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Fray Angélico Chávez History Library's WPA New Mexico Collection
Collection
Identifier: NMU CSWR WPA
Abstract
Most of the New Mexico WPA stories were collected among Hispanic and Anglo Americans across the state. They contain folk tales, songs, customs, town histories and biographies of pioneer leaders. Some stories relate to Native American topics; a few materials pertain to African Americans and Chinese immigrants.
Dates:
1936-1940
Alejandro López Papers and Ethnographic Interviews, 1971-2021
Collection
Identifier: MSS-943-BC
Abstract
This collection contains papers and interviews created and collected by Alejandro López from the 1970s to 2021. The papers relate to education, resolana, and service-learning programs, while the ethnographic interviews focus on elders from Chimayo, Truchas, and other Nuevomexicano communities.
Dates:
1971 - 2021
WPA New Mexico Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 228
Scope and Content
Collection consists of typed documents produced by employees of the W.P.A. and its subdivision the Federal Writer's Project in New Mexico. Most of the collection is made up of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with New Mexicans, and folklore and stories about New Mexico and Hispanic culture in particular.
Dates:
1936-1940
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
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- Cities and towns -- New Mexico 2
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- Hispanic Americans -- New Mexico 2
- New Mexico -- History -- 1848- 2
- Agriculture --New Mexico--History 1
- Art--Slides 1
- Artists -- New Mexico 1
- Correspondence 1
- Education in New Mexico 1
- Federal Writers' Project. New Mexico 1
- Folk music--New Mexico 1
- Folklore 1
- Folklore and history -- New Mexico 1
- Interviews -- Sound recordings 1
- Landscape photographs 1
- Mexican Americans – Southwest, New -- Ethnic identity 1
- Minorities -- Political activity -- United States 1
- Minorities in art 1
- Mural painting and decoration 1
- Music and folklore 1
- New Mexico -- History -- 21st Century 1
- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century 1
- New Mexico -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes 1
- New Mexico – Ethnic relations 1
- Oral History -- New Mexico 1
- Photographs 1
- Sound recordings 1
- Spanish language – New Mexico 1
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- Lopez, Alejandro, 1951- 1
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