Showing Collections: 1 - 25 of 28
A.A. Jones Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1960-025
Scope and Content
Collection consists of the legal, personal, and political papers of A.A. Jones. The bulk of the collection consists of legal papers which include several land grant, business, and probate case records. Land grant case records pertain to the Maxwell, Preston Beck, Mora, Las Vegas, and Eaton land grants. Included in the land grant case records are the papers of James and Helen Beck and New Mexico Chief Justice Elisha V. Long's opinion on the Las Vegas Land Grant. Companies involved in the...
Dates:
1862-1927
Aamodt Water Case Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 482
Scope and Content
The collection contains legal and organizational documentation concerning the water rights case. The vertical file at the Fray Angelico Chavez History Library contains extensive newspaper clippings on the case.
Dates:
1966-1993
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
Arthur Rochford Manby Papers
Collection
Identifier: AC 325
Scope and Content
Collection consists of legal papers and correspondence to and from and about Arthur Rochford Manby and the companies in which he had financial interests, specifically the Taos Valley Land Comapny, the Mutual Trust Company, and the Colonial Bond and Security Company. The collection contains papers dealing with water and mining rights in New Mexico and other interests. There are also tax receipts and land documents pertaining to his properties and various newspaper clippings. In addition, there...
Dates:
1716-1935
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
Donaciano Vigil Collection,
Collection
Identifier: 1961-003
Scope and Content
Collection consists of Donaciano Vigil's military, family, and personal papers which span the Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. Territorial periods of New Mexico history. Spanish period documents contain land conveyances and abstracts of land primarily in Santa Fe (1770-1803), an inventory of civil and criminal proceedings (1766-1767), and a will (1820). Mexican period documents cover a wide range of New Mexico subjects. Some of the subjects are Vigil's military career (1834-1841), military affairs...
Dates:
1727-1877, bulk 1841-1877
Eddy County, N.M. Records,
Collection
Identifier: 1974-035
Scope and Content
Collection consists of the records of Eddy County, New Mexico (1888-1991). The bulk of the material covers the dates 1891-1922. Included are the records of the county clerk (1891-1972, 1990-1991), sheriff (1896-1922), assessor (1891-1911), county commissioners (1891-1932), justice of the peace (1900-1940), probate court (1888-1915), superintendent of schools (1891-1923), treasurer (1891-1913), coroner (1892-1912), surveyor (1891-1908), road supervisor and overseer (1901-1910), and miscellaneous...
Dates:
1888-1991(Bulk 1891-1922)
Edward L. Bartlett Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1960-003
Scope and Content
Collection consists of Bartlett's official correspondence as Solicitor General of the Territory of New Mexico (1890-1902); and professional papers from his legal practice (1880-1904). Solicitor General correspondence includes letters received from Frank Springer, Elfego Baca, Frederick Muller, and Pinkerton's National Detective Agency concerning Charles Siringo. Topics covered in the correspondence include the Rough Riders, Jicarilla Apaches, territorial penitentiary, Fort Marcy, and the...
Dates:
1863-1904
Elephant Butte Irrigation District records,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-0235
Abstract
Organized in 1918 after the Elephant Butte Dam was built, EBID replaced the Elephant Butte Water Users Association as a means to manage water rights and pay off the debt of the dam's construction to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The records here come from the district's executive operations as well as its main functions, in forms ranging from small cards to large maps.
Dates:
1880 - 1981; Majority of material found within 1904 - 1970
Emma Gerhardt Rorick Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 193
Scope and Content
Collection consists primarily of materials concerning Tucumcari, and Quay County, New Mexico. Includes promotional pamphlets from 1910 on the towns of Tucumcari and San Jon in Quay County; a 1912 document transferring water rights from Herman Gerhardt to the Tucumcari Irrigation Co.; and various letters and announcements received by the Gerhardt family of Tucumcari. Also within the collection is a program from the "First Annual New Mexico Cowboys Reunion," held in Las Vegas, New Mexico in 1915.
Dates:
n.d.
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
Eugene A. Fiske Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1960-017
Scope and Content
Collection consists primarily of Fiske's professional papers. Series I consists of various legal documents, including a contract retaining Fiske as defense attorney in the trial of James G. Whitney for the murder of Manuel B. Otero, and 67 pages of testimony from the case of Edward Miller v. Alphonso Dockweiler over water rights involving the Rio Tesuque, Acequia Madre, and Acequia del Medio in northern New Mexico. Series II consists of legal documents, deeds, land conveyances, and other...
