Eleanor Preston photographs, 1947-1948.

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Eleanor Preston photographs, 1947-1948.

294 copy negatives of Cookes Peak, New Mexico, Deming, New Mexico, Goldfield, Nevada, Salinas, California from 1947-1948.

5 linear inches.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8004465

New Mexico State University

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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...

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