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Taos Valley Irrigation Project Materials
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Esther Mullowney Wood illustrated manuscript for "Penny Paths to Taos,"
Manuscripts
An account of traveling overland by car and trailer to Taos, New Mexico, by four women in 1939 (Esther, Mary Ellen, Bev, and Pat). They left Philadelphia mid-July and the journalistic account continues until their departure from Taos on August 30. Their trailer (named "Tuck") was "6' x 12' built of plywood and covered with duck canvas." Quite a bit of the account in Taos relates their experiences with Taos artists Dorothy Brett, Bert Geer Phillips, and Red Dancer (Juan Mirabal).This draft was submitted to Coronet Magazine in 1940, but was not published. The illustrations, done by Mahan, include drawings of the women's car and trailer, Pike's Peak, interior scenes, Taos Plaza, women in Taos, the pueblos and ranches.
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Indian Farmer. Taos Valley
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This collection of photographs documents Native Americans living in Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma between 1904 and 1917. The primary tribes represented are Hopi, Navajo and Taos Pueblo Indians, but there are also Osage, Apache and several other Southwestern tribes. There are many portraits, as well as posed, romantic scenes depicting storytelling, hunting, weaving, or playing instruments. Additional candid views show people in their daily activities, pueblos, and dance ceremonies. In a letter to Henry Huntington, Feb. 12, 1923, Moon describes these photographs as "a complete collection of my Indian pictures made from the beginning of my work in 1904 to 1917. It includes ... the pick of the Fred Harvey collection that I made for them during the period of my contract with them, 1907 to 1914, and my own collection made since the latter date." Besides the portraits, there are scenes of Indians in their daily activities, including baking bread in outdoor ovens, gathering water in pots, riding horses and tending livestock. There are also views of the Hopi Snake Dance, and the Corn Dance at Santo Domingo.
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Taos Pueblo
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"When Taos Pueblo, his first book, was published in 1930, Ansel Adams was just 28 ... Adams had only recently put aside a nascent career as a concert pianist to pursue photography full time, but he still wasn't sure he could make a go of it when he took up the Taos project in collaboration with Mary Austin, a popular novelist and nature writer based in Santa Fe. ... The twelve photos in Taos Pueblo--each an original print on silver bromide paper prepared especially for the book by Adam's San Francisco custom-paper supplier, William Dassonville--include several formal portraits reminiscent of Edward Curtis and nearly circumscribed, almost intimate landscapes that are a far cry from the inflated magnificence associated with Adam's later work. ... The book's solid success at the height of the Depression (all 108 copies sold over two years at $75 a piece) encouraged Adams to continue in his course as a photographer of the American landscape."--The Book of 101 Books : Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century / Edited by Andrew Roth. New York : PPP Editions in association with Ruth Horowitz, 2001.
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Walter E. Burlingame letter to A.T. McGhee
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This letter is bound in a cover labeled "Report on Property of the Carbon Hill Mine, Grant County, New Mexico." It contains Walter E. Burlingame's description of the Simon Mining District in Grant County, New Mexico, focusing on topographical features of Grant County and including a technical report of mining prospects in the area.
mssHM 72369
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Report on Water Rights of the Taos Valley Company (and Successors in Title)
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"Report on Water Rights of the Taos Valley Company (and Succesors in Title), Antonita, Colorado," by R.W. Gelder, Consulting Engineer, Oct. 1952. Company: Newhall Land & Farming Company
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Photographs of Taos artists and miscellaneous Western photographs, (bulk 1920s-1930s)
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An album with 62 photographs chiefly consisting of snapshots of artists from the Taos, New Mexico art colony, as well as some additional California artists and miscellaneous Western views. The portraits include newspaper cartoonist Walter R. Bradford; Taos art colony figures E. Irving Couse, Joseph Henry Sharp, O.E. Birmingham, Albert Looking Elk (aka Albert Martinez), Joseph Amodeus Fleck, Ernest Blumenschein, Victor Higgins, and Catherine Critcher; Western artists Percy Gray, and Emily Scherzell; Laguna Beach art colony artists Frank Cuprien and Emily White, and artist Aldro T. Hibbard. The Western views including images of camping, riding horses, and calf roping and branding. One image is not a photograph but rather a silhouette of a woman labeled "Kay". The final photographs appear to be family snapshots, including some from the early 1900s.
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