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Contains 43 Results:
Introduction, overview, goals of the exhibit, welcome and conclusion to exhibit, catalog list of case headings, lecture and reception information
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Entrance, foyer, explanation, images, sources. History represented by Albuquerque Tribune original newspaper, a hundred years ago, turned each day to match current date. Route 66 anniversary postcard; enlarged 1853 sketch of Sandia Mountains and Old Town, by Whipple railroad survey team; decal Albuquerque - The Crossroads, Route 66 and Highway 85. To the side UNM Albuquerque Tricentennial Banner
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Posters, Albuquerque, the movie, 1948, based on Luke Short’s novel Dead Freight for Piute, explanation, images, sources prepared by Ramona Caplan
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Movie poster, Lonely Are the Brave, a Western, (1962), explanation, related images, sources prepared by Ramona Caplan; from press kit, photographs, film shot on location in the Sandia Mountains, Tijeras Canyon and Albuquerque, starring Kirk Douglas, based on the novel by Edward Abbey, includes Douglas intro for book, and Ballad of the Brave Cowboy
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Exhibit welcome text and copy of painting New Life in Old Albuquerque, 1993, by Roy Grinnell, shows village life in Spanish Albuquerque ca. 1795, church, plaza, a Spanish horno, defensive walls, low adobe homes, local neighbors, Spanish Alcalde Mayor and Padre consulting with a Native American Pueblo leader, two women out for a stroll, a soldier, a woman and child going to church, a wood carrier and a weaver. An explanation of the spelling change in the city’s name - Alburquerque versus Albuquerque
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Views of Early Albuquerque and vicinity, explanation, sources. Document, transcription and translation by Zuheil Alvarez, CSWR Fray Angelico Chavez Fellow, of August 16, 1809 transfer of property from Juan Miguel Santillanes, of Alameda, to Jose Martin, of Alburquerque. Scenes of the Acequia Madre (mother ditch) in Albuquerque’s North Valley, 1881; Los Griegos in the North Valley, 1883; San Felipe Church; 1880s; Hacienda of Don Perfecto Armijo in Old Alburquerque; Armijo picnic in Bear Canyon, Sandia Mountains - Armijos and families of Dr. John S. Easterday and R. P. Hall
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Zebulon Pike in Old Albuquerque, 1806, explanation, sources. Document, transcription and translation by Zuheil Alvarez, CSWR Fray Angelico Chavez Fellow, of instructions from New Mexico Governor, Don Joaquin Real Alencaster, to his soldiers to watch for Pike (Paike), verify his reason for being in Spanish territory, and invite him to Santa Fe (Spanish Archives of New Mexico II). Portrait of Pike, map of route, excerpts about visiting Albuquerque from his journal
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
United States Army Post in Old Albuquerque, 1848-1867, explanation, images, sources. Era represented by Army post accounting sheet 1858; 1853 sketch from Whipple railroad survey, with Sandia Mountains, San Felipe Church, a windmill and the long Army quartermasters' supply buildings. Postcard sketches of Old Town Albuquerque plaza, 1855, 1857; 1899 postcard of Juan Cristobal Armijo hacienda, later occupied by Quartermaster Daniel Henry Rucker. Photograph 1865, at Santa Fe, of men who served at or visited the post: Col. Bergman; Hon. C. P. Clever; Col. Nelson Davis; Maj. Herbert M. Enos (Asst. Quartermaster, Albuquerque Post); Surgeon Norris and J. C. McTerran; Col. Daniel Henry Rucker, (Asst. Quartermaster, U.S. Albuquerque Post); Col. Kit Carson and Gen. J. H. Carleton
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Civil War in Albuquerque, explanation, images, sources. Era represented by 1866 plan of a row of Albuquerque U.S. Army Post quartermaster warehouse buildings, with adobe and earthen roofs, fronts with portales, as drawn by Col. Herbert M. Enos, from NARA (rest plans at CSWR). Sketches from Texan Confederate soldier A. B. Peticolas of the Old Town Albuquerque plaza with San Felipe Church, Confederate flag and cannons and soldiers evacuating the town. Confederate money and Union propaganda mailing envelopes. Cover sheet music, Funeral March for General E.R.S. Canby, Commander of the Union army in New Mexico during the war. Photograph of Civil War reenactors from the 5th U.S. Infantry, Co. I, Albuquerque, from David Kubica; brochure with history, map of Civil War action in New Mexico
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Franz Huning, of Old Albuquerque, explanation, images, sources. Excerpt from his diary, photographs of Huning, Huning Castle, and interior
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Coming of the Railroad, New Albuquerque, explanation, images, sources. Era represented by booklet, The Albuquerque Town Grant, 1884. Photographs Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Line locomotive, ca. 1900; City Mayor Henry Jaffa; children on a burro downtown. Wells-Fargo and Company employee and envelope (ca. 1890s) with wax seal for Atrisco Land Grant papers; forwarding receipt book, 1882; mailing envelope for use in Mexico, 1888; money order slip rate card. Mail box key and railroad spike
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Albuquerque Multicultural Society, explanation, images, sources. Poster, Faces of the Borderlands, by Jose Cisneros. Photographs, Albuquerque Indian School football team, ca. 1900; the David Metzgar family, ca. 1890-1899; African-American musical concert group, ca. 1920-1929; school children of all racial backgrounds at city Third Ward School, ca. 1900-1909; laying of the corner stone for Jewish Congregation Albert, with group of musicians1899; insurance office of Ralph Halloran, ca. 1893, first automobile in city, 1897, with three African American men off on the right. Postcard U.S. Government Indian Boarding School, Albuquerque, 1907. The Vision, booklet 1908 New Town Albuquerque Irrigation Congress, with Spanish and Native American both, International Exposition that studied all aspects of irrigation, land reclamation and water rights, importance of land, water, farming and ranching to the city. School bell (hand-held).
