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Palace of the Governors Photo Archives
The Palace of the Governors Photo Archives contains an estimated 800,000 items including historic photographic prints, cased photographs, glass plate negatives, film negatives, stereographs, photo postcards, panoramas, color transparencies, and lantern slides. This important collection includes material of regional and national significance, dating from approximately 1850 to the present, covering subject matter that focuses on the history and people of New Mexico and the expansion of the West; anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology of Hispanic and Native American cultures; and smaller collections documenting Europe, Latin America, the Far East, Oceana, and the Middle East.

Some of the most important 19th and 20th century photographers of the West are represented in the collection including: Adolph Bandelier, George C. Bennett, Wesley Bradfield, Nicholas Brown, W. C. Brown, W. H. Brown, Joseph Burge, John Candelario, D.B. Chase, W. H. Cobb, Edward S. Curtis, Nathaniel Frucht, Carter Harrison, F. Jay Haynes, John K. Hillers, William Henry Jackson, Charles Lindbergh, Charles Lummis, Karl Moon, Jesse Nusbaum, Timothy H. OSullivan, T. Harmon Parkhurst, H. F. Robinson, Adam Clark Vroman and Ben Wittick among others.

The Photo Archives is actively seeking materials from contemporary photographers documenting the past 50 years of visual history in New Mexico. Recent acquisitions include works by Ann Bromberg, Steve Fitch, Cary Herz, David Michael Kennedy, Herbert A. Lotz, Tony OBrien, Jack Parsons, and John Willis.

Most material is available, as high quality digital scans and digital prints, for editorial reproduction and use in advertising, publishing, media projects, and TV news media stories for reasonable imaging and use fees. It is the responsibility of the archive to present images as they are. A searchable online database of images in the Photo Archives is available at [| digitized collections].