New Mexico 2004

Ring binder storing photographs taken by Les Cleveland during his travel in New Mexico, United States, 2003 to 2004. Contains 35mm negative strips in sleeves and the corresponding contact sheets as well as handwriten notes on the content of the photographs, such as information on subjects such as locations and people, on interleaved pieces of notepaper.

Photographs feature the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, the Fiesta of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Tortugas, and inscriptions on rocks at El Morro National Monument as well as towns such as Magdalena, Gallup, Pie Town, Pena Blanca, Taos, and Madrid. Also photographs taken on Central Avenue, Albuquerque. Subjects include shop clerks, cafes, gun shops, motels, cantinas, dwellings, theatres, mining machinery, sculptures by Michael Austin Wright, and landscapes and geographic formations. Chris Smith is identified, photographed with two children in a cafe.

Trip to New Mexico dated based on photographic ephemera held in PAColl-10647-17.

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Arrangement: Prints and negatives originally stored in a ring binder labelled "New Mexico 2004" on the spine.

Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 50 b&w negative strips and eight contact sheets.

Physical Description: 35mm film strips, contact sheets, and holograph notes.

Processing information: Due to the high likelihood of the presence of PVC in the plastic covering of the original ring binder, the photographic materials were removed and placed in a new binder that met with the Library's conservation standards. The original binder has been disposed of.

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Material is stored in film negative store. It requires 24 hours of acclimatisation.