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©2007 by Fort
Lewis College Foundation, Center of Southwest Studies account
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Introduction/ Scope and contents
This is an artificially compiled collection of photographs still in their albums. The provenance and identify of some of the albums are undetermined. They include a range of photographic media, from tintypes to color snapshot photoprints. 8 albums, in 6 folders in 2 document cases. None of these items circulate, but the Center can provide digital or print copies of individual photographs from these albums.
Administrative information
Arrangement note: Folders are added to this collection as the Southwest Studies Center acquires albums that are not already part of a larger collection.
Acquisition information: These photograph albums were donated to the Center of Southwest Studies by various sources over the years, as noted in the folder list.
Processing information: This online guide was produced by Todd Ellison, Certified Archivist, Center of Southwest Studies, in August of 2007.
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Box 1:
Folder # |
Folder Title |
Image Date
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Descriptive notes |
| 1 | Durango etc. photo album | 1895-1919 | Views include a trestle bridge over a rocky canyon; Las Animas River; Perins Peak; "Durango's Fairest" women posing in fine apparel and wide-brim bonnets; "Hello, Central" two men playing at using a donkey's ear and tail as a telephone; two views of two-story houses (in Durango, Colorado?); a faded group portrait of Durango railroad working men posing with shovels; a statue in Denver City Park; a view on Colorado and Southern Railroad at Inspiration Point near Idaho Springs; Clear Creek Canyon; Balance Rock; geological formations of the Four Corners region; and an overview of a city partially surrounded by a lake. This album is not identified; photos are undated but most have basic identifications as noted above. B/w photoprints, size 4x5". Label inside back cover of this album: Morehouse Photo Album, patent July 23, 1895, The Heinn Specialty Co. (Milwaukee, Wisc.). Pages of the album are highly acidic. Some pages apparently formerly had photos affixed to them but they are no longer there. Also, some pages were torn out of the album and are no longer there. (Retrospective accession number 2007:092.) |
| 2 | Harry and Halcott family photo album | circa 1902-1913 |
Ninety-two b/w snapshot photoprints of family members, including Harry and Halcott (a toddler and a slightly older boy), in Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico, circa 1902-1913. Also, Mother and Thelma, ca. 1904-1907, dad, and other individuals. No family name noted or known. The album includes other views, a number of them with animals. On black photo-album pages, bound with a string, no cover. Written on cover page: "To Harry from Mother. Childhood days in the Rockies of Colorado." This album could be useful to show childhood dress at that day. (Accession number 1999:03011:A.) |
| 3 | Leadville (Colo.) family portrait photos album | circa 1880-1900 |
An early album, gilt edged with a much-worn purple velvet cover and a metal clasp, containing 45 early photo portraits by studios in Leadville and far elsewhere (including Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) of men, women, infants, and children. Most are cabinet card photos; several tintypes. At least one is colorized. (Also, one small greeting card.) Not identified (except for maybe one) or dated. This album could be especially useful for examples of dress toward the end of the 19th century. (Retrospective accession number 2007:093.) |
Box 2:
Folder # |
Folder Title |
Image Date
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Descriptive notes |
| 1 | Baker family Durango photo album | circa 1911-1934 |
The photos in this album are very well identified, for the most part, with typed captions. Subjects, listed in the order in which they appear in the album, are: the Wesley Baker ranch on Lightner Creek in Durango in 1918-1934; views from the top of Smelter Mountain; a rudimentary timber "bridge"; looking up Lightner Creek at Sprore's, Lechner's and Rowe's places and the Durango Coal Mine in 1933; Rio Grande Southern train near Pine Ridge in 1918; Rio Grande Southern motorized bus in 1933 and (derailed) 1941; the American Smelting and Refining Company smelter at Durango viewed from the RGS railroad bridge in 1929 and from the top of Smelter Mountain in 1923; Lightner Creek, 1925-1933; house at 1217 Main Avenue in Durango in 1912 and 1927; the Baker Lumber Company in Durango in 1913, 1918, and 1920; the Branson and Paul Sawmill on the James Crawley ranch on Lightner Creek in 1911; the Wesley Baker sawmill on the W. Johnson ranch and on Dry Fork on Lightner Creek in 1914 and 1915 and in 1918 after it burned; the Fred Shoemaker sawmill on Dry Fork on Lightner Creek in 1925; a tent camp and barn at the Bell Ranger Station in January of 1912; Ute Bridge 2 miles south of Fort Lewis in 1912 and 1918; snow