Howard Phillips collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-0483
Scope and Content
This collection primarily consists of family negatives from 1910-1940’s. The negatives include areas such as the Las Cruces and also the Mesilla Valley. The images in this collection are made up of the Longbottom’s family functions, relatives as well as their family trips which include the surrounding areas such as the Carlsbad Caverns, Ruidoso, Taos to name a few. In this collection there is a family tree (titled Ancestors of W. Howard Phillips) as well three school notebooks which belonged to Howard Phillips’aunt, Sarah Phillips Martin. The three school notebooks include two botany notebooks and a flora of the southwest notebook and also a newsletter from the Zeta Tau Alpha dated December and January 1933 along with a note from Sarah’s sorority sister Elizabeth Sweet. Lastly, there Xerox copies of a photo album and various images of the New Mexico State University and the Palomas Mexico area.
Dates
- circa 1910-1940s
- Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text
Language of Materials
English
Access Restrictions
Open. All materials in this collection are available for research under supervised conditions in the Research Room.
Copy Restrictions
Copyrights associated with materials in this collection have not been transferred to New Mexico State University.
Biography / History
John Longbottom attended New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts which is now known as New Mexico State University. Howard Phillips donated the collection to the library. Nothing further is known about John Longbottom or his family.
Extent
2.00 linear feet (3 boxes)
Abstract
Negative prints ca. 1910-1940s with images of the Longbottom family, three notebooks which belong to Sarah Phillips Martin, family tree titled “Ancestors of W. Howard Phillips,” newsletter and a note to Sarah Martin as well as Xerox copies of a photo album and various images of the New Mexico State University and the Palomas Mexico area.
- Title
- Guide to the Howard Phillips collection, circa 1910-1940s
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Processed by Jennifer Chavez, 2011
- Date
- © 2016
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
- Monday, 20210524: Attribute normal is missing or blank.
Repository Details
Part of the New Mexico State University Library Archives and Special Collections Repository