Images from New Mexico
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Images from New Mexico - La Bajada
La Bajada
Backtracks: Time Travels through New Mexico by Photographs of New Mexico scenes--old and new, side-by-side. La Bajada Road c. 1920s.
Images from New Mexico - La Mesilla
La Mesilla
- Backtracks: Time Travels through New Mexico by Photographs of New Mexico scenes--old and new, side-by-side. La Mesilla Plaza c. 1947
Don Antonio Lucero, La Posta c. 1947.
Images from New Mexico - Las Cruces
Las Cruces
Las Cruces A Photographic Journey by Beginning with the long struggle for statehood, the book takes readers on a decade-by-decade journey with photos and stories chronicling New Mexico history as seen through the eyes of the southern part of the state, and offers a glimpse into what the future may hold.
FIG Publications, LLC, in coordination with New Mexico State University, has created a beautiful, 288-page, full-color coffee table book commemorating the history of Las Cruces and Dona Ana County.
The book features photos from NMSU's Library Archives and Special Collections, as well as unique family photos and art from the citizens of Las Cruces.
Las Cruces by The city of Las Cruces, situated under blue skies in the Chihuahuan desert, boasts a wealth of Native American and Wild West history. As New Mexico's second largest city, it is a modern metropolis that has held fast to its picturesque past. Spanish explorers arrived in the 1500s in search of the Seven Cities of Gold, and after the United States conquered the territory, the area became a transportation hub, blossoming from its adobe beginnings into a permanent, important city. The photographs contained in this volume tell the unique story of this town of contrasts, where historic plazas sit next to modern office buildings and subdivisions sprawl alongside old Indian trails. Many of the original buildings are now restaurants, galleries, and shops, but here readers see them as they once stood, making this book a fascinating reference for those familiar with the city or exploring it for the first time.
Las Cruces: an illustrated history by Spans the entire geological, cultural, economic, industrial and scientific history of New Mexico's second largest city, including many photographs and paintings.- Las Cruces, New Mexico - 1849-1999: Multicultural Crossroads by Historical photographs from Las Cruces and Mesilla.
- The Las Cruces historic buildings survey by Historical photographs around Las Cruces and Dona Ana County of street scenes, Old Dona Ana School, private homes, businesses, Las Cruces train depot, La Mesilla Plaza c. 1935, St. Genevieves Church c. 1900, The Fraternum c. 1906 & 1945. Covers La Mesilla, Mesilla Park, New Mexico State University, Picacho, Fairacres, Tortugas, and San Ysidro.
- Backtracks: Time Travels through New Mexico by Photographs of New Mexico scenes--old and new, side-by-side. Downton Las Cruces c. 1940s, Main Street c. 1930s, Las Cruces c. 1905, railroad dept c. 1904.
Images from New Mexico - Las Trampas
Las Trampas
- Backtracks: Time Travels through New Mexico by Photographs of New Mexico scenes--old and new, side-by-side. N.M 76 c. 1940s, San Jose de Gracia las Trampas Church c. 1912.
Images from New Mexico - Las Vegas
Las Vegas
Las Vegas, New Mexico by Historical photographs, some derived from postcards, of many civic buildings, businesses, and residences including: Bridge Street, Carnegie Library, Castaneda Hotel, San Miguel County Courthouse, El Dorado (New Mexican) Hotel, El Fidel Hotel, Grand Avenue, Montezuma Hotel, New Mexico Highlands University, New Mexico Insane Asylum, Old Town Plaza, Plaza Hotel, Rough Riders, St. Anthony's Sanitarium, Santa Fe Depot.- New Mexico : Past and Present by Historical and contemporary photographs from around the state.Photographs of Castaneda Hotel c. 1904, Bridge Street c. 1892, photo studio c. 1880.
- Backtracks: Time Travels through New Mexico by Photographs of New Mexico scenes--old and new, side-by-side. Plaza Hotel c. 1885, Las Vegas Plaza c. 1879, "hanging windmill", New Mexico Highlands University campus, Bridge Street c. 1900, Gallinas River reservoir c. 1898.
Las Vegas by Las Vegas, New Mexico, is 70 years older than the Nevada city of the same name. Eleven years after its founding in 1835, it was the first settlement in Mexico reached by invading US troops in the Mexican-American War. In later years, it was an intensely violent place, an equal to Dodge City and Tombstone. Gunmen such as Billy the Kid, Mysterious Dave Mather, Doc Holliday, and others walked the streets of Las Vegas. The town also built grand houses and mercantile buildings. It rivaled Albuquerque and Santa Fe for importance and boasted one of the state's two streetcar systems. Here, Teddy Roosevelt announced his availability to serve as president, and Tom Mix filmed his earliest movies.