pictures in December of 1931 through February of 1932 (including views of Art Baker and a Nash Coupe on a plowed road in Pagosa Springs, a car on a plowed road near TXT ranch west of Hesperus, a RGS snowplow, and Main Avenue in Durango at 6th and on the 80 block); the May 1920 flood in the Animas Valley at Hermosa, north of Durango; building a new railroad grade in the Animas Canyon above Tacoma in 1911; the June 1927 flood in Durango showing the Gradens Bridge and the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad bridge, with two cars of coal swinging on the rails over the Animas River; the September-October 1911 flood across the Animas Valley just below Pinkerton and in the lower end of the valley, just above Animas City; Carbon (Moving) Mountain in Durango as seen from Mexican Flat in 1932 and 1934; a train wreck between La Veta and Walsenburg in 1930; a boulder that blocked Highway 160 in Wildcat Canyon in 1928; a collision of two cars, "Reamer and and Italian", near Trimble Springs in 1920; trapped bobcats in 1927, 1929, 1933, and 1934; trapped coyotes in 1932 and 1933; badgers in 1934; a mountain lion in the Durango Zoo in 1929-1930; a man with a dead hanging Canadian lynx in 1929; a bear in the Durango Zoo in 1929; ringtail cat, porcupine, grey squirrel, and faun in 1926-1934; beaver work in 1932; a hunted grouse with a man in 1932; an owl in 1932; bee hives in 1927-1932; bulls and cattle, 1920-1932; George Baker (pulling timber) and horses, 1919 and 1932; poultry; Fort Lewis sheep in 1918; hay in the back of a motorcar in 1920; people viewing the arrival of the first airplane in Durango (undated); George Baker, Hugh F. Taylor, and John Winner at Hermosa Bridge in 1920; Fred Schunk and a car in 1928; George Baker, John, Andy, and Alfred Sporer at the upper end of the Triangle Coal Co. tram in 1932; Harry Rickert on his used car lot just north of the Salvation Army Hall in the 1000 block of Main Avenue in 1931; Bob Winner, Betty Balcom, Henry Vassmer, and Alberta Vassmer in 1918; John W. Winner in 1918; Ed's cabin in 1918; Hugh Taylor and Art Baker at Ed's cabin in the old lumber yard in 1918; Art Baker at the Vallecito Camp Ground in 1923; George and Art Baker in a Ford in 1918; Art Baker, Bill Rowe and Fred Schunk at Schunk's ranch in 1928; the Branson and Paul sawmill on the James Crawley ranch on Lighter Creek (men pictured are identified in the caption in the album) in 1911; Art Baker, George Baker and Merrill Taylor on bicycles at the Pinkerton Ranger Station in 1911; Carl and Ed Skoog (and others, identified) at the Skoog ranch in Mancos in 1931/1932; George and Edward Baker at Gallup, N.M., in 1931; photos of individual men (including Bakers); Edward Baker and C. O. Weselquist at the Pinkerton Ranger Station on which they were building in 1911; Edward Baker in his service uniform on a railroad track in 1919; Theodore Albers and other service men (identified) in uniform in 1918; many posed photos of Hazel May Albers in 1920 and 1921; American Legion Department Convention parade floats on August 17, 1933 in Durango; the Western Colorado Power Company substation at Tacoma, Colorado, and a few other photos. (Accession number 1990:11010.) |
| 2 | Mesa Verde tourist photo album | circa 1900-1919 |
51 b/w snapshot photoprints (most of them, small) of Mesa Verde National Park and vicinity, circa 1900-1919. Views include horses on trails; burros; Alamo Ranch ("outfitting point for the ruins"); Cliff Palace; Balcony House; Square Tower House, Navajo Canyon; Spruce Tree House; natural bridge below Spring House in Echo Canyon; Point Lookout; Pine Tree Camp at Moccasin Canyon; Cliff Canyon; Long House; Montezuma Valley; Spruce Tree Camp; ruins at Aztec, N.M.; Sunset House; Hemenway House; and a view of the La Plata Mountains at sunset from Soda Spring Trail in MVNP. With 7 matching copy negatives of selected images. (Retrospective accession number 2007:094.) |
| 3 | Weed (N.M.) photo albums | circa 1910-1940 |
Family photos in the vicinity of the Sacramento Mountain in New Mexico. 3 photo albums. The cover of one of the albums reads "Souvenirs of Clovis, N.M."; it contains photos of children and parents, and views elsewhere including the New Mexico Military Institute (N.M.M.I.) and ranches near Roswell, N.M. The cover of the second album reads "Souvenir of Roswell, N. Mex."; it contains photos of parents and children; men in uniform (ca. 1918-1919?), Native American individuals, landscapes, a hydroelectric dam, a motorcar near a rock tunnel, cliff dwellings, individuals and groups out in nature, a photo of a city by J. I. Ray of Arizona, etc. The third album contains no identifications, and includes a number of early automotive scenes. All are b/w photos, mostly not identified or dated. |
Box 3:
Folder # |
Folder Title |
Image Date
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Descriptive notes |
| 1 | Bayfield (Colo.) Photo Album |
circa 1916-1918 |
A historic photo album of early Bayfield, Colorado photographs all dating from the 1916-1918 period. (Accession number 2010:019.001) |
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