Share your Southwest images

For more than forty years, the Center of Southwest Studies has been selecting, collecting, preserving, and making available a large variety of photographs, documents, maps, and other historically significant records about the Southwest -- especially those pertaining to the Four Corners region.  We invite you to share your images of the Southwest for the benefit of researchers worldwide.
Children stand in front of what they called the school bus in Rockwood, Colorado, in 1922. Mary (Lechner) Moss is the little girl on the far left. The driver of the bus is her mother, Annie Lechner, and she is the partially hidden figure to Mary's left. Later, Mary would drive that bus. 
(Photo loaned to CSWS by Dorothy Lechner for digitization.)

Image selection criteria:

  1. Must pertain to the Southwest (especially, the Four Corners region).

  2. Must be identified (at least, basic identification).

  3. Must have historical significance.

  4. The Center must retain the copyright (it may be non-exclusive).

Your options:

  1. Outright donation by deed of gift.  The Center would prefer that you donate the originals.

  2. Outright donation by deed of gift, with the Center scanning the images and giving you a digital image file of each image.  The Center is willing to do this if staff and resources allow.  The donor must complete an Image Metadata Intake Form for each image.

  3. Loan of the original(s) to the Center for digitization (staff resources permitting) using the reproduction permission and (if we are unable to scan your image(s) while you wait) the Center's temporary custody receipt forms.  The donor must complete an Image Metadata Intake Form for each image.

Yes, that's me!!  If this interests you, please email the Archivist:  archives@fortlewis.edu  Please do not leave any photos at the Center without making prior arrangements, as the Center cannot be held responsible for such items.

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