Horatio Oliver Ladd Photograph Collection

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Horatio Oliver Ladd Photograph Collection

1880-1939

https://nmarchives.unm.edu/repositories/22/resources/1979

This large and varied collection focuses primarily on the Ladd family and their friends and colleagues, the Ramona School, and the University of New Mexico. A notable group of portraits shows Native American children who were students at the Ramona School. Other photographs include images of the Dawes Institute, San Miguel College, and the Territorial Normal School. There are pictures of events such as the Santa Fe Centennial Celebration (1884), and UNM commencements (1923 and 1934). UNM photos are primarily of buildings, both exteriors and interiors, of classrooms and administration and residential buildings. Early cityscapes of Santa Fe include the old State Capitol, San Miguel church (exterior and interior) and Sena Plaza. Collection also contain views of Albuquerque, and numerous churches, missions, and landscapes of New Mexico. Some photos taken in Pecos Valley concern irrigation and farming.The photographs are by various photographers including William Henry Jackson.

207 items (2 boxes) : 207 photographic prints

eng, Latn

The University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for SouthwestResearch

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SNAC Resource ID: 6404334

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Bandelier, A.

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Jackson, William Henry

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Ramona Industrial School for Indian Girls of the Southwest (Santa Fe, N.M.)

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