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Carl Blumner Letters

Collection

Identifier: AC 231

Scope and Content Collection consists of handwritten originals, German typescripts, and typed English translations of letters from Carl Blumner to his mother Johanna Blumner and his sister Hannchen in Prussia concerning his and his brother August's activities in Santa Fe. The letters were written between 1936-1909, and include a few attached letters by his brother August as well as a few letters by his son. Collection also includes genealogies of the Blumner familiy, and an obituary of Carl Blumner. Letters...

Dates: 1836-1906

Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Carrie Arnold Collection

Collection

Identifier: AC 289

Scope and Content This collection consists of Carrie Arnold's original manuscripts and illustrative art work on the history of the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico, copies of the published materials she used in her research including Palace records from Archivo General de Indios, B.M. Read's Illustrated History of New Mexico and Sidelights of New Mexican History, and J.K. Shiskin's Unquiet...

Dates: 1987-1997

Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

George Fitzpatrick Collection

Collection

Identifier: AC 086

Scope and Content Assorted papers including correspondence, memoranda, misc. documents and notes. Draft manuscripts on various New Mexico personalities and subjects. Eleven donated books integrated into museum collection. Articles and clippings were integrated into the libray's verticle files.

Dates: 1928-1982

Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Guide to the Bruce T. Ellis Collection

Collection

Identifier: AC 075

Scope and Content The Bruce T. Ellis Collection consists of various original and photostatic copies of the Spanish, Mexican and American period of New Mexico's history. Ellis, a former employee of the Museum of New Mexico's History Bureau, collected and saved many of these diverse documents from destruction. The collection is arranged topically and then chronologically.

Dates: 1712-1980

Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Henry Wetter Papers

Collection

Identifier: AC 238

Scope and Content Henry F. Wetter was Secretary of the Territory 1869-1872. Mrs. Wetter accompanied him to Santa Fe and the collection consists of her letters to her family in the East. There are 14 letters totaling 77 written pages, The letters describe conditions in Santa Fe and New Mexico during the period. Also included is a speech delivered by Mr. Wetter upon his return to Pennsylvania. The 58 page manuscript describes the natural resources, people, places and customs of New Mexico. Other memorabilia is...

Dates: 1869-1873

Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

John A. Clark Papers

Collection

Identifier: AC 044

Scope and Content Collection consists of 25 journals (1861-1868) kept by John A. Clark, Surveyor of the Territory of New Mexico, a typescript of the journals, and a Confederate Army broadside from 1862. The 25 journals contain 1,943 handwritten diary pages, 48 hand drawn maps, about 50 pages, notes, expenses, lists of distances and miscellaneous sketches. Kitty Shishkin has done the typescript copy of the journals. The journals give detailed daily accounts of the writer's official and personal...

Dates: 1861-1868

Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Juan Martinez de Montoya Collection

Collection

Identifier: AC 143

Scope and Content A bound collection of sixty-one pages of letters and testimony concerning New Mexico and dating from circa 1785 until 1835. The documents were gathered in Spain as the result of two petitions (one in 1785, one in 1835) by Martinez de Montoya's descendants to inherit the noble rights received by him in 1606. This collection's transcripts of documents are especially important because they are notarized by Spanish officials as accurate and suggest an earlier date for the founding of Santa Fe than...

Dates: 1785-1835

Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Manuel Antonio Chaves Collection

Collection

Identifier: AC 039

Scope and Content The Manuel Antonio Chaves papers contain correspondence and transcriptions concerning Manuel Antonio Chaves' ancestry and military career. Much of the correspondence is written by his son, Amado Chaves. Marc Simmons assembled the addenda to the Manuel Antonio Chaves Collection. The file contains copies of documentation of Manuel Antonio Chaves' military career between 1861 and 1863.

Most of the papers in this collection are xerox copies.

Dates: 1861-1970

Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Mary Cable Collection

Collection

Identifier: AC 390

Scope and Content Collection contains manuscripts of Cable's books and essays, correspondence, and research materials associated with her publications.

Dates: 1955-1991

Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

St. Vincent Hospital [1851-1979], a typed manuscript

Collection

Identifier: AC 288

Scope and Content Collection consists of a typed manuscript on the history of St. Vincent Hospital, in Santa Fe. It was written by Marcus J. Smith, M.D., under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities during 1978 and 1979. It begins with the arrival of Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy, who requested that nuns from the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati be sent to Santa Fe to establish a hospital. The history covers the establishment and growth of the hospital during the late nineteenth century as a a...

Dates: 1979

Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

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Carl Blumner Letters

Carrie Arnold Collection

George Fitzpatrick Collection

Guide to the Bruce T. Ellis Collection

Henry Wetter Papers

John A. Clark Papers

Juan Martinez de Montoya Collection

Manuel Antonio Chaves Collection

Mary Cable Collection

St. Vincent Hospital [1851-1979], a typed manuscript

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