The collection contains Sandra Lynn’s research pertaining to historic lodgings throughout New Mexico. Research files include: Alvarado, La Posada (Albuquerque); Harvey House (Belen); Foster Hotel (Chama); St. James Hotel, Santa Fe Trail Inn (Cimarron); Eklund (Clayton); The Lodge and Texas Hotel (Cloudcroft); Gran Quivira, Hotel Clovis (Clovis); Hoover Hotel (Columbus); Mutz Hotel (Elizabethtown); Berkshire Hotel (Estancia); Folsom Hotel (Folsom); El Rancho (Gallup); Hermosa Hotel (Hermosa); Black Range Lodge, Victorio Hotel, Ocean Grove Hotel, Orchard Hotel (Kingston/Hillsboro); Amador Hotel (Las Cruces); Casteñeda, El Fidel, Montezuma, Plaza (Las Vegas); Wortley (Lincoln); Hotel Hidalgo (Lordsburg); Lamb Hotel (Madrid); Magdalena Inn (Magdalena); Shaffer Hotel (Mountainair); Traveler’s Inn (Portales); St. Francis (Santa Fe); Stratford and Grant House (Shakespeare); Bear Mountain Guest Ranch, Palace Hotel (Silver City); Valverde Hotel (Socorro); Sagebrush Inn, San Geronimo Lodge, Taos Inn (Taos); Vermejo Park Ranch; Santa Clara Hotel (Wagon Mound). This research culminated in the book, Windows on the Past: Historic Lodgings of New Mexico, published in 1999.

Included in the collection are research and site visit notes, brochures, clippings and articles, correspondence. Also included is a small collection of memorabilia and ephemera collected and/or purchased by Lynn, as well as audio recordings of oral history interviews with individuals directly associated with some of the historic lodgings. Many of the interviews have been transcribed; the transcriptions are filed in the research folder related most closely to the interview.