Emerging Art
This organization calls for the most elite of artists to capture and depict the beauty of New Mexico, but was only available to those with expertise in their art and previous stays in New Mexico.
Taos Society of Artists.
By the 1920's, this New Mexico town would become a hub for artists drawn to its scenery and cultural significance.
Santa Fe
Advised to move Southwest for their health, tuberculosis patients would often receive this nickname for how often the disease would make them cough.
"lungers"
Many New Mexicans referred to automobiles by this nickname for the numerous issues that users and pedestrians faced because of it.
"devil wagons"
This structure, also known as "Old Man Gloom," gets filled with negative or bad news until the whole structure is burned down.
Zozobra
This female artist found tremendous success through her depictions of New Mexico landscapes, adobe gates, flowers, and and animal skulls.
Georgia O'Keeffe
This architect used the Pueblo-Revival style to design to design thirty buildings on UNM's campus, eventually becoming the university's official architect.
John Gaw Meem
A hospital devoted to the treatment of Tuberculosis.
Sanatorium
If someone from the east coast wanted to experience the "cowboy" life without the risks or hazards of the work, they would go here.
Dude Ranches.
Many New Mexican cities competed with each other, even resorting to sabotage, to have their town included in this national project.
Route 66
This author would describe New Mexico as a greatness of beauty compared to the trite and "mucous-paper" life in large cities like New York City.
D.H. Lawrence
Started in 1919 with the help of a local art colony, this event showcases celebrates all groups and time periods in New Mexico's history.
Santa Fe Fiesta
This record-setting female pilot was one of many to move to New Mexico after receiving a TB diagnosis.
Katherine Stinson-Otero
Jim White followed a swarming cloud of bats near his land and stumbled upon this geographic feature, later to use this as a sightseeing attraction.
Carlsbad Caverns
This location became a valuable commodity after several large oil wells were found and drilled, earning a ton of money for its closest town.
Midwest State No. 1
In an attempt to depict and celebrate Native American culture, this artist and her husband built Los Gallos to gather artists in pursuit of her goal.
Mabel Dodge Lujan
Starting in 1926, this event in Santa Fe occurs every year to recognize Hispanic art. A similar event had started four years prior for Native American art.
Spanish Market
This health-seeker stayed in New Mexico and, after recovering, became a U.S. Senator representing New Mexico.
Clinton P. Anderson
This rodeo, hosted in Las Vegas, NM, became a spectacle of bull-riding, calf-roping, and horse racing events and drew in lots of money from tourists.
Cowboy Reunion
When early Ford vehicles first appeared in New Mexico, this was the most significant obstacle for most people to obtain their own.
The initial price which most could not afford.
In the late afternoon sun on October 31st, 1941, this photographer captured a famous image of New Mexico scenery titled "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico."
Ansel Adams
This group of artists emerged after their more elite counterparts, but still earned renown and notoriety on their own. Eventually, they would be referred to as the "Five little nuts in five adobe huts."
Los Cinco Pintores (The Five Painters)
There were so many hospitals treating TB patients along this Albuquerque street, that it would receive the nickname "TB Avenue"
Central Avenue
By the late 1920s, significantly more New Mexicans used this item, despite the many issues that the item still possessed.
Car
This company became popular for advertising their product on street signs which created jingles for drivers passing by.
The Burma Shaving Cream Company