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Maps, explanation, sources. Copy Zebulon Pike’s Map, Internal Provinces of New Spain, 1807, including New Mexico, with great herds of horses. Map 1834 Albuquerque and Nuevo Mexico as part of Mexico. Plat of Town of Albuquerque Grant and the Albuquerque Tract that accompanied the 1883 petition to Congress for confirmation of town lands and commons, but Congress disallowed it. Map, Albuquerque, USGS 1934, 1938, with Town of Albuquerque Grant, Town of Atrisco Grant, Town of Alameda Grant, Elena Gallegos Grant, Pajarito Grant and Sandia Pueblo Grant. Photograph of New Albuquerque, 1893
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Albuquerque Rough Riders and the Spanish American War, explanation, images, sources. During the Spanish American War, 351 volunteers, Hispanos and Anglos alike, from Albuquerque and across New Mexico, signed up to fight in Cuba. Era represented by this muster roll of July 1898, written in Albuquerque - that Captain John Borradaile raised 146 officers and men for the war. Borradaile was Captain of the Albuquerque Guards, a part of the New Mexico Volunteer Militia - as were many of his men. Two Albuquerque boys died in the conflict. Spanish American War memory card (USS Maine); photographs from Cuba of U.S. Army camp in Havana and U.S. soldiers on the battlefield, beside a trench with Cuban casualties. Business insurance advertisement, ca. 1880s for John Borradaile, of New York. Like many newcomers, Borradaile married an Hispana (Lola Dolores Armijo), lived in Old Town Albuquerque and had an office in New Town
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Albuquerque and New Mexico Statehood, 1912, represented by 1904 photograph Statehood Arch in New Albuquerque for visit of President Theodore Roosevelt. Proclamation Statehood Constitution Election Day Holiday, January, 21, 1911 - so all Albuquerque and New Mexico voters could go to the polls and vote for or against the new Constitution making New Mexico a state of the United States. New Mexicans overwhelmingly approved it. Flag from 1912 with 48 stars, number 47 for New Mexico and 48 for Arizona
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Albuquerque and World War I, explanation, images, sources. During the war 17,251 recruits from Albuquerque and across the state served in various branches of the armed forces - 501 died in combat or from injuries. Era represented by photographs of Albuquerque World War I Nurses Relief Corps., ca. 1918.; cartoon 1918, On the Way, by Glen O. Ream, Albuquerque educator; military dog tag, leather legging wrap and ankle tie as worn by U.S. combat soldiers in Europe. Photograph of soldier recruits at UNM. In 1917, 70% of the UNM male students enlisted for war duty. The New Mexico National Guard took over the UNM Administration Building and Kwataka Hall and trained more than 1,500 men on campus before sending them to battlefields in France in 1918. UNM Memorial Chapel brochure
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Elfego Baca in Albuquerque, explanation, images, sources. In 1910 Baca opened a law office in town, constructing his own building on Gold and Sixth, where the Federal Building is now. Photographs of Baca; his briefcase and business card; letter October 18, 1932 to his wife Francisquita Pohmer de Baca to see Attorney Keleher in case of his death; funeral card Albuquerque August 27, 1945; cover of Walt Disney Elfego Baca 1958 film video
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Albuquerque - 1900s-1920s, explanation, images, sources. Era represented by 1924 theft reward poster Wright’s Trading Post and postcard. Copies of Wright’s diaries, 1914-1936, are at the CSWR. Brochure and photograph, First American Pageant, 1928-1929, held on the barren East Mesa (Wyoming and Central), with parades downtown and Native American Pueblo, Apache and Navajo dances, crafts, and Hispanic and Anglo cowboy performances, exhibits, concessions, a grandstand, canvas tepees and a 4-story paper pueblo backdrop. KiMo Theater, postcard; dedication booklet 1927 featured Native American performers from the Pueblos of Isleta, Zuni, Tesuque, Cochiti, Jemez, Santo Domingo, Taos, and from the Navajo Nation, followed by national newsreels, cartoons, and a comedy act. Playbill, October 1933, with New Deal - National Recovery Administration, NRA emblem. Postcard reopening of the KiMo 1990s renovation project. Two KiMo playbills from 1993,1996. See the model of the KiMo Theater behind you.
