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New Mexico Press Women Project "The Press and Public Policy: 1984", 1984

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 19-20

Scope and Content

From the Collection: The New Mexico Press Women collection documents the activities of the organization from 1949-2009 and is divided into two series, Organization Records and Scrapbooks. The Organization Records series contain board meeting minutes, treasurer reports, membership lists, histories and other pertinent information about the NMPW. Included is a folder with material on Ruth Bush Jones a charter member of the organization.

The Scrapbooks series contains scrapbooks and scrapbook contents documenting the activities of the organization. Included are news clippings, meeting agendas, photographs, correspondence, pamphlets and publications for each year. Also included are materials pertaining to the National Federation of Press Women. An oversized folder contains the April 10, 1981Grants Beacon, which is the 30th Anniversary Reunion Program of the NMPW as well as photocopies of newspaper clippings.

An addition was processed in June 2012. Materials added were chronologically organized into the Organization Records series and consist of agendas, board meeting minutes, broadsheets, budgets, by-laws, contests, correspondence, flyers, grants, magazine articles, membership information, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, press releases, publications (for both the New Mexico Press Women and the National Federation of Press Women) reports and scholarship materials. The addition also included a 1988-1989 scrapbook, containing news clippings, photographs, correspondence, pamphlets and publications.

The unprocessed addition of April 2024 (unprocessed Box 2) includes materials related to yearly conferences, board meeting minutes and agendas, treasurer records, fundraising, Zia book awards, copies of the Broadsheet and other publications and more, dated 1999-2022.

Dates

  • 1984

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 8 boxes (7.5 cu. ft.) + 1 oversize folder

General

Binder Contents. Added to collection, June 2012.

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