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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
Work Projects Administration Collection,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-232
Scope and Content
Collection consists of the administrative records, research files, and miscellaneous documents of the Work Projects Administration, the Writers' Program and their predecessors in New Mexico. Administrative records (series I, 1935-1943) include correspondence, typescript drafts of proposed sections for a guidebook and various other records. Research files from the Federal Writers' Project in New Mexico (series II-XII, 1909-1971) were created and collected under the direction of State Director...
Dates:
1909-1971 (bulk 1930-1946); (1935-1943); (1930-1942); (1936-1940); (1936-1939); (1909-1939); (1936-1937); (1934-1939); (1936-1938); (1936-1971); (1935-1939); (1936-1946); (1930-1933); (1938-1942); (1938-1941)
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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- Folklore -- New Mexico 3
- New Mexico -- History -- 1848- 3
- Oral histories 3
- Cities and towns -- New Mexico 2
- Hispanic Americans -- New Mexico 2
- Agriculture --New Mexico--History 1
- Alabados 1
- Archaeology -- New Mexico 1
- Art--Slides 1
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- Education in New Mexico 1
- Federal Writers' Project. New Mexico 1
- Folk music--New Mexico 1
- Folk songs, Spanish -- New Mexico 1
- Folklore 1
- Folklore and history -- New Mexico 1
- Hymns 1
- Indians of North America -- New Mexico 1
- Interviews -- Sound recordings 1
- Landscape photographs 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Mexican Americans – Southwest, New -- Ethnic identity 1
- Mines and mineral resources -- New Mexico 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 -- Commerce 1
- New Mexico -- Description and travel 1
- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century 1
- New Mexico -- Religious life and customs 1
- New Mexico -- Social life and customs 1
- New Mexico -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes 1
- New Mexico – Ethnic relations 1
- Oral History -- New Mexico 1
- Photographs 1
- Ranching -- New Mexico 1
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- Federal Writers' Project. New Mexico 2
- Cassidy, Ina Sizer, 1869-1965 1
- Lopez, Alejandro, 1951- 1
- Thorp, N. Howard (Nathan Howard), 1867-1940 1
- United States. Work Projects Administration 1
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