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.
Adobe homes, Santa Cruz, New Mexico
Photographer: Kenneth Chapman
Date: 1929
Negative Number: 028707

Adobe homes, Santa Cruz, New Mexico


Photographer: Kenneth Chapman

Date: 1929

Negative Number: 028707

Horses and riders drinking at mountain stream, New Mexico
Photographer: T. Harmon Parkhurst
Date: 1925 - 1945?
Negative Number 069760

Horses and riders drinking at mountain stream, New Mexico


Photographer: T. Harmon Parkhurst

Date: 1925 - 1945?

Negative Number 069760

Artist Maria Martinez with display of her pottery, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico
Photographer: Eldred Harrington
Date: 1930?
Negative Number: HP.2014.52.3

Artist Maria Martinez with display of her pottery, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico


Photographer: Eldred Harrington

Date: 1930?

Negative Number: HP.2014.52.3

John J. Bippus, Mrs. Lou Bippus and Rose Bippus, Las Vegas, New Mexico
Photographer: Furlong and Crispell
Date: ca. 1888-1889
Negative Number: 008794

John J. Bippus, Mrs. Lou Bippus and Rose Bippus, Las Vegas, New Mexico

Photographer: Furlong and Crispell
Date: ca. 1888-1889
Negative Number: 008794

Railroad station, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Date: 1904
Negative Number: 009405

Railroad station, Las Cruces, New Mexico


Date: 1904

Negative Number: 009405

Adobe buildings at Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico
Date: 1915?
Negative Number: 004810

Adobe buildings at Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico


Date: 1915?

Negative Number: 004810

“Buy Me”, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: Phillip Embury	Harroun
Date: ca. 1897
Negative Number: 011794

“Buy Me”, Santa Fe, New Mexico

 
Photographer: Phillip Embury Harroun

Date: ca. 1897

Negative Number: 011794

Interior of San Felipe de Neri church on Easter, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Photographer: Cary Herz
Date: 1994
Negative Number: HP.2008.22.17

Interior of San Felipe de Neri church on Easter, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Photographer: Cary Herz

Date: 1994

Negative Number: HP.2008.22.17

James Keewa holds a puppy, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico
Photographer: Juan Rios
Date: ca. 1978
Negative Number: HP.2014.14.1740
The Santa Fe New Mexican Collection

James Keewa holds a puppy, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico


Photographer: Juan Rios

Date: ca. 1978

Negative Number: HP.2014.14.1740

The Santa Fe New Mexican Collection

Man with cross and lowrider car, Good Friday pilgrimage to El Santuario de Chimayo, New Mexico
Photographer: Annie Sahlin
Date: 1993
Negative Number: HP.2013.12.11

Man with cross and lowrider car, Good Friday pilgrimage to El Santuario de Chimayo, New Mexico

Photographer: Annie Sahlin

Date: 1993

Negative Number: HP.2013.12.11

Automobile near the ruins of the Pecos Mission Church,
New Mexico
Date: 1915
Negative Number: 011704

Automobile near the ruins of the Pecos Mission Church,
New Mexico

Date: 1915
Negative Number: 011704

Mountain road through aspens, New Mexico
Photographer: T. Harmon Parkhurst
Date: 1925 - 1945?
Negative Number: 069190

Mountain road through aspens, New Mexico

Photographer: T. Harmon Parkhurst
Date: 1925 - 1945?
Negative Number: 069190

Ernest L. Blumenschein in his studio, Taos, New Mexico
Date: 1926
Negative Number: 040404

Ernest L. Blumenschein in his studio, Taos, New Mexico

Date: 1926
Negative Number: 040404

Portal looking west, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: Jesse Nusbaum
Date: 1911
Negative Number: 061539

Portal looking west, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Photographer: Jesse Nusbaum
Date: 1911
Negative Number: 061539

Man with oxen and plow, Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico
Photographer: George C. Bennett
Date: 1880?
Negative Number: 055005

Man with oxen and plow, Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico

Photographer: George C. Bennett
Date: 1880?
Negative Number: 055005