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J.A. Carey, Ancho, NM, trespassing with cattle on US Forests, 1917 -

 Item — Box: 14, Folder: 2
Identifier: Items 40-54

Scope and Content

From the Collection: Boxes 1-8 of this collection contain George W. Prichard's personal, business, and legal correspondence, arranged by date, 1894-1940. The letters concern New Mexico politics, including the Progressive Party in San Miguel County, land issues, mining concerns, and Prichard's time as district attorney for southern New Mexico. This part of the collection also contains legal papers for the Santa Fe Dredging and Mining Trust and other mining corporations. Additional mining materials, including documents relating to the Abo Canyon Copper Mining Co., will also be found in Box 10 of the collection.

Box 9 contains miscellaneous clippings, leaflets, and reports about women and the war effort, the U.S. Food Administration program for New Mexico, and other women's activities of the times.

Box 11 contains materials on mining, law, New Mexico health, women's meetings, legal and political mining concerns, the New Mexico constitution, and 2 letterbooks with George Prichard's personal letters.

Boxes 12 and 13 consist of Maude Hancock Prichard's materials. This includes information on women's activities, such as the Mother-Daughter Congress of June 24th-29th, 1918 held in Albuquerque, N.M.; the New Mexico Federation of Women's Clubs; child welfare materials (including the United States Children's Bureau), 1918-1940; and food administration/preservation and home economics, 1918. Speeches, memorandums concerning home and foreign relief, materials from local boards of various women's committees, the Women's Committee of the National Council of Defense (WCCND), and various committee reports are also in these boxes, as are her personal letters.

Boxes 14-16 document Prichard's legal cases. Cases include divorce, land, mining, bankruptcy, land grants, water rights, murder, property settlement, etc.

Dates

  • 1917 -

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 16 boxes ( 6 cu. ft. )

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451