American Historical Ephemera & Photography

View of Montezuma Hotel and Hot Springs. Las Vegas, NM: ca 1880s. 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. boudoir photograph on cardstock mount (image somewhat toned, with some discoloration to upper left, mount with some staining and wear to edges and corners). Verso with various pencil inscriptions including one reading, "Hot Springs Hotel, Las Vegas, New Mexico." View of the complex shows the Montezuma Hotel, stone bathhouse, two-story Stone Hotel, heating plant with smokestack, and bridges passing over Gallinas Creek.

The Las Vegas Optic (December 6, 1879) reported that Jesse James was a guest of the Hot Springs hotel in July, 1879. Henry Hoyt, A Frontier Doctor (Lakeside Press, 1979), pp. 183-187 claims that Billy the Kid played monte with Jesse James there that July. 

[With:] Photographer unknown. [Santa Fe, NM]: ca 1880. 6 7/8 x 3 5/8 in. cabinet photograph on cardstock mount showing the Palace of the Governors before early 1900s renovations removed the roof finials.  (some corner and edge wear to mount). 

[With:] CHASE, Dana B., photographer. Senate Chamber, Capitol Build’g, Santa Fe, NM, Santa Fe, NM: late 1800s. 7 1/2 x 4 3/8 in. boudoir photograph on cardstock mount showing the interior chamber of the Territorial Capitol (light soiling; some corner and edge wear to mount). “The Santa Fe Route. The City of Santa Fe” with description of Santa Fe on the verso. Mautz pg. 327.

[Also with:] MARTIN, Alexander, photographer. Garfield Monument, Toltec, D & R. G. Denver, CO: ca 1888. 6 1/4 x 3 7/8 in. stereoview on cardstock mount, No. 323. “Alex. Martin, Rocky Mountain Views. Published at Denver, Colo.” printed on the margins. Shows the monument to Garfield erected after his assassination. Mautz pg. 174.