This collection consists of 865 colored and black and white glass slides of New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona Native American ruins, pueblos, missions, artifacts, as well as general landscapes of the surroundings and portraits of individual residents. A large number of the slides are attributed to H.S. Poley, but it is not clear how many or which ones in particular are his work. The general category, "Missions of New Mexico," name him as a photographer on the index of Box A, but his name is not mentioned elsewhere in the collection. Most of the slides are not dated, but those that are indicate years and occasionally, months, from the late 1880s to the 1930s. These dates are noted on the index in the top of each slide box. There are nine boxes in all with spaces for 100 slides each. In November, 1974, Andrew Taylor, a Colorado Springs photographer, made black and white negatives, contact sheets and work prints of the collection. These are numbered according to his own system of organizing the images and are stored in an archival box with the collection.
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E77
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E59
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E63
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E40
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E54
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: G6
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: G8
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E45
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E62
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E65
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E71
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E48
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E38
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E81
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E34
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: G10
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: G7
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: G4
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E53
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E56
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E61
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E68
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E46
Southwestern Ruins, Villages, Pueblos and Missions, 1896-1940: E73
