
Picturesque Village Of Cordova
Santa Fe New Mexico (NM), Divided Back unused

Description:
The mountain village of Cordova is an old Spanish settlement – - one of the most primitive and fascinating of the numerous little Mexican towns which are found in the country around Santa Fe

Pueblo Women Baking Bread

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:29:40 +0100

Title:
Pueblo Women Baking Bread
New Mexico (NM), Divided Back unused

Description:
These curious, conical-shaped, outdoor ovens used in the Southwest by the Indians and many of the Mexicans were probably borrowed from the Spaniards. They are built of brush, plastered over inside and out with thick coatings of adobe mud, and last, with constant repairs made on them, almost indefinitely. They are built outdoors for several reasons, the main one being to do away with the heat resulting during the warm weather. The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico are a very conservative people. They are absolutely self-supporting, and are citizens of the United States.

Pueblo Of Isleta

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:29:40 +0100

Title:
Pueblo Of Isleta
New Mexico (NM), Divided Back unused

Description:
Isleta is the largest of the Rio Grande pueblos, numbering over one thousand inhabitants. It is pleasantly located on the west bank of the Rio Grande, about thirteen miles south of Albuquerque. The houses and streets of the village are well-kept and clean; the houses are single story in height, and as a consequence the pueblo covers a large area.

Apache Canyon In The Glorietta Mountains

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:29:40 +0100

Title:
Apache Canyon In The Glorietta Mountains
New Mexico (NM), Divided Back unused

Description:
After leaving Las Vegas, the road winds over park slopes to the commanding height of Glorietta Pass (Alt. 7,422 ft.). The downward ride is thru Apache Canyon, where, is 1849 noted battles were fought between Kearny's army and the Mexicans, and in 1862 between Federal and Confederate forces.

The Castaneda

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:29:39 +0100

Title:
The Castaneda
Las Vegas New Mexico (NM), Divided Back unused

Description:
The Castaneda, At Las Vegas, is a long low building, faced with brick, roofed with red tiles and patterned after the old California Missions. It is named for Pedro de Castaneda, a Spanish soldier who was the principal historian of Coronado's expedition into the Southwest in 1540. Las Vegas is the second city in New Mexico in size; is a railroad division point; and in addition to being one of the most important wool shipping points, does a large general business. The name Las Vegas is Spanish, meaning “The Meadows.”

Pueblo Of Santa Domingo

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:29:39 +0100

Title:
Pueblo Of Santa Domingo
New Mexico (NM), Divided Back unused

Description:
Santa Domingo is located on the east bank of the Rio Grande two and a half miles west of the station of Domingo. The streets, four in number, ran at right angles from the river., The houses are never more than two stories high and rather larger than the usual pueblo domicile. The inhabitants, about 650 in number, are very conservative.

An Afternoon Call

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:29:37 +0100

Title:
An Afternoon Call
Pueblo of Laguna New Mexico (NM), Divided Back PM Dec-09

Pueblo De Toas

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:29:36 +0100

Title:
Pueblo De Toas
New Mexico (NM), Divided Back PM 1919 Nov-08

Description:
One of the oldest, largest and most interesting Pueblo Indian villages in America. Showing one off the two great communal houses. Reached from Servilleta, N. M. on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.

Cedar Creek Ski Run

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
Cedar Creek Ski Run
Ruidoso New Mexico (NM), Real Photo unused

Elle Weaving Indian Building

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:43:49 +0100

Title:
Elle Weaving Indian Building
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Stop In Auto Court, On Highway 66 West

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:14:22 +0100

Title:
Stop In Auto Court, On Highway 66 West
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Chrome unused

Description:
Strictly Modern and up to Date For reservations write, R.R. No. 3, Box 245

Fourth Street Looking North

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:14:21 +0100

Title:
Fourth Street Looking North
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Chrome unused

Description:
Shown here on the left is the Simms Building and to the right, The Bank of New Mexico.

U.S. Potash Co

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:14:21 +0100

Title:
U.S. Potash Co
Carlsbad New Mexico (NM), Chrome unused

Description:
Carlsbad is America's leading producer of potash, one of our most vital minerals. Like air and water, potash is vital to life. Without potash our modern day intensive agriculture would not be possible.

Eddy County Court House

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:14:21 +0100

Title:
Eddy County Court House
Carlsbad New Mexico (NM), Chrome unused

Description:
Texas settlers and cowmen, moving west in search of land and grass, settled Eddy County, of which Carlsbad is the county seat. The descendants of many of these early settlers are still living on the cattle spreads their forefathers staked out in the 1870's and 1880's.

Gallup Ceremonial Parade

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:14:21 +0100

Title:
Gallup Ceremonial Parade
Gallup New Mexico (NM), Chrome unused

Description:
The world famous inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial held annually in August brings the Indian Tribes of the Great Southwest into Gallup for their annual reunion

White's City

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:54:41 +0100

Title:
White's City
White's City New Mexico (NM), 4x6 Continental Chrome unused

Description:
Adjacent to Carlsbad Caverns National Park, White's City is the choice of Carlsbad Caverns visitors. Accommodations for over 500 people. The Velvet Garter Restaurant, World famous Million Dollar Museum-fun for the whole family.

