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Photo, Print, Drawing Five State Livestock Auction, Clayton, New Mexico; Houses from Dawson coal mine company town, Clayton, New Mexico

About this Item

Title

  • Five State Livestock Auction, Clayton, New Mexico; Houses from Dawson coal mine company town, Clayton, New Mexico

Names

  • Kalb, Laurie Beth (Research team member)
  • Pratt, Boyd (Research team member)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Clayton, New Mexico, August 28, 1985

Headings

  • -  Folklore--New Mexico
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- New Mexico -- Clayton

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Note: Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers.
  • -  Index data: Frame numbers and descriptions: at the Five State Livestock Auction, Clayton NM: 2-6, fieldworker Laurie Kalb talks to a cattle buyer at the output-chute, and to auction staff person Linda Leak at the same location; 7-8, bumper stickers on a parked livestock trailer, "Be lean, lively and lovable! Eat beef" and "Stop livestock theft, 1-800-432-6933"; 9-11, trucks and livestock trailers in the parking lot; at the neighborhood with houses moved to Clayton NM from the former mining town of Dawson NM: 12-37, Dawson houses in Clayton; 12-15, Dawson houses that have been rented, the fieldworker's notes state that, when photographing them, a community resident joked that he hoped we had come to condemn them; 16-30, privately owned and renovated and improved Dawson houses; 20-23, the Dawson house owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd and Irene Tower; 31-34, the Tower's house in a snapshot in their photo album, showing the house in 1949, when they bought it; 35-37, interviewing Lloyd and Irene Tower, at left, fieldworker Laurie Kalb using a Sony D5M audiocassette recorder with two lavalier mikes, at right, fieldworker Boyd Pratt.
  • -  Note: Film roll numbers assigned by processing lab; in the 1985 shooting sequence for 35mm black-and-white film, this is roll 5 of 18.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/032: 233070-05

Source Collection

  • New Mexico Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/032)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Credit line: New Mexico Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/032), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Kalb, Laurie Beth, Boyd Pratt, and Carl Fleischhauer. Five State Livestock Auction, Clayton, New Mexico; Houses from Dawson coal mine company town, Clayton, New Mexico. United States Clayton New Mexico, 1985. Clayton, New Mexico. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_233070_05/.

APA citation style:

Kalb, L. B., Pratt, B. & Fleischhauer, C. (1985) Five State Livestock Auction, Clayton, New Mexico; Houses from Dawson coal mine company town, Clayton, New Mexico. United States Clayton New Mexico, 1985. Clayton, New Mexico. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_233070_05/.

MLA citation style:

Kalb, Laurie Beth, Boyd Pratt, and Carl Fleischhauer. Five State Livestock Auction, Clayton, New Mexico; Houses from Dawson coal mine company town, Clayton, New Mexico. Clayton, New Mexico. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991032_233070_05/>.