Gateway to Glorieta by ISBN: 9780871085979Images of: Charles Ilfeld, Halfway House, Baca's Folly, ice houses and ponds c. 1890, Montezuma Hotel, Plaza c. 1870 & 1877, Hose and Fire Company c. 1910, trolleys, Bridge Street c. 1892, Insane Asylum, Roundhouse c. 1920s, tuberculosis sanitarium c. 1897, Jack Johnson, filmmaking, first airplane in Las Vegas c. 1913, Charles Lindbergh's plane c. 1928, airport dedication 1933, 200th Coastal Artillery parade, "hanging windmill", Buffalo Hall, Exchange Hotel, outlaw J.J. Webb, Teddy Roosevelt, Governor Ezekiel C. de Baca, political rally c. 1932, Las Vegas c. 1900, Storrie Dam under construction, South Pacific Street c. 1875, Sisters of Loretto Academy c. 1885, Normal University graduates 1901, Springer Hall, Ralph Emerson Twitchell, La Voz del Pueblo c. 1915, Las Vegas Optic c. 1914, Las Vegas aerial view 1923, Baca Mansion, Trinidad Romero mansion, "The Hermit" - Giovanni Maria Augustiani, first church in Las Vegas, Montgomery Bell mansion, third annual Fiesta, bicycle club c. 1906, first Boy Scout troop, brass band.
Images from New Mexico - Lea County
Lea County
Hobbs and Lea County by When Lea County was created in 1917 from Eddy and Chaves Counties in the far southeastern corner of New Mexico, it was virtually a blank canvas for new settlers, with few roads, towns, or amenities. At that time, the area was little more than vast pasture lands for cattle, though a handful of hardy folk had already established homesteads in the region. But on June 13, 1928, that all changed when oil was discovered, and almost overnight, an influx of new settlers arrived, and development began in earnest. Oil wells were drilled on ranchers' property, and saloons, stores, and hotels sprang up, especially in the city of Hobbs. The oil boom drove the early economy of Hobbs and Lea County and of southeastern New Mexico, but through boom and bust, the community has endured, and today more than 50,000 residents call it home.
Images from New Mexico - Lincoln County
Lincoln County
- Ruidoso Country by Includes historical photographs of the towns of Lincoln, Cloudcroft, and Ruidoso, as well as John Chisum and his ranch and the people and places involved in the Lincoln County War. Photos of Alexander McSween, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Frank Coe, John Tunstall, and the Lincoln County Courthouse.
Towns of Lincoln County by Lincoln County is often associated with such legendary figures as outlaw Billy the Kid, Smokey the Bear, and renowned painter Peter Hurd. Named after Pres. Abraham Lincoln in 1869, the new county saw itself through many struggles, including the Lincoln County War, during which cattle barons and landowners bitterly fought over government beef contracts and farmland. At that time, Lincoln was the largest county in the United States and is now home to modern mountain towns such as Carrizozo, Capitan, Ruidoso, and the locally famous ghost town White Oaks, which had been a gold rush boomtown. Lincoln County also contains the beautiful Hondo Valley settlements and ranching communities such as Tinnie, Picacho, San Patricio, Hondo, and Glencoe. From the rolling hills of the Hondo Valley, to the bloody streets of Lincoln, all the way to the forested mountains of Capitan, this retrospective explores the area's rich history.- Merchants Guns and Money: the story of Lincoln County and its wars by Historical photographs of Fort Stanton, Mescalero Apaches, Chief San Juan, the Murphy-Dolan Store (later the Lincoln County Courthouse), Saturnino Baca, Charlie Bowdre, John Chisum, Alexander McSween, Sue McSween, Billy the Kid, John Henry Tunstall, the Lincoln County Bank, Jessie Evans, William Brady, Thomas B. Catron, the Wortley Hotel, Lew Wallace, Pat Garrett, Robert Olinger, the Lincoln Saloon, the San Juan Church, and the town of Lincoln.
- Backtracks: Time Travels through New Mexico by Photographs of New Mexico scenes--old and new, side-by-side. Lincoln County Courthouse c. 1930s, street scene c .1900, J.M. Penfield Store c. 1914, Las Placitas torreon c. 1938, highway near Hondo c. 1930s.
