Home on the Range
Several breeds of cattle, horses, and sheep are on view at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Photograph courtesy of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. HEATHER REED AFFECTIONATELY…
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Category: Museum
Archivists Uncover New Mexico's Visual Past
DIRTY WITH AGE AND SMALL ENOUGH to fit into the palm of a hand, the cased photograph held just three clues. Its technology—an ambrotype, essentially a glass negative placed on a dark background that…
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Opening Day
Above: A blocked-off door from the Palace’s 1912 renovation. Photograph Courtesy of Palace of the Governors. The Palace of the Governors closed in August 2018 for renovations to its aged…
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Dino Flight
Above: Pterandon sightings in New Mexico have been reported since the 1800s. Photograph by AB Historic/Alamy. Roswell’s aliens may be New Mexico’s favorite unsolved mystery, but a variety of…
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Birth of the Travelogue
Above: A hand-colored image of a New Mexico dude ranch. Photograph by Minesh Bacrania. In 1925, the Fred Harvey Company announced something new and exotic: Indian Detours. Travelers who came west on…
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Digging Deep
Above: The Silver City Museum. Photography courtesy of Silver City Museum. As a Norteña, I sometimes feel like other parts of the state elude me, including a place like Silver City, where the whole…
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Make It Rain
Photograph by John McCauley “The earth is shaking / From our beating the basket drums” —Tewa song So much depends on rain. Native peoples throughout the Southwest pray for it, dance for it, build its…
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The Museum That's Saving a Community
Above: Visitors dance at the Chimayó Museum's fiesta. Photographs by Don J. Usner. MARTA TRUJILLO MARTINEZ LABORS to lift herself up from her folding chair in the shade of a giant cottonwood along…
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Hot on the Press
Above: Thomas Leech (left) and James Bourland prep the Vandercook. Photographs by Allison Pharmakis. Thomas Leech stands at the belly of a 65-year-old Vandercook letterpress, a hand-operated…
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Something You've Never Seen Before
Above: Alan Houser's sculpture, Potter (1982). Chiricahua Apache Allan Houser (1914–1994) believed that, in making art, he was “creating something you’ve never seen before.” As a master of multiple…
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