Ranch and farm scenes, 1880-1910
Scope and Content
The collection consists of portraits of Felipe Chaves (Chavez) and his family, and others (including Arthur E. Currens, founder of the Tucumcari News and Clovis News, and family). There are images of the Chaves home and store in Belen, the Felipe Chaves School for Mexican girls, an interior view of a room at St. Joseph's Hospital (1907), and five mounted ranching scenes taken at the Bell Ranch. There is an oversize group portrait of residents (identified on back) of a boarding house in Oberlin, Ohio, dated 1894-95.
Dates
- Creation: 1880-1910
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 2 boxes (30 photographs, 1 tintype)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: Undetermined
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
cswrref@unm.edu