Deming Ranchettes

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
Deming Ranchettes
Deming New Mexico (NM), Chrome unused

Description:
New homes in lovely Deming Ranchettes, Deming, New Mexico. The magnificent Florida Mountains are the background.

St. Joseph's Sanatorium

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:57:17 +0100

Title:
St. Joseph's Sanatorium
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), White Border unused

Description:
St. Joseph's Sanatorium, conducted by the Sisters of Charity, is the oldest establishment of its kind in Albuquerque. It has thirty private rooms, forty cottages and two wards with twenty-five beds, for the accommodation of its patrons. It is equipped with every modern convenience.

Religious Procession Leaving The Church

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:41:59 +0100

Title:
Religious Procession Leaving The Church
Santo Domingo New Mexico (NM), Divided Back PM 1912 Jan-15

Description:
As a rule a number of weddings take kplace on the morning of the Corn Dance. These weddings are performed in the church by the Catholic prist. After the ceremony the entire wedding party forms in a parade and proceeds to the plaza where the damce is held. The figure of the Holy virgin is carried under a canopy and deposited in a temporary shrine on the plaza. The priests in their robes and vestments accompany the Procession. The Pueblo Indian is an industrious and intelligent citizen, who alternately labors and then relaxes himself in games and ceremonies. His gods are inumerable ? gods of harvest and of famine, of sun and rain and snow, of peace and war. Etc.,

State Capitol

Fri, 30 May 2008 16:34:11 +0100

Title:
State Capitol
Sante Fe New Mexico (NM), Divided Back unused

Original Oil Paintings

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
Original Oil Paintings
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Chrome PM Sep-25

Description:
Original oil paintings by some of the best known artists of the American Southwest are exhibited son the walls in this hallway in La Placita Dining Rooms on the Old town Plaza in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The hand carved walnut balustrade on the stairway was freighted to New Mexico by wagon train down the Old Santa Fe Trail a century ago. La Placita Dining Rooms occupy the historic Casa de Armijo, a Spanish hacienda which dates back to Albuquerque's founding in 1706 as a Spanish villa near the banks of the Rio Grande.

Acoma Indian Pueblo

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:51:18 +0100

Title:
Acoma Indian Pueblo
Acoma New Mexico (NM), Linen unused

Description:
Acoma, New Mexico, a veritable city of the sky built upon the 78 acre summit of a huge rock with perpendicular sides thrusting up some 350 feet out of a sandy solitude plain. The scene is from the historic old church belfry, looking toward the Enchanted Mesa.

Masonic Temple

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:51:17 +0100

Title:
Masonic Temple
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Linen unused

Description:
The Masonic Orders are especially strong here, having just completed a magnificent temple at a cost of over $75,000. probably the finest fraternal building in this section of the country.

Looking East From Franciscan Hotel, Central Avenue

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:51:17 +0100

Title:
Looking East From Franciscan Hotel, Central Avenue
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Linen unused

Burros Laden With Wood

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:50:50 +0100

Title:
Burros Laden With Wood
Santa Fe New Mexico (NM), Linen unused

Description:
Even in the present day when factories produce farm wagons and other equipment that can be bought by almost anyone, the Mexican still clings tenaciously to the method of transportation used long ago by his fathers. He does not know, nor does he care, whether they lived in a mountainous region where only burros would traverse the trails, or whether they lived where wagons could be used and were to poor to obtain them. The one thing he does know is that his father used burros, and he cares for nothing better or more modern.

Palace Of The Governors

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:50:50 +0100

Title:
Palace Of The Governors
Santa Fe New Mexico (NM), Linen PM 1938 Jul-10

Description:
Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico was built soon after the founding of the village of Santa Fe under the Spanish flag. Was abandoned during the Indian Rebellion on 1680 reconquered by De Vargas in 1692 and remained under Spanish rule until the independence of Mexico in 1821, continued under the Mexican flag until the American occupation of 1846. Under the Confederate flag for two weeks during the Civil War, when it was retaken by the Federal Army, Here Gov. Lew Wallace wrote the latter part of Ben Hur. Was occupied by the various Governors until the building of the present State Capitol. It is now the Museum of the School of American Research.

Occidental Life Building

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:50:49 +0100

Title:
Occidental Life Building
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Linen unused

Description:
Home Office of Occidental Life Insurance Company Erected in 1917

End Of The Santa Fe Trail Marker

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:50:49 +0100

Title:
End Of The Santa Fe Trail Marker
Santa Fe New Mexico (NM), Linen unused

Description:
Erected by the daughters of the American Revolution and the Territory of New Mexico 1910. End of the Santa Fe Trail Monument, erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution to mark the end of the trail, beginning at Westport (now Kansas City), Mo., which was the only highway connecting the Southwest with the east, from the first decades of the 19th Century until the 80s. Travel was by coach or prairie schooner, and highway robberies and Indian attacks were frequent occurrences.

