Historic Photograph Collections

E. Schuster photographs, c. 1880s

PH194_013

E. Schuster was a photographer active in La Vegas, New Mexico in the 1880s. The collection consists of nine stereo images of the West: one of San Felipe de Neri in Albuquerque, one of a house in Denver, and the rest of the Las Vegas vicinity. There are also ten boudoir prints of Las Vegas.

Box 1

• PH194_013_2513: [View down dusty street lined with adobe(?) buildings, many signs, a striped barber (?) pole. In distance a group of men argue outside the Vegas Gazette office, others watch. On back of photo is stamp for "E. Schuster, Cigars & Confections." ] BY Schuster, E. of Las Vegas NM. LOC New Mexico—Las Vegas Hot Springs.
• PH194_013_2514: Adobe Church. Albuquerque, N.M. [View of San Felipe de Neri Church built in 1793. A small two-towered adobe church with extensive attached buildings. Fenced parkland is across the street from church, in foreground of photo is a masonry(?) fence.] BY Schuster, E. of Las Vegas NM. LOC New Mexico. DATE 1880s?.
• PH194_013_2519: Sapello Pass. [Trail goes through rocky pass; tall trees are by trail and in background; man perches on rocks by trail with his horse and buggy nearby. Possibly Sapello Pass on the old Santa Fe Trail. See below. BY Schuster, E. of Las Vegas NM. LOC New Mexico. DATE 1880s.
• PH194_013_2533.2: Company's dam, 1 1/2 miles above Las Vegas Hot Springs [New Mexico. View of dam in winter, flow over dam partially frozen. Two women sit at edge of pool] BY Schuster, E. of Las Vegas NM. LOC New Mexico—Las Vegas Hot Springs. DATE 1880s c.
• PH194_013_2533: Company's dam, 1 1/2 miles above Las Vegas Hot Springs [New Mexico. View of dam in winter, flow over dam partially frozen.] BY Schuster, E. of Las Vegas NM. LOC New Mexico—Las Vegas Hot Springs.
• PH194_013_2536: Cross on summit of Starvation Peak, 16 miles below Las Vegas. [Close-up view of two crosses on mountaintop. Peak is where group of Spaniards was reported besieged by Indians in 1800 and starved to death. See below. BY Shuster, E. of Las Vegas Hot Springs, NM. LOC New Mexico—Las Vegas Hot Springs. DATE
• PH194_013_2537: Mexican Boy with Water. [Small boy carries two buckets of water supported by a hoop-like sling. He stands in front of a wooden gate in an adobe wall. Probably New Mexico, 1880s.] BY Schuster, E. of Las Vegas NM. LOC New Mexico. DATE 1880s c.
• PH194_013_2538: Interior View, Church of San Miguel at Santa Fe. Erected 1559. [Floor to ceiling view of altar.] BY Schuster, E. of Las Vegas NM. LOC New Mexico—Santa Fe. DATE 1880s c.
• PH194_013_2539: No. 709. 14th and Curtis Streets, Denver, Colo. [Winter view of handsome residence with three-story square tower.] BY Schuster, E. of Las Vegas NM. LOC Colorado. DATE 1880s c.