L.W. Croissant photographs, 1913-1914.

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L.W. Croissant photographs, 1913-1914.

The L.W. Croissant photographs consists of postcard pictures of executed Mexican Revolution soldiers in a Juarez cemetery, a photograph of the construction of the Elephant Butte Dam, a picture of Preacher Lewis and the boy's choir and a picture of the sophomore Class of 1914 at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The postcards were all taken by (and the copyright held by) W.H. Horne.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8004452

New Mexico State University

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Rio Grande Historical Collections

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The Faithist movement was founded by a New York dentist and doctor named John B. Newbrough, who claimed to have written a new Bible, called Oahspe, while under spirit control. Contained in this Bible was "The Book of Shalam," which set forth a plan for gathering the outcast and orphaned children of the world and raising them, according to strict religious principles, to be the spiritual leaders of a new age. Newbrough and some twenty Faithists, as his followers were called, decided to create suc...

New Mexico State University

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The New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts was established by a legislative act in 1889 (1889 Laws of N.M., Chp. 138, Sec. 2). In 1959 a constitutional amendment changed the name to New Mexico State University (1959 Laws of N.M., Constitutional Amendment No. 7). The University is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico. From the description of New Mexico State University records, 1890-[ongoing]. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37786743 ...

Croissant, L. W.

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Little is known about L.W. Croissant save for the documentation kept with the sophomore class photograph which tells of his uncle Kenneth B. Ogilvie and his mother Rena Ogilvie Croissent. In September 1972, Kenneth Ogilvie was the only remaining living graduate of 1913. The document recounts stories of his mother and uncle. Also, Kenneth was in Preacher Hunter Lewis's choir for the Mesilla Park Episcopal Church. From the description of L.W. Croissant photographs, 1913-1914. (New Mexi...

Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921

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