PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS PHOTO ARCHIVES

American history with a difference, we post daily photographs of the past and feature the people, culture, and places of New Mexico and the southwest. We are a department of the New Mexico History Museum in downtown Santa Fe.  The Palace of the Governors Photo Archives collection contains an estimated 1,000,000 items including historic photographic prints, cased photographs and daguerreotypes, glass plate negatives, film negatives, stereographs, cabinet cards, photo postcards, panoramas, color transparencies, lantern slides, tintypes, digital photographs, and cameras.

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Line for the Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back opening at the Lensic Theater, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Photographer: Michael Heller Date: 1980 Negative Number: PAAC.0125.p0191

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The Floersheims at their residence, Roy, New Mexico

Negative Number: 112986

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Nine men having a meal at "Hotel Deluxe", Mills, New Mexico

Date: ca. 1910-1920

Negative Number: HP.2022.15.50

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Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) postcard

Date: ca. 1925

Negative Number: 176110

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Black cat walking in front of large selection of used vacuum cleaners, near Farmington, New Mexico

Photographer: Sam Adams

Date: 2008

Negative Number: PAAC.108.B36.001

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Corn harvest, San Felipe Pueblo, New Mexico

Photographer: T. Harmon Parkhurst

Date: ca. 1925 - 1945

Negative Number: 003430

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Flock of sheep, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico

Photographer: Ferenz Fedor

Date: 1940

Negative Number: 100460

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Burros loaded with firewood near Saint Francis Cathedral, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Date: ca. 1900

Photographer: Norma Day

Negative Number: 010007

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Homing pigeons in Lion Park, Las Vegas, New Mexico

Date: ca. 1910 

Negative Number: 009493

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Tunstall-McSween-Penfield Store, Lincoln, New Mexico

Photographer: Wyatt Davis Date: 1940 Negative Number: 057307

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SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Photographer: Annie Sahlin Date: 1991 Negative Number: HP.2013.12.085

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Angelica Chavez and dog, Tarah, lead a group to the Fiesta Pet Parade, Santa Fe

Photographer: Larry Beckner

Date: 1988

Negative Number: HP.2014.14.1136  

The Santa Fe New Mexican Collection

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Students waiting for buses at Santa Fe High School, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Photographer: Juan Rios

Date: 1978

Negative Number: HP.2014.14.426

Santa Fe New Mexicancollection

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Group at Soda Dams, Jemez River area, New Mexico

Photographer: Charles F. Lummis Date: ca. 1890

Negative Number: 031322

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Top of the world, Great Divide Trading Post, New Mexico

Creator: Southwest Post Card Co. Date: 1930-1950

Negative Number: HP.2025.02.1

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Group in front of the Mills Post Office, Mills, New Mexico

Date: ca. 1910-1920

Negative Number: HP.2022.15.82

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"Approach to Acoma", view near Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico

Photographer: Witter Bynner Date: ca. 1920-1935 Negative Number: 092174