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Organ Mts., New Mexico – Vintage Print

Organ Mts., New Mexico, c1925. — historic photograph
Organ Mts., New Mexico, c1925.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Organ Mts., New Mexico. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Organ Mountains rise abruptly from the Chihuahuan Desert east of Las Cruces, and their jagged, pipe-like crags gave the range its name. This c1925 photoprint, issued by the Las Cruces photographer J.F. Gandara and numbered 155 on its caption card, shows the range as tourists and rail travelers of the era would have seen it from the valley floor. The record is thin, and its date and details come from the caption card rather than a verified source, but the scene captures how New Mexico's landscape was marketed to visitors in the early twentieth century, when scenic views of the Southwest were in steady demand.

Created / publishedc1925.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by J.F. Gandara. No. 155. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,095 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157974

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