Ron Collins photographs, 1899-1939.

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Ron Collins photographs, 1899-1939.

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This collection contains photographs of Cloudcroft, New Mexico, El Paso, Texas and Mexico. Most photographs are views of Cloudcroft, showing scenery, roads, camps and the Cloudcroft lodge around 1920. Photographs were made by El Paso photographer Jim Alexander. Included are 11 panoramic photographs, also made by Alexander, of El Paso area scenes. A postcard from June 13, 1909 shows the burning of the lodge at Cloudcroft. Other images show the YMCA cottage, Camp Hughey, the army camp, Ashen Grove, Chipmunk Ave., and Box Canyon. There are two pictures of catacombs, one ornately decorated with bones, and another identified as Guanajuato, Mexico. The panoramic photographs include pictures of the Rio Grande in El Paso, James Canon Road in Cloudcroft, High Rolls, New Mexico, and the El Paso High School Reserve Officers' Training Corps Band from 1923.

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New Mexico State University

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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...

Collins, Ron.

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Alexander, Jim, 1967-

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