Zuni Indian Pueblo

Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
Zuni Indian Pueblo
Scenic New Mexico (NM), Linen unused

Description:
Largest of Indian Pueblos; south of Gallup, New Mexico, located on the banks of the Zuni River. Surrounded by a valley of rich farm lands tilled by the Zuni men. The women aside from being good housekeepers. Pottery makers and bead workers. Have neat family gardens below the pueblo along the rive shore. Each evening they irrigate their gardens by carrying water from the river in their water jars filled by use of gourd dippers.

New Mexico State Capitol

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:05:51 +0100

Title:
New Mexico State Capitol
Santa Fe New Mexico (NM), Chrome unused

Description:
Here the old meets the new, and Indian, Spanish, and Anglo-American cultures merge in one of America's most picturesque and historic regions. Santa Fe, for example, has the nation's oldest capitol (the Palace of Governors, built in 1609) and the newest capitol. Yet Santa Fe was not the first capital. Ruins of an older one are across from San Juan Pueblo near Espanola. This view shows the new round capitol building - built in the shape of "ZIA" - the Indian Sun Symbol.

Old Mexican Carreta

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:32:55 +0100

Title:
Old Mexican Carreta
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Description:
Old Mexican Carreta, Albuquerque Indian Building.

Rio Grande Bridge

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:32:41 +0100

Title:
Rio Grande Bridge
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

Old Church At Pueblo Of Isleta

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:32:37 +0100

Title:
Old Church At Pueblo Of Isleta
Pueblo Of Isleta New Mexico (NM), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

A Group Of Navahoes

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:32:12 +0100

Title:
A Group Of Navahoes
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Post Card (Undivided Back) PM 1909 Mar-22

Navaho Mother And Child Weaving Indian Building

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:32:11 +0100

Title:
Navaho Mother And Child Weaving Indian Building
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Post Card (Undivided Back) unused

On The Dawson RR

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
On The Dawson RR
New Mexico (NM), Real Photo unused

Scenic

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Title:
Scenic
Santa Fe New Mexico (NM), Real Photo unused

Mountainair Community Building

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:04:20 +0100

Title:
Mountainair Community Building
Mountainair New Mexico (NM), Linen PM 1943 Oct-05

Administration Building, University Of New Mexico

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:04:15 +0100

Title:
Administration Building, University Of New Mexico
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Linen unused

Description:
This building finished in Southwestern Pueblo style-is one of the most perfect in the country from an architectural standpoint. It is 250 feet wide, contains 73 rooms and was erected at a cost of $250,000.

Church At Ranchos De Taos

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:03:49 +0100

Title:
Church At Ranchos De Taos
Ranchos De Taos New Mexico (NM), Linen unused

Description:
This very fine old primitive Church was built by the early Spanish colonists to serve the farming community three miles south of Taos. The neighborhood comprises a scattered and rambling village including Talpa, and the villagers live according to the customs and traditions of their forefathers dating back to the days of Don Fernando.

Santa Fe Super Chief

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:02:24 +0100

Title:
Santa Fe Super Chief
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Linen unused

Description:
A crack streamlined train of the Santa Fe Ry., in front of the Depot and Alvarado Hotel, ready to continue its journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Quay County Court House

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:01:48 +0100

Title:
Quay County Court House
Tucumcari New Mexico (NM), Linen unused

Description:
Built at a cost of $218,000, this four story structure is one of the finest of its kind in the Southwest. The jail on the top floor is approved for Federal prisoners, and is said to be the only one is the entire U.S. equipped with Beauty Rest mattresses. A fine painting and carved panels illustrate the chief industries of Tucumcari - cattle and railroading.

New Mexico State Capitol Building

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:01:36 +0100

Title:
New Mexico State Capitol Building
Santa Fe New Mexico (NM), Linen unused

Description:
Santa Fe was the first permanent Spanish settlement in New Mexico and oldest Capitol city in the United States. This State Capitol Building was remodeled in 1995 and is of territorial construction, being a combination of Spanish and American design. It is America's newest and structurally most unique capitol building in the nation.

San Felipe De Neri Church, Old Town Plaza

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:52:38 +0100

Title:
San Felipe De Neri Church, Old Town Plaza
Albuquerque New Mexico (NM), Chrome unused

Description:
Built in the early 1700's shortly after the villa of Albuquerque was founded, San Felipe still serves the spiritual needs of Old Albuquerque.

Capulin Mountain National Monument

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:52:17 +0100

Title:
Capulin Mountain National Monument
Capulin New Mexico (NM), Chrome unused

Description:
Aerial view of Capulin Mountain located in northeastern New Mexico 32 miles east of Raton. One of the largest and most symmetrical of the geologically recent volcanic cinder cones in the United States. It rises about 1500 feet above the surrounding plains to an elevation of 8182 feet