Skip to main content

Bloom, Lansing B. (Biennial Reports, Draft of New Mexico History and Civies)., (1937)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 49

Scope and Content

From the File: The New Mexico Historical Review collection, housed in 10 boxes, represents the day to day workings of a scholarly journal. The collection includes substantial correspondence of the first four editors of the New Mexico Historical Review, Lansing B. Bloom, Paul A.F. Walter, Frank Driver Reeve, and Eleanor B. Adams, as well as many well known men and women who held an interest in the history of the Southwest, the Historical Society of New Mexico, and the Review. Some of the names included in the collection are Mary Austin, Edger Lee Hewett, L. Bradford Prince, Tibo Chavez, Erna Fergusson, Hester Jones, France Scholes, Walter Prescott Webb, and James Zimmerman to name but a few. Also included in the collection are manuscripts, a comprehensive index to volumes 1-15 (1926-1940) of the New Mexico Historical Review, and biographical surveys. The correspondence and working papers of the Review are in alphabetical order with boxes 1-5 (1926-1964) containing the original collection. Boxes 6-9 is an addition to the collection, also arranged alphabetically, spanning the dates 1960-1974.

Box 10 is an addition transfered from University Archives spanning the dates 1946-1985 and containing correspondence, news clippings, press releases, biographical sketches, and other records pertaining to the Calvin Horn Essay Contest, the Calvin Horn Scholarship, and the 1977 Cultural Conflict in New Mexico Conference.

Dates

  • (1937)

Language of Materials

From the File: English.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the File: 10 boxes (10 cu. ft.)

Creator

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