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Alice Scoville Barry Collection of Historical Documents,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-016
Scope and Content
Collection consists primarily of official government documents from New Mexico's various historical governments: its Spanish colonial government (1684-1821), its Mexican government (1821-1846), and its American government (1846-1863). Subjects included are the reconquest of New Mexico, the collection of taxes, official appointments, Indian affairs, and religious matters. Items of note are Diego de Vargas' journal of the Reconquest (1694-1790), Commandante General Pedro de Nava's refusal of...
Dates:
1684-1863
Arthur and Lorene Delgado Collection of Manuel Delgado Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1988-037
Scope and Content
Collection consists primarily of the military papers of Manuel Delgado (a captain in the Spanish Army), 1778-1794. Most of the documents concern administrative matters related to several presidios in northern New Spain. Other topics include military desertions, military benefits, financial accounts, a land conveyance in Santa Fe, and judicial proceedings.
Collection is in Spanish.
Dates:
1778-1836
Fort Selden letters
Collection
Identifier: Ms-0127
Abstract
This collection contains letters to and from former army outpost Fort Selden, New Mexico between 1866-1899.
Dates:
1866-1899
Governor John E. Miles Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-105
Scope and Content
Collection consists of official and personal papers of Governor Miles. Includes correspondence with and reports from various state agencies concerning a broad range of issues such as labor, natural resource conservation, enforcement of the Hatch Act, establishment of the Four Corners Monument, establishment of a Mormon Battalion Monument, and extension of the Navajo Reservation. Also within this collection are reports and other materials concerning the Pecos River Commission, Rio Grande...
Dates:
1939-1942
Photographs of the Mexican Punitive Expedition and the New York National Guard
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: PAAC-0083
Scope and Contents / Alcance y Contenido
This collection consists of an album with a couple of newspaper clippings on Col. Orval P. Townshend, but mostly black and white photographs and postcards of the U.S. Army and New York National Guard. Some photographs were taken in the Rochester, New York area while others were taken during the Mexican Punitive Expedition in New Mexico and Mexico between 1914 and 1919. The album contains photographs of Joseph H. Williams, troop H (cavalry unit), military encampments, and army daily life....
Dates:
ca. 1914 - 1919
Robert W. Frazer Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC-399
Scope and Content
The collection consists of personal papers (financial, family letters, retirement papers, health papers) and research material used by Robert Frazer for his publications, including transcribed copies of letters received by the U.S. Army Dept. in New Mexico (1850s - 1860s) and information on military history and forts in New Mexico and its economic impact.
Dates:
1911-2003
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
Spanish Archives of New Mexico II,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-200
Scope and Content
Collection consists of administrative, civil, military, and ecclesiastical records of the Spanish colonial government in New Mexico, 1621-1821. Records cover both the local and provincial levels, and include correspondence between officials in Santa Fe and Mexico. Few pre-Revolt documents are contained in this collection. Significant documents from the Pueblo Revolt period (1680-1693) include Antonio de Otermin's 1681 journal of the attempted reconquest of New Mexico, and various...
Dates:
1621-1821
Ted Otero Collection of Historical Documents,
Collection
Identifier: 1964-001
Scope and Content
Collection consists primarily of military and personal papers of Bernardo Vasquez-Franco, a commissioned officer in the Mexican army, 1817-1845. The military papers include orders, financial accounts, reports, laws and decrees for several presidios in northern Mexico. These decrees relate to supplies, promotions, distribution of lands, Indian wars, the opening of ports on the Pacific coast, and battles at Rosario. A set of papers dated 1845 concern foreigners and illegal sales in the Santa...
Dates:
1772-1867