Images from New Mexico

Historic photos from local archives and contemporary pictures show how people lived, worked, and played in this oasis in the Chihuahuan desert. This book continues the efforts by the Public History Program at New Mexico State University to publish local histories.

A New Mexico centennial history series book.

Historical images derived from postcards of Mogollon and Cooney, as well as Hillsboro, Santa Rita and Hurley, Silver City and Pinos Altos, Leopold and Tyrone, and western Grant County.

In 1950, Jonathan Wittenberg, student of biochemistry and biophysics, went to live among the Navajo, or Dine, in New Mexico. With a bulky twin-lens reflex camera, Wittenberg was recording a people and their lives from a time that is essentially unrecorded. Navajo Nation 1950 is an incredible historical document that is not only a unique entree to a time and place, but a surprisingly fine art foray by an untrained photographic eye.

Images of: Cloudcroft railroad c. 1918, Oliver M. Lee c.1898, Railroad Day in La Luz c. 1898, Mayhill, Alamogordo Park, Alamogordo depot c. 1908, Alamogordo and Sacramento Railway, Alamogordo c. 1902, Railroad Hospital, Alamogordo Hotel, New Mexico School for the Blind, Otero County courthouse, Orogrande, Highrolls, Quevo Canyon, Tubercular Hospital, New Mexico Institute for the Blind, Alamogordo c. 1905, Alamogordo tuberculosis sanatorium, White Sands tourism, The Lodge at Cloudcroft, Charles Bishop Eddy, Dog Canyon Ranch c. 1900, Garton Lake, Alameda Park, Jim Cady Ranch, Tularosa, New Mexico Normal University, Fraternal City Sanatorium, Baptist College, Governor Richard Dillon, writer Dick Halliday, Jesse P. Bell, Mary Moffet Bell, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, V-2 rocket, New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped, Pinon New Mexico, Nation's Christmas Tree 1956, Holloman Air Force Base, John Paul Stapp, International Space Hall of Fame.

Historical and contemporary photographs from around New Mexico. Photograph of Otero County Courthouse in Alamogordo c. 1900.