Details

Subject(s)

• Bell Ranch (N.M.) [Browse]
• Cowboys—New Mexico—Tucumcari—Social life and customs—20th century [Browse]
• Polo—New Mexico—Tucumcari—20th century [Browse]
• Polo players—New Mexico—Tucumcari—20th century [Browse]
• Ranch life—New Mexico—Tucumcari—20th century [Browse]
• Tucumcari (N.M.)—20th century—Photographs [Browse]

Compiler

• Von Schriltz, Guy W. (Guy White), 1885- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Photographs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Photograph albums—New Mexico—1909 [Browse]
• Photographs—20th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1909.

Summary note

Photograph album (7" x 11"), containing 85 black/white photographs (3.25" x 5.5" and 3.5" x 3.5") and photographic postcards taken from September-October 1909, depicting cowboy life and work at the Bell Ranch (near Tucumcari, New Mexico). Included are photographs of ranch buildings and cowboys (branding, de-horning, herding cattle, riding horses, setting up the chuck wagon). Many show various polo match activities. The front pastedown bears the business card of "G. W. Von Schriltz, Tucumcari, New Mexico, Wells Fargo & Co. Express, Agent," one of the polo players identified in a ranch polo match and possibly responsible for the photographs.

Source acquisition

Purchase, 2008. AM 2009-54.

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