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This photograph album created by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company includes photos of the Wootton Ranch in Wootton, New Mexico; the construction of Raton Pass; and various unknown persons and places. A mountain pass on the Santa Fe Trail between Trinidad, Colorado, and Raton, New Mexico, Raton Pass was developed into a road by Richard Wootton and later became a route on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. Photos 1, 7, and 23 are missing from the album. Photos 27-36 are unidentified and their relationship to the Wootton and Raton Pass photos is unclear.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1870 and 1913
Item Number: 214587
Call Number: ATSF Series 5, #14.303-14.318; 15.004-15.023
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214587
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Transportation
Built Environment - Function - Transportation - Rail-Related - Tunnels
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Construction and maintenance
Business and Industry - Railroad - Tunnels
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - International
Places - Other States - New Mexico
Thematic Time Period - Industrialization and the National Economy, 1870 - 1920
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Construction and maintenance
Transportation - Railroads - Tunnels
Type of Material - Photographs
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