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Museum housed in an old brick house
Date/circa:  1939/1949
Photographer: Ellison, Eddie Boyden (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Subjects: Museums--New Mexico--Photographs;
Notes: Image of a brick building with a porch that appears to have been used as a museum. There are concrete steps with large rocks at the sides that lead up to a wooden porch of the brick building and there are three wooden rocking chairs on the porch. There are three hand-made signs on the porch. The first states, "Mt. Chalchihuitl Prehistoric Indian Turquoise Mine Southwest 20 M from Santa Fe." The second states, "Admission Mine and Museum 25 c." The third says, "Please No Smoking." This negative was in Drawer 1 labeled "Indians."
Negative#:  12409

This photo is part of the Ellison family collection, donated to the Center by Gary Ellison, son of Betty D. and Edward H. "Rocky" Ellison and grandson of Eddie Boyden Ellison.

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