- Forgotten Frontier : the story of southeastern New Mexico by Images of: Quanah Parker, Kit Carson, John Simpson Chisum, James J. Dolan, Lawrence G. Murphy, Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid, Sallie Chisum Robert, Joseph C. Lea, Lea family, Mescalero Apache schoolchildren, John W. Poe, Sophie Poe, cowboy roundup, James J. Hagerman, Ella Lea, J. Phelps White, first train entering Roswell 1894, main street in frontier Artesia.
Images from New Mexico - Los Alamos
Los Alamos
Los Alamos : 1944-1947 by Forever linked with World War II and America's entrance into the Atomic Age, Los Alamos was a small ranching community and the site of an exclusive boys' school until 1943. As the Manhattan Project unfolded, Pvt. J.J. Michnoviczâfirst assigned to Los Alamos as a photographer by the military but later working as a civilianârecorded the everyday spirit of the people and the events that shaped this mountain town into a home . . . and secret scientific hotbed. This comprehensive view of the social and professional world of Los Alamos is the photographic journal of a singular period, as seen through the eyes of one soldier.
Images of: Frijoles Canyon, Jemez Mountains, Los Alamos Ranch School, Los Alamos Trading Post, Robert Oppenheimer, Leslie R. Groves, Enrico Fermi, Deke Parsons, Otto Frisch, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Maria Martinez, Chapel of San Miguel, Philip Morrison, Richard Feynman, Ernest Lawrence, Charles Critchfield, Isador Rabi, Edwin McMillan, Hans Bethe, Robert Bacher, Linda Darnell, Edward Teller, Norris Bradbury.
Los Alamos and the Pajarito Plateau by The story of Los Alamos and the Pajarito Plateau begins with explosive eruptions. An ancient volcano in northern New Mexico created the mountainous region known as the Jemez, and with time, erosion sculpted narrow mesas and canyons. The first residents were Native Americans. One of their many pueblos was called Tsirege, or the "bird place," from which the name Pajarito originates, meaning "little bird" in Spanish. Homesteaders arrived in the 1880s, but the area was sparsely settled. In 1917, former Rough Rider Ashley Pond started the exclusive Los Alamos Ranch School in the isolated setting, but in 1942 the US government took an interest in that isolation. They abruptly closed the school, and Los Alamos became a secret military post. There, under J. Robert Oppenheimer's leadership, the atomic bomb was created. Postwar housing shortages, Cold War threats, and disastrous fires have challenged Los Alamos, yet it has endured as a place of unique history and natural beauty.
Los Alamos -- The Ranch School Years, 1917-1943 by Twenty-five years before the Manhattan Project created the town of Los Alamos, the Pajarito Plateau was home to an elite prep school for boys, ages twelve to eighteen. The Los Alamos Ranch School combined a robust outdoor life and a carefully cultivated wilderness experience with a rigorous academic program and the structured discipline of a Boy Scout troop, perfectly mirroring the Progressive Era's quest for perfection. John Wirth's father, Cecil, taught at the school and directed its summer camp. John spent his early childhood at the school along with his brother Tim, later a U.S. Senator from Colorado. Drawing on oral accounts, memoirs, and archival documents, as well as John's firsthand knowledge and family lore, the authors situate the school within the educational trends of the day and New Mexico's cultural milieu. Wirth and Aldrich examine the influence of the school's controversial director, Albert J. Connell, who was roundly disliked by two of the best-known students, Gore Vidal and William S. Burroughs. Many other students reported their time at the school to be a profoundly positive, often life-changing, experience. Additional chapters recount the growing-up experiences of ranch workers' children and the role the school played in their lives and those of area residents.
Images from New Mexico - Los Lunas
Los Lunas
Los Lunas by Don Felix Candelaria received the San Clemente Land Grant from the Spanish Royal Government in 1716. The land was later claimed by Don Antonio José Luna, whose ancestors arrived in the early 18th century. Don Antonio's son Solomon Luna was instrumental in New Mexico's quest for statehood and was singularly influential in the creation of the New Mexico State Constitution. Ranching and farming were major commercial activities in Los Lunas, and Solomon Luna and his nephew Eduardo Otero were two of the largest sheep ranchers in the United States. Maximiliano Luna served in the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War. German-born merchants, the Huning and Neustadt families brought Anglo goods and culture to Los Lunas in the 1860s. From a population of 1,500 in 1986, Los Lunas has grown to more than 15,000 people today, making it the second fastest-growing community in New Mexico.
Images of: Solomon Luna, Luna Mansion, Franz Huning, Huning Mercantile.
