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Photo, Print, Drawing Historical buildings and neighborhood, Mora, New Mexico; Fence at Pop Shaffer hotel, Mountainair, New Mexico

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Title

  • Historical buildings and neighborhood, Mora, New Mexico; Fence at Pop Shaffer hotel, Mountainair, New Mexico

Names

  • Kalb, Laurie Beth (Research team member)
  • Baca, Elmo (Expert)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Mora, New Mexico; Mountainair, New Mexico, June 25, 1984

Headings

  • -  Folklore--New Mexico
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- New Mexico
  • -  United States -- New Mexico -- Mora
  • -  Mountainair

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Note: Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers.
  • -  Index data: Frame numbers and descriptions: scenes in Mora NM: 2, old mill in Mora (at edge of town), according to local historian Elmo Baca, this was the second mill in the valley and operated by the Sanchez family; 3-4, house described by Baca as "interesting vernacular"; 5-32, scenes in the China Block neighborhood in Mora; 5-6, territorial style doorway on the side (residence portion) of the old Sanchez store; 7-11, interior of Maggie Olivas's old adobe house, her home altar is visible in frames 7 and 8; 11, Maggie Olivas, fieldworker Laurie Kalb, and Elmo Baca, fieldworker's notes add "old photo of the church"; 12-13, painting of the old church building by Maggie Olivas's son Fred T. Olivas; 14-16, Saint Gertrude/Santa Gertrudis, the patron of the church (both the old and the new), this painting by Fred T. Olivas is at the back wall of the sanctuary; 17-18, exterior of the current church building; 19-21, Laurie Kalb, Maggie Olivas , Elmo Baca; 22-25, deep window (exterior view) in Olivas's adobe house that serves as a niche for a statue of the Virgin; 26-28, exterior of Olivas's house with grandsons in the doorway; 29-30, behind the church, an old house, the convent, fieldworker's notes add "do not recall if it still has this function," statue of the Virgin on the porch, fieldworker's notes add "this statue used to be on a pedestal in front of the church but was vandalized and Fred T. Olivas fixed it and painted the backdrop for it; 31-32, small chapel in the China Block neighborhood, fieldworker's notes add "Baca liked the Greek temple architecture"; 33-34, main street of Mora; scenes in Mountainair NM: 35-37, part of artists Pop Shaffer's fence.
  • -  Note: Film roll numbers assigned by processing lab; in the 1984 shooting sequence for 35mm black-and-white film, this is roll 8 of 11.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/032: 226152-03

Source Collection

  • New Mexico Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/032)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: New Mexico Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/032), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Kalb, Laurie Beth, Elmo Baca, and Carl Fleischhauer. Historical buildings and neighborhood, Mora, New Mexico; Fence at Pop Shaffer hotel, Mountainair, New Mexico. United States Mora Mountainair New Mexico, 1984. Mora, New Mexico; Mountainair, New Mexico. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_226152_03/.

APA citation style:

Kalb, L. B., Baca, E. & Fleischhauer, C. (1984) Historical buildings and neighborhood, Mora, New Mexico; Fence at Pop Shaffer hotel, Mountainair, New Mexico. United States Mora Mountainair New Mexico, 1984. Mora, New Mexico; Mountainair, New Mexico. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_226152_03/.

MLA citation style:

Kalb, Laurie Beth, Elmo Baca, and Carl Fleischhauer. Historical buildings and neighborhood, Mora, New Mexico; Fence at Pop Shaffer hotel, Mountainair, New Mexico. Mora, New Mexico; Mountainair, New Mexico. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_226152_03/>.