My old Ashton albumn has 1 or more photos from Trinadad,Col. HB FAGLEY] On Fri, 26 May 2000 11:17:37 -0700 "minoucha" <minoucha@email.msn.com> writes: > Hi again, > Sorry. It seems the link I sent you to Oliver's bro Otis doesn't > work so here is what is at the website: > > return to handbook view > > > AULTMAN, OTIS A. (1874-1943). Otis A. Aultman, photographer, > was born on August 27, 1874, in Holden, Missouri. His family moved > to Trinidad, Colorado, in 1888. As a young man he learned > photography from his older brother, Oliver, many of whose > photographs of the Trinidad area are now in the collections of the > Colorado State Historical Society. Aultman married and had two > children, but the marriage ended in permanent separation in 1908, > after which he moved to El Paso. There he first worked for Scott > Photo Company, was later in partnership with Robert Dorman, and > eventually owned his own studio. > > By 1911 El Paso was a gathering place for many of the main > personalities of the Mexican Revolutionqv-Francisco Madero, > Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Pascual Orozcoqqv-and after the shooting > began, many American newsmen also flocked to El Paso to cover the > event. Aultman was a man in the right place at the right time. He > photographed the battle of Casas Grandes, the first battle of Juárez > in May 1911, and the Orozco rebellion in 1912. He was a favorite of > Pancho Villa, who called Aultman "Banty Rooster" because he was only > 5'4" tall. Aultman worked for the International News Service and > Pathé News and experimented with cinematography. In 1916 he was one > of the first photographers to arrive at Columbus, New Mexico, after > the famous raid on that town by the Villistas. > > During the early years of the revolution Aultman's studio on > San Francisco Street was a gathering place for both local and > outoftown reporters and photographers, as well as soldiers of > fortune. A group called the Adventurer's Club, of which Aultman was > a founding member, was formed during this period and continued to > meet sporadically for many years, reportedly whenever two or more > members were in town. > > After the military part of the revolution was over, Aultman > settled down to a conventional career as a commercial photographer. > He took an interest in photographs depicting early El Paso history > and collected many from the 1880s and 1890s. Another of his > interests was archaeology; early photographs of archeological sites > in the El Paso area are an important part of his work, and he was a > founding member of the El Paso Archaeology Society. > > Aultman died from a fall in his studio in 1943. Subsequently, > the El Paso Chamber of Commerce purchased his negatives from the > estate. Over the next twenty years the negatives were moved from one > storage place to another, and undoubtedly some disappeared. In the > 1960s, due largely to the interest of historian C. L. Sonnichsen,qv > the remaining 6,000 negatives were purchased, prints were made, and > both negatives and prints were placed in the El Paso Public Library. > A second set of prints is in the Library of the University of Texas > at El Paso. Aultman's photographs are a priceless contribution to > the recorded history of El Paso, southern New Mexico, and Ciudad > Juárez. Equally important are his photos of the early stages of the > Mexican revolution. > > BIBLIOGRAPHY: Larry A. Harris, Pancho Villa and the Columbus > Raid (El Paso: McMath, 1949). Mary A. Sarber, Photographs from the > Border: The Otis A. Aultman Collection (El Paso Public Library > Association, 1977). > > Mary A. Sarber > > Recommended citation: > "AULTMAN, OTIS A." The Handbook of Texas Online. > <http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/fau23.html> > [Accessed Fri May 26 13:13:07 2000 ]. > > > > > > The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint project of The General > Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin > (http://www.lib.utexas.edu) and the Texas State Historical > Association (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu). > > © The Texas State Historical Association, 1997,1998,1999. > Last Updated: February 15, 1999 > Comments to: comments@www.tsha.utexas.edu > >