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.
Party in Florence Sohn’s and Scott Diffrient’s teepee, Galisteo, New Mexico
Photographer: Barbara Gluck
Date: 1983
Negative Number: 122459

Party in Florence Sohn’s and Scott Diffrient’s teepee, Galisteo, New Mexico


Photographer: Barbara Gluck

Date: 1983

Negative Number: 122459

“Tenth Century Apartment House”, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Creator: New Mexico State Tourist Bureau
Date: 1959
Negative Number: 058339

“Tenth Century Apartment House”, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico


Creator: New Mexico State Tourist Bureau

Date: 1959

Negative Number: 058339

Wheat Stacks From 60 Acres - “Dry Farming”, Wagon Mound, Mora County, New Mexico
Date: ca 1910
Negative Number: 058018

Wheat Stacks From 60 Acres - “Dry Farming”, Wagon Mound, Mora County, New Mexico    


Date: ca 1910

Negative Number: 058018  

Trick photography, multiple portrait
Photographer: De Luxe Studio (Trinidad, CO)
Date: ca. 1928 - 1932
Negative Number: 068530

Trick photography, multiple portrait


Photographer: De Luxe Studio (Trinidad, CO)

Date: ca. 1928 - 1932

Negative Number: 068530  

“Custer’s Crow Scouts” (White Man Runs Him, Goes Ahead, and Hairy Moccasin) on the bluffs along Little Bighorn River, Montana
Photographer: Edward S. Curtis
Date: 1907
Negative Number: 160453
Palace of the Governors Photo Archives has Edward S....

“Custer’s Crow Scouts” (White Man Runs Him, Goes Ahead, and Hairy Moccasin) on the bluffs along Little Bighorn River, Montana


Photographer: Edward S. Curtis

Date: 1907

Negative Number: 160453


Palace of the Governors Photo Archives has Edward S. Curtis nitrate negatives (yes, negatives!). They include a rarely published series documenting an attempt to retrace the Battle of Little Bighorn. You can see a few more from the set in this True West Magazine article.

https://truewestmagazine.com/custer-crows-curtis/

4-H club members giving their Pledge of Allegiance, Pie Town, New Mexico
Photographer: Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration
Date: 1940
Negative Number: 058374

4-H club members giving their Pledge of Allegiance, Pie Town, New Mexico


Photographer: Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration

Date: 1940

Negative Number: 058374 

Group of children, Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico
Photographer: Norma Day
Date: 1912?
Negative Number: 002775

Group of children, Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico


Photographer: Norma Day

Date: 1912?

Negative Number: 002775

Women harvesting chile peppers in northern New Mexico
Creator: New Mexico Tourism Bureau
Date: 1945?
Negative Number: HP.2007.20.667
from the New Mexico Magazine Collection

Women harvesting chile peppers in northern New Mexico


Creator: New Mexico Tourism Bureau

Date: 1945?

Negative Number: HP.2007.20.667  

from the New Mexico Magazine Collection

Jesse Nusbaum at entrance to cliff dwelling, Rito de Frijoles, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico
Photographer: Jesse Nusbaum
Date: 1909
Negative Number: 028691

Jesse Nusbaum at entrance to cliff dwelling, Rito de Frijoles, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico


Photographer: Jesse  Nusbaum

Date: 1909

Negative Number: 028691

Fiesta pet parade prize winner, Nancy Wood, age 5, and pet dog “Schnappsy”, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: Natt N. Dodge
Date: ca. 1952 - 1953
Negative Number: 106559

Fiesta pet parade prize winner, Nancy Wood, age 5, and pet dog “Schnappsy”, Santa Fe, New Mexico


Photographer: Natt N. Dodge

Date: ca. 1952 - 1953

Negative Number: 106559  

Couple dressed for fiesta with child in stroller on Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: Rex Studio
Date: 1939
Negative Number: HP.2017.06.002

Couple dressed for fiesta with child in stroller on Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Photographer: Rex Studio

Date: 1939

Negative Number: HP.2017.06.002 

Mamie Carter
Date: ca. 1890-1915?
Negative Number: 135113

Mamie Carter


Date: ca. 1890-1915?

Negative Number: 135113

Georgia O'Keeffe (left) and Maria Chabot (right). Georgia O'Keeffe residence, Ghost Ranch, near Abiquiu, New Mexico
Photographer: John Candelario
Negative Number: 165668

Georgia O'Keeffe (left) and Maria Chabot (right). Georgia O'Keeffe residence, Ghost Ranch, near Abiquiu, New Mexico


Photographer: John Candelario   

Negative Number: 165668    

Burro loaded with firewood, Santa Fe Plaza, New Mexico
Photographer: Dana B. Chase
Date: 1884 - 1892?
Negative Number: 005508

Burro loaded with firewood, Santa Fe Plaza, New Mexico

Photographer: Dana B. Chase
Date: 1884 - 1892?
Negative Number: 005508

Replastering a Paguate house, Paguate Village, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico
Photographer: Edward S. Curtis
Date: 1925
Negative Number: 031961

Replastering a Paguate house, Paguate Village, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico


Photographer: Edward S. Curtis

Date: 1925

Negative Number: 031961