Old West Costume Party
May 2nd, 2010 by John Wolfe
In the process of scanning in some great old photos of Kelly for my ghost town video, I found this very cool Victorian era costume party photo. The shot was taken by Joseph E. Smith (the same man who took all the old Kelly pics) in 1887 at the Garcia Opera House in Socorro, New Mexico, which is about thirty miles from Kelly. I found this one in David R. Phillips book, “The West,” unfortunately, the caption didn’t say if the costume party was held in celebration of Halloween or not.
I had to cut the image down in this entry, but if you click on it, you’ll get the entire photo. While I’ve gotten to see a lot of old photos of costumes from back East, I think this is the first one I’ve ever seen from the Old West.
