France V. Scholes Pictorial Collection [picture]. 1910-1979.

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France V. Scholes Pictorial Collection [picture]. 1910-1979.

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The collection consists of photographs, postcards, photomechanical prints, and a scrapbook, ranging in date from c. 1920s to c. 1970s. The bulk of the collection is related to France V. Scholes, his family, and his time in Mexico. The first part of the collection includes photographs of France V. Scholes, his family, and his friends. The second part of the collection is almost entirely related to Mexico, including photos from the Scholes' 1927 trip to Mexico; photomechanical prints from a 1910 travel booklet on Mexico; 1964 photos of a model of the buildings of Tenochtitlan; unidentified scenes; and postcards of Mexico. The scrapbook includes photos of the Scholes' 1927 trip to Mexico, photomechanical prints of Mexican images, postcards, some by Hugo Brehme, and ephemera; along with brief written accounts by Lillith Scholes and a newspaper article written by F.V. Scholes.

59 photographic prints ; 8.25 x 10 in. or smaller.21 photomechanical prints ; 9.5 x 10.75 in. or smaller.1 scrapbook ; 8.5 x 13.5 in.7 postcards ; 3.5 x 5.5 in. or smaller.

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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SNAC Resource ID: 7713096

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Cox, Percy S.

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Templo Mayor (Mexico City, Mexico)

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Scholes, France V. (France Vinton), 1897-1979

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France V. Scholes was born in Bradford, Illinois, in 1897. He received his degrees from Harvard University. A tuberculosis patient, he came to Albuquerque in 1924. Regaining his health, he taught history at UNM off and on from 1924-1945, and regularly from 1946-1970. In between he received funding to search for colonial documents in the archives of Spain and Mexico, finding many for the history of New Mexico. In addition, he worked for the Library of Congress copying documents in the archives of...

Brehme, Hugo.

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Photographs by German photographer Hugo Brehme Wick (1882-1954, known as Hugo Brehme) who immigrated to Mexico around 1903 and worked there for the remainder of his life. Best known as a photographer of Mexican landscapes, especially of the volcanoes outside the Valley of Mexico, Brehme also photographed people and places throughout the country, much as other photographers did to sell primarily to the tourist market. He also made a few notable photographs during the Revolution, including the fam...