Box 8
Container
Contains 1 Result:
New Mexico highway history, notes for Kammer research on Old Route 66, copies from New Mexico Highway Journal, State Highway Commission meetings, reports, newspapers, etc. Construction projects, expenses, Great Depression, New Deal Federal funding, National Industrial Recovery Act, telegraph from Washington, D.C. with information on highways in New Mexico, 1933 WPA funding, projects, local state budgets, state taxes, gasoline tax, traffic census, welcome visitors archway on Route 66 West. Work on North-South Route 66, Albuquerque, and roads in other towns, Laguna, Santa Fe to Las Vegas, Rio Puerco, Gallup to Holbrook, Santa Rosa, Tucumcari, San Jon, Raton, Farmington, Canoncito, Pecos, etc., 1931- 1935
File — Box: 8, Folder: 51
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
“Research and Nominations" documents the bulk of David Kammer’s professional work surveying cultural landscapes and preparing State and National Register nominations. Properties he examined range from vernacular buildings of northern New Mexico to road sections and commercial buildings along Route 66. Kammer conducted the first statewide study of New Deal public works architecture and landscape projects in New Mexico. He surveyed historic acequias, bridges, theaters, neon, neighborhoods,...
Dates:
1931- 1935