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[Bank Foyer]

Description: Photograph of an empty bank foyer. The long room contains two tables, decorative arched ceilings supported by columns, and gated teller's windows.
Date: unknown
Creator: Ponsford
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Buildings on the Side of an Embankment]

Description: Photo negative of a group of three structures on top of a brick and earth embankment. Five young girls stand in front of the two story building on the left. The center building is a church with a statue of Jesus Christ extending his arms towards the camera. The structure to the right has a triangular metal frame and stairs. Two children sit on a stairway that winds down the embankment from the right. A young boy runs down a dirt track on the bottom half of the embankment.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Downward-Tilted Biplane]

Description: Photograph of a biplane that has been tilted forward onto the ground because of its broken wheels. The image of a sphinx appears on the side of the fuselage.
Date: February 1920
Creator: Rhineheimer, Oscar
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Two Men by Adobe Dwellings]

Description: Negative image of two men beside a pair of adobe dwellings. The men are wearing dark clothes and hats with conical crowns and large brims. A tree rises behind them, and tall vegetation is visible in the foreground.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Mule-Drawn Wagons on a Dirt Road]

Description: Photo negative of two mule-drawn wagons traveling down a dirt road. The foremost wagon is drawn by two animals, is piled high with bundles, and has a man seated behind the mules. The wagon in the background is drawn by one mule and has one driver.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Cottonwood Spring Canyon]

Description: Positive transparency of a canyon in Cottonwood Spring, Texas. A river-like layer of rocky deposits lies between the two walls of the canyon.
Date: 1969~
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Flower Vendors]

Description: Photo negative of a group of people standing around a flower vendor in El Paso, Texas. Many of the people are holding bouquets of flowers.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Small Experimental Aircraft]

Description: Photograph of a man in a jacket standing beside a small experimental jet with a nose propeller. A power cord runs from the rear of the plane's fuselage to a adapter box that is attached to the steel support that holds the jet aloft. Cars are parked in a row in the background.
Date: unknown
Creator: Escontrías
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Man Selling Coca-Cola]

Description: Photo negative of a man standing beside a cart covered with Coca-Cola bottles. "Drink Coca-Cola" is written on the front of the wagon. Cars, people, and tall business buildings can be seen across the road.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Mountainside at Cottonwood Springs]

Description: Positive transparency of a mountainside in Cottonwood Spring. A tree, shrubs, and low grasses grow around the rocky base of the mountain.
Date: 1969~
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Entrance of Comanche Caves]

Description: Positive transparency of the entrance to Comanche Cave in Hueco Tanks Park near El Paso, Texas. A rocky slope covers the shadowy entrance. Short vegetation grows on the mountainside underneath the cave.
Date: 1969
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Car Jumping Across Two Embankments]

Description: Photograph of a man in an automobile in the air between two embankments. Three people on the road below point upward at the car. The city of El Paso is visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Man Spraying Pesticide on Crops]

Description: Photo negative of a man standing in a field and spraying crops with a cylindrical dispenser. A building, trees, and mountains are visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Indian Spring Canyon]

Description: Positive transparency of Indian Spring Canyon in Franklin Mountains near El Paso, Texas. Mountains fill the background, while a desert area with scrub vegetation fills the foreground.
Date: 1969
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Wrecked Car at the Bottom of a Cliff]

Description: Positive transparency of an overturned and wrecked car lying at the base of a cliff at San Felipe Arroyo. Three tires are partially visible in the foreground by the car.
Date: January 14, 1972
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Mexican Refugees]

Description: Negative image of Mexican refugees crossing a desert. A boy walks beside a woman who is mounted on a donkey and carrying a dog.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Escontrías Print Company]

Description: Photograph of the inside of the Escontrías Print Company in El Paso, Texas. A balding middle-aged man leans against equipment to the left, another older man with a hat stands at a desk in the background, and a younger man smoking a pipe stands by shelves to the right. They are identified as Tony, "Dutch," and Lloyd Escontrías.
Date: unknown
Creator: Escontrías
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Adobe Brick Building]

Description: Photo negative of an adobe building in El Paso, Texas. The single-story building is "L" shaped and has a covered area in its corner. Someone can be seen sitting in a doorway near chickens to the right.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Army Wagon Train]

Description: Negative image of mounted U.S. Army soldiers riding alongside a wagon train traveling through a desert. The wagons are drawn by mules and are laden with supplies.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Canyon in Big Bend National Park]

Description: Positive transparency of a rocky canyon in Big Bend National Park in Texas. A stream runs at the base of the rocks, and tall grasses grow along the river's bank.
Date: 1968
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Desert Mountains]

Description: Photograph of a desert area with mountains in the background. The foreground is littered with rocks and grasses.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Tenement Buildings]

Description: Photo negative of a group of tenement buildings in El Paso, Texas. The foremost building on the left is a square brick building no visible entrances. The next building has three stories with railed balconies. Clothes can be seen hanging on the railings. People stand near corrugated metal shacks at the base of the building.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Smeltertown Overpasses]

Description: Photo negative of bridges that pass over a road populated with cars and people in Smeltertown, Texas. Mountains are visible in the background.
Date: unknown
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[South Franklin Peak]

Description: Positive transparency of South Franklin Peak as seen from the east. The rocky mountainside is largely barren with only a few small patches of vegetation along its slope. A small drag mark extends up the peak near the center of the image.
Date: December 21, 1971
Partner: El Paso Public Library
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