1. DANA B. CHASE, No. 66 Burro packed with Fruit, Santa Fe, N.M., 1886 c., 5x8", Albumen Boudoir Card, Historical Santa Fe Southern Route backmark, ASG# DBC/1095

2. WITTICK & BLISS Goats!! [Santa Fe, New Mexico], 1878-79, Albumen 4x7" stereo card, Santa Fe Landscape and View Backmark, ASG# W&Bl/1001 half a dozen goats gather in front of a home

Dana B. Chase (b 1848 d. 1897) Born in Maine in 1848, he operated studios in Trinidad and other Colorado locations from 1873 well into the 1880s, primarily in Trinidad. In 1884 he took over the Santa Fe plaza studio of William Henry Brown using the services of two "operators" W.L. Fetter and E.B Headley. Twice married, he divorced his first wife Ella, with whom he had four children, in 1888. He married his second wife Belle in Santa Fe in 1888 and divorced her in 1897. He sold his Santa Fe gallery to photographer Thomas J. Curran in 1892. He died in 1897. He advertised that he had the largest selection of burro photographs in the country

G. Ben Wittick (b. 1845, Huntington County, Pennsylvania; d. 1903, Ft. Wingate, New Mexico) A prominent 19th century regional photographer. Wittick had his first studio in Moline, Illinois. By 1878 he had a wife and five children and a successful studio, but filled with a desire for adventure in the west he became the official photographer for the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. He moved west working for the railroad and set up a series of studios in Santa Fe (1879 with a brief partnership with W.P. Bliss publishing as Wittick & Bliss, ), Albuquerque (1881 with F. W. Russell), Gallup (1890s) and Ft. Wingate (1886 - 1903). Primarily he made scenic images of natural wonders of the Southwest, as well as Indian life among the Navajo, Hopi and Zuni. He became known as the first photographer to make images of the Hopi Snake Dance. When he died in 1903 while collecting rattlesnakes for the Hopi Snake Dance it was said that the words of the snake priest from years before predicting his death at the fangs of a snake had been fulfilled. Wittick's formats ranged from albumen print stereo cards to silver prints up to 11 x 14". He was friends of John Hillers and published Hillers images under his imprint.

W.P. Bliss, active in Santa Fe 1878, partners some views with G. Ben Wittick publishing as Wittick & Bliss. Ref: Richard Rudisill, Photographers of the New Mexico Territory, 1854-1912.

DBC/1095 Burro with fruit Excellent. very rich tones with minor wear
W&BL/1001 Goats Very Good rich tones, mild wear, right panel shows flaw in negative lower left but no emulsion loss