These photos were needy lives but full of joy of people in New Mexico in the early 1940s. They were taken by photographer John Collier Jr..
(Photos from John Collier Jr.)
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| A boy reading in one-room school in an isolated mountainous Hispanic community, Ojo Sarco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| A dance, Peñasco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| A family around the kiva fireplace, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| A family in front of kiva fireplace, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| A family in front of their kiva fireplace, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| A gunsmith as well as a cattleman chatting in front of his shop, Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| A Hispanic family in their wagon, Peñasco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| A man and his wife studying maps of the world, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| A man with his family, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| A ninety-nine-year-old man reading in his room, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| A nurse and an interpreter trying to reach a patient's house beyond passable roads, Llano Quemado, New Mexico 1943 |
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| A nurse from the clinic operated by the Taos County cooperative health association, Peñasco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| A stockman churning butter after a hard day in the saddle, Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| A young nurse lying on bed, Peñasco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| An old Hispanic couple, Peñasco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Around the woodstove in the general store, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Boy with his chemistry set, Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Children asleep in their bed, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Children in Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Christmas Eve pageant, New Mexico, 1942 |
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| Congregation leaving after mass, San José de Gracia, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Congregation leaving after mass, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Cutting and splitting wood for the fireplace and the cook stove, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Dentist making an extraction, Questa, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Dinner in the kitchen, Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Doing homework on the kitchen table, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Doing the family washing, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Emergency transport, Peñasco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Father and parishioners, Taos County, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Father giving a sermon in Spanish, San José de Gracia, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Father on a field trip with a boy scout troop in Peñasco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Going to the mountains for wood, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Gunsmith at work, Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Harnessing up the team to get ready for a trip to the mountains in order to collect for wood, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Harnessing up the teams, ready for a trip to the mountains for wood, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Hispanic boy in the grade school, Questa, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Homework on the ranch, Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| In front of the general store, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| In Peñasco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| In the general store, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| In the one-room school, Ojo Sarco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Leaving church on Sunday, Peñasco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Listening to folk songs, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Man and his son cut down a dead tree for firewood, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Man and his son drawing water from the river, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Men rebuilding house roof, Ojo Sarco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Mother helping her children with their homework, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Mother helping her children with their homework, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Old woman in her room, Peñasco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Orchestra at a dance, Peñasco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Pitching hay into a hay rack for winter feeding, Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Sewing, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Snow being melted down for wash water, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Sorting beans for the morning meal, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Spinning wool by the light of the fire, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Starting out on the range in a snowstorm, Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Students in front of one-room school, Ojo Sarco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| The keeper of the general store, Trampas, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| The radio is the only contact with the outside world, Peñasco, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Troop of boy scouts, Taos County, New Mexico, 1943 |
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| Writing to a boyfriend in the United States Army, Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico, 1943 |
(Photos from John Collier Jr.)
