Laurens C. Bolles Photograph Collection

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Laurens C. Bolles Photograph Collection

1930-1962

https://nmarchives.unm.edu/repositories/22/resources/4411

The collection includes two loosely bound albums containing excellent photographs (8 x 10 in.) or smaller of Pueblo Indians of New Mexico taken 1936-38 for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. These consists mainly of portraits, pueblo buildings (including churches), subsistence activities, arts and crafts, farming, and family life. Identification, date, and commentary on back of each photo. Also contains an aerial view of the Albuquerque Indian School and the first interstate conference for high schools on soil conservation. Personal photos include portraits of Bolles and family, his home and its gardens. Miscellaneous images: petroglyph and photograph exhibition shots.

134 photographic prints, some mounted in 2 photographic albums ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.

eng, Latn

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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SNAC Resource ID: 7538214

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Bolles, Laurens C., 1890-1971.

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Laurens C. Bolles was an engineer, conservationist and writer. He was born in Denison, Iowa, 1890, and died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1971. Bolles had a long career as civil engineer, farmer and conservationist throughout the Great Plains and the Southwest. He moved to New Mexico in 1935 where he worked for the Soil Conservation Service until 1959. After retiring, he supervised landscaping at the State Fair for six years and conducted a non-profit radio program entitled, "Lets Save Nature." ...

United States. Soil Convervation Service

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United States. Soil Conservation Service

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Reports were prepared by various engineers with the Soil Conservation Service. From the description of Reports of a land management survey, Navajo Indian Reservation, 1930-1938. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31277347 Formed in 1935, the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) was an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Its function was to promote and lead efforts to protect against soil and watershed degradation as part of a broader concern fo...

Bolles, Laurens Cheadle

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