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Albuquerque - 1930s, explanation, images, sources. Era represented by photograph and postcard of Albuquerque U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital, ca. 1930s. Photograph, Heights Community Center, 1938-1942, young men in Spanish furniture-making trade class. The first community center in town, it was constructed in Spanish Pueblo Revival style. Local volunteers salvaged free building materials for the structure. A grant from the New Deal National Youth Administration (NYA) paid for the workmen, who in turn, trained young men on site in construction techniques. Government funding also supported programs for education, entertainment, sports and arts and crafts training for Albuquerque youths at the Community Center. Small carpenter’s wood plainer
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Albuquerque - World War II - Major William B. Reardon. Explanation, images, sources. Reardon, a 1928 UNM graduate, served in the New Mexico National Guard 200th Coastal Artillery Anti-Aircraft Unit in the Philippine Islands, was captured by the Japanese, went on the Bataan Death March to a prisoner of war camp, survived and returned for the 1945 UNM SUB Homecoming. As a P.O.W. and officer, Reardon testified in Tokyo for the International Military Tribunal about the Japanese mistreatment of American prisoners under his command. Page from Reardon's P.O.W. diary, December 6, 1943; poster 1944 U.S. Army propaganda poster of Bataan Death March. Photograph of Reardon and UNM war heroes at Homecoming; cover International Military Tribunal for the Far East Report, 1946. Program for 57th Anniversary of the fall of Bataan, Bataan Memorial Park, Albuquerque, 1999 and newspaper article opening Bataan memorial at Bataan Park, 2002
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Albuquerque - 1950s - 1960s, explanation, images, sources. Era represented by pamphlets for Dale Bellamah homes in Princess Jean Park, East Mesa, East Heights, Albuquerque. Photograph of carpenters working on Bellamah homes striking for better pay, 1960s - working for such low wages on the homes that they could not afford to buy one. Saturday Evening Post, April 8,1950, magazine with scenes from Albuquerque (San Felipe Church, archaeology dig at Paa-ko ruin, Navajos and Pueblos at railroad yard selling art to tourists, Clyde Tingley, Central Avenue neon lights). Guides and Directories for Kirtland Air Force Base, 1958 and Sandia Base, 1967. Postcard Three Points - traffic at corner of Central Avenue, Girard Boulevard and Monte Vista Boulevard 1950s, near UNM
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Albuquerque - Justice and Reform - 1960-1970. Explanation, images, sources. Era represented by Reies Lopez Tijerina and Alianza memorabilia. Photograph Alianza Convention, Albuquerque, 1967 Civil Rights leaders, Hopi - Tomas Banyacya; SNCC Ralph Featherston; African American - Maulana Ron Karenga; Reies Lopez Tijerina. Booklet Road to Autonomy demanding Native American Indian Equal Rights, Albuquerque, 1978. Photograph John F. Kennedy 1960 Presidential campaign, Albuquerque. Protest signs from Carlos Cansino and photograph Los Duranes School Protest, late 1960s
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Lighted photograph of an automobile and Route 66 sign courtesy of David Kammer, Albuquerque. Cover New Mexico Magazine, October 1960 - Central Avenue neon lights. Route 66 license plate
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Albuquerque - Astronauts. Explanation, images, sources. Harrison "Jack" Smith and Sidney Gutierrez. Represented by photographs of Schmitt and Gutierrez
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006
Albuquerque - 1970 - 1971 - activism and protest, explanation, images, sources. Era represented by photographs of Albuquerque Journal of May 21,1970 with UNM students and National Guard troops on campus and June 14, 1971 image of riot at Roosevelt Park, Albuquerque. El Grito del Norte, January and August, 1972 story about the shooting of two local Chicano Movimiento activists, Rito Canales and James Antonio Cordova, in 1972, corrido composed for them. To this day their families and followers claim the two were set up and assassinated because they were going to discuss abuses of Chicanos at the State Penitentiary on public television and before the State Legislature. The State police say they killed them because they were trying to steal dynamite from the Wylie Brothers Construction site to use in street riots. The officers who riddled their bodies with bullets were acquitted in two lawsuits in the 1970s
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Scope and Contents
From the File:
The collection has copies of the images, text and sources used in the exhibit. It has been retained because it portrays the history of the city through a wide range of archival material from 1706-2005 from the CSWR, with limited supporting outside material. The main goal of the show was to make researchers and the public aware that such material was available at the CSWR. Represented are all the main formats held by the CSWR. The curator, Nancy Brown Martinez, tried to make it multicultural...
Dates:
2005-2006