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WW I Recruits ~ Taos County

WW I Recruits ~ Taos County

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During the years immediately following World War I, Lansing Bloom was hired at the Museum of New Mexico charged with directing the Museum’s War History Service. In this capacity, he was responsible for compiling the biographical records and information about New Mexico’s 16,000 World War I veterans. Toward this end, Bloom conducted a survey of surviving WWI veterans of NM. Approximately seventy-percent of the surveys were returned and are housed today at the New Mexico State Archives in Santa Fe,…

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Black and white photograph of boy wearing a light colored jacket and worn out blue jeans, is seated for a photograph in front of a dark photo backdrop. The photographer, a man in a suit is seen from the back, operating a wood box camera on a tripod. To theright is a window with an old fashioned black metal lunchbox resting on the window sill.
Yearbooks- Reflections of a Community’s Youth

Yearbooks- Reflections of a Community’s Youth

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There is something deeply intimate about yearbooks. Filled with professions of eternal love and friendship, inside jokes and the youthful signatures of our classmates, each copy is an intense snapshot of a very particular time and and a very particular place. But, what each year’s edition has in common, beneath the personalized messages from ones friends and classmates, is a record of community.