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The Jim Crain Collection: Texas, California & the Old West

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The lifetime collection of author and photo historian, Jim Crain (1939-2025). The catalog is exclusively devoted to antique photography with an emphasis on the Old West, California, Texas, and Native Americana from 1840-1900.
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Lot 555

[NEW MEXICO] (26) Early Images of New Mexico, w/ (7) Photographers

Estimate: $500 - $750
Starting Bid
$100

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A grouping of 26 early images of New Mexico, ca. 1870-1910. This lot includes 22 stereoviews, three (3) boudoir cards and one (1) magic lantern slide, taken by at least seven (7) different photographers. 

 

The images in this lot include: 

 

1. Montezuma Hot Springs Hotel. Boudoir card. N.d. Extremely faint imprint to mount verso. Consignor's notes to mount verso. 

 

2. Old [illeg.] Las Vegas. Stereoview. Series, "Scenes in New Mexico." Las Vegas: J.N. Furlong. Imprint to mount verso. Period inscriptions to mount verso. 

 

3. Close-up view of the Montezuma Hot Springs Hotel. Boudoir card. Las Vegas: F.E. Evans. Imprint to mount verso. 

 

4. Group of White Oaks Boys taken in 1882. Boudoir card. White Oaks, New Mexico: [Ed. R. Bowell?]. Period ink inscriptions to mount recto and verso. 

 

5. 17. Mescolero Apache Indians at Fort Stanton, N.M. Stereoview. Series, "Stereoscopic Views of New Mexico and the Great South-West." Chicago: L.M. Melander & Bro. Imprint to mount recto. Series information to mount verso. 

 

6. 186. Rockin the Street of Walapi, N.M. Stereoview. Adrian, Michigan: F. Meyerhuber. Title to mount recto. Imprint to mount verso. 

 

7. Corrals - base of Acoma mesa. Stereoview. N.p. Period ink inscription to mount recto. 

 

8. Street - Walpi [sic]. Stereoview. N.p. Period ink inscription to mount recto. 

 

9. No. 22, Silver City, N.M. Stereoview. N.p. Title printed to mount recto. 

 

10. No. 86, Solarium Ft. Bayard N.M.. Stereoview. N.p. Title printed to mount recto. 

 

11. Luguna, N.M. Stereoview. N.p. Period ink inscription to mount recto and period pencil inscription to mount verso identifying location. 

 

12. 404. Street scene in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Stereoview. Series, "Discriptive [sic] Views of the American Continent." New York: Continent Stereoscopic Company, publishers. Title in negative. Imprint to mount recto. 

 

13. Georgetown. Stereoview. N.p. Period ink inscription to mount verso identifying location. 

 

14. 24. San Felipi, Indian Pueblo on Rio Grande. Stereoview. Series, "Stereoscopic Views of New Mexico and the Great South-West." Chicago: L.M. Melander & Bro. Imprint to mount recto. Series information to mount verso. 

 

15. 201. Ruins of the Old Pueblo Church. Stereoview. Series, "Gurnsey's Rocky Mountain Views." Colorado Springs, Colorado: Gurnsey. Period ink inscription to mount recto. Imprint and inventory notes to mount verso. 

 

16. Pottery of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. Stereoview. Series, "Discriptive [sic] Views of the American Continent." New York: Continent Stereoscopic Company, publishers. Title in negative. Imprint to mount recto. 

 

17. 218. The New Cathedral. Stereoview. Series, "Gurnsey's Rocky Mountain Views." Colorado Springs, Colorado: Gurnsey. Period ink inscription to mount recto. Imprint to mount verso. 

 

18. No. 97, Santa Rita Mines, N.M. Stereoview. N.p. Title printed to mount recto. 

 

19. No. 90, Gold Gulch Mines, N.M. Stereoview. N.p. Title printed to mount recto. 

 

20. Montezuma / Las Vegas Hot Springs. Stereoview. Series, "Scenes in New Mexico." Las Vegas: J.N. Furlong. Period pencil inscription and imprint to mount verso. 

 

21. Old spanish fort / Santirita [sic] N.M. Stereoview. Gothenburg, Nebraska: E.A. Stonecypher. Period ink inscription and imprint to mount recto. 

 

22. New Mexico, Santa Fe, Pueblo. Magic lantern slide. N.p. Catalogue information from the New York State Education Department to obverse and reverse. Identifying sticker to obverse. 

 

23. Scenery of New Mexico / Georgetown Mining Camp, on Sunday Morning. Stereoview. N.p. Period ink identification to mount verso. 

 

24. Scenery of New Mexico / The Mexicans' Quarters in the Mining Camp Georgetown. Stereoview. N.p. Period ink identification to mount verso. 

 

25. Scenery of New Mexico / The Celebrated Georgetown Rifle-Team. Stereoview. N.p. Period ink identification to mount verso. 

 

26. Scenery of New Mexico / East side of Main St. Georgetown. Stereoview. N.p. Period ink identification to mount verso. 

 

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