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Box 8

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New Mexico tourism booster programs, promotion, publicity, better roads, copies and notes for Kammer Route 66 research, copies of various materials from New Mexico Highway Journal, Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce meetings minutes, New Mexico Tourism Bureau, newspapers, related reports and correspondence from officials. Funds paid for advertisement, value of tourism to state economy, promotion of local businesses, selling idea of travel, visitor conveniences, benefits, events, good roads, railroad. Problems with roads, construction delays, ports of entry, New Deal Federal funding, impact of World War II. Promotion of Native Americans, Indian feast days at Pueblos, disrespect from tourists,, arts, selling crafts along road sides. 1939 article on Navajos going to Laguna for the feast of St. Joseph, at mass, the carniva. Work of Joseph A. Bursey at the New Mexico Tourist Bureau, change from New Mexico Highway Journal to magazine, 1924-1961

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 56
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: 1924-1961