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Bertha Sanford Dodge Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: MSS-357-SC
Abstract
This collection is comprised of the manuscript titled, "The Deserving and the Lucky" by Bertha S. Dodge. Following minimal changes, this manuscript was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 1980 under the title, The Road West, Saga of the 35th Parallel, which recounts reports of those who have passed by what is now El Morro National Monument.
Dates:
1980
Cuarto Centenario Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 396
Scope and Content
Collection consists of Spanish documents: two royal decrees, a contract with Juan de Oñate regarding the discovery and conquest of New Mexico dated September 21, 1595; and the appointment of Oñate and other members of the expedition to the title of Hidalgo, dated July 8, 1602. (The original documents are housed at the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain). Included are illustrations of coats of arms, military uniforms and weapons, maps and architectural drawings of various styles of...
Dates:
1998-
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
Lansing B. Bloom Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 020
Scope and Content
Collection consists primarily of photostats and photocopies of a broad range of historical documents, reports, and publications from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain, and Biblioteca Nacional in Mexico City, and the Bibloteca Archignasio Mezzofanti-Manoscritti in Bologna, Italy. Bloom's correspondence regarding the acquisition of these materials are included. The collection contains approx. 1100 index cards with entries of FRanciscan missionaries to New Mexico from pre-1691 to...
Dates:
1930-1940
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
United States Army Corps of Engineers. Records of the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian,
Collection
Identifier: MSS-129-BC
Scope and Content
This collection contains data for all of the states within the survey area, with the exception of Idaho and Montana. There are 53 items in the collection, all of them bound volumes of survey observations. Included are books on triangulation, sextant astronomical observations, meteorological records, odometer readings, geodetic data, and observations for time. The bulk of data in the collection pertains to New Mexico and Colorado. Some observation books are undated.
Dates:
1871-1879
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- Fray Angélico Chávez History Library 3
- UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections 2
- Subject
- New Mexico -- History -- To 1848 2
- Architecture - Historic buildings - England 1
- Architecture -- Historic buildings -- Spain 1
- Astronomy -- Observations 1
- Camels--Southwest, New 1
- Discoveries in geography 1
- El Morro National Monument (N.M.) 1
- Explorers -- Mexico 1
- Explorers -- New Mexico 1
- Explorers -- Spain 1
- Fransicans -- New Mexico 1
- Frontier and pioneer life--New Mexico 1
- Inscriptions--New Mexico 1
- Meteorology -- Observations 1
- Military uniforms 1
- Missionaries -- New Mexico 1
- New Mexico - Discovery and exploration - Spanish 1
- New Mexico -- Description and travel 1
- New Mexico -- Discovery and exploration 1
- New Mexico -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish 1
- New Mexico -- History 1
- New Mexico -- Politics and government 1
- New Mexico -- Surveys 1
- New Mexico --Discovery and exploration--Spanish 1
- New Mexico--Discovery and exploration 1
- Overland journeys to the Pacific 1
- Reports 1
- Road West : Saga of the 35th Parallel 1
- Santa Fe (N.M.) --History 1
- Southwest, New -- Discovery and exploration 1
- Southwest, Old -- History 1
- United States -- Discovery and exploration 1
- United States -- Surveys 1
- United States Highway 66 1
- Visas 1 ∧ less
- Language
- Undetermined 3
- English 2
- Spanish; Castilian 2
- English, Old (ca.450-1100) 1
- Names
- Oñate, Juan de, 1549?-1624 2
- Bloom, Lansing Bartlett, 1880- 1
- Wheeler, George M. (George Montague), 1842-1905 1
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