Dates:
1840-1968 (bulk 1840-1909)
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 Compact...
Dates:
1939-1942
Governor Merritt C. Mechem Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-098
Scope and Content
Collection consists of official papers of Governor Mechem. Correspondence concerns a variety of subjects, including conveyances of federal public lands, the fence controversy at Tesuque Pueblo, the possible creation of a national park on the Mescalero Indian Reservation, and Japanese immigration. Proclamations involve quarantines in response to several types of weevils. Special reports and investigations include the failure of the Santa Fe Bank, discrimination against Spanish-Americans at the...
Dates:
1908-1925 ( bulk 1921-1922)
Governor William T. Thornton Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-089
Scope and Content
Collection consists of official papers of Governor Thornton. Includes letters received, appointments, resignations, proclamations, reports, and penal papers. Some of the materials relate specifically to mining accidents and water rights in New Mexico.
Dates:
1893-1897
Guadalupe County, N.M. Records,
Collection
Identifier: 1974-020
Scope and Content
Collection consists of the records of Guadalupe County, New Mexico (1893-1942). Included are records of the county clerk (1893-1930), assessor (1893-1923), sheriff (1912-1931), county commissioners (1893-1928), justice of the peace (1902-1946), probate court (1893-1928), superintendent of schools and board of education (1910-1925), and miscellaneous records (1911-1942). Clerk's records include license registers, oaths and bonds, poll books, articles of incorporation, chattel mortgages, and...
Dates:
1893-1942 (Bulk, 1893-1923)
Henry A. Kiker Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-57-BC
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence and other papers relating to legal cases of Henry A. Kiker, and the law firm of Bickley & Kiker, 1879-1934.
Dates:
1879-1934; Majority of material found within 1901-1934
John Nichols Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-820-BC
Abstract
John Nichols' papers document a wide range of history and culture and personal connections in New Mexico (and elsewhere) over the last 55 years. The collection contains manuscripts, screenplays, correspondence, speeches, artwork, journals, photographs, slides, and videos.
Dates:
1957-2018
La Jicarita Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1107-BC
Abstract
The collection focuses on environmental and social justice issues in Northern New Mexico.
Dates:
1990-2019
Manuel A. Sanchez Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1971-013
Scope and Content
Collection consists of records and correspondence from Manuel Sanchez's law practice. Includes case files, carbon copies of letters sent and legal documents, clients' letters received, briefs, and law reports and related material on a wide range of subjects.
Some materials are in Spanish.
Some materials are in Spanish.
Dates:
1802-1969 (bulk, 1920-1950)
Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-0252
Abstract
Headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District serves portions of Sandoval, Bernalillo, Valencia, and Socorro Counties. Records include official minutes from 1925 to1952, a 1940 economic survey, photographs from the 1930s-1940s and a videotaped documentary from the 1980s.
Dates:
1925-ca. 1985; 1925-ca. 1985; Majority of material found in 1925-1952
Napoleon B. Laughlin Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-134
Scope and Content
Collection consists of case files and a variety of documents such as wills, deeds, and estate records from legal cases handled by Laughlin. Series I includes materials on homestead claims and businesses such as the Globe Land Co. and the La Fonda Hotel. Series II includes materials on acequias and water rights, banks (including the First National Bank of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Bank), mining companies (including the Rio Arriba Coal Co.), and the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Co. Series III...
Dates:
1740-1933
New Mexico State Engineer Records,
Collection
Identifier: 1971-003
Content Note
As of 2000 collection consists of records of the New Mexico State Engineer, its predecessor the Territorial Engineer, and the Interstate Stream Commission, which is a statutorily separate agency coordinated and directed by the State Engineer (1888-1992). Includes biennial reports (1932-1978), one annual report from 1979, minutes, legal documents, publications, and ledger books. Most of the records concern water rights, water conservation, irrigation, flood control, and water resources. Includes...
Dates:
1888-[ongoing].
Records of the United States Territorial and New Mexico District Court Clerks,
Collection
Identifier: 1974-033
Scope and Content
Collection consists of the court clerk correspondence for the 1st Judicial District Court, the 3rd Judicial District Court, the 4th Judicial District Court, the 6th Judicial District Court, and the 8th Judicial District Court (1879-1970). The bulk of correspondence covers the years 1879-1912 and 1960-1970. Some correspondence for the 1st and 4th Judicial District Courts is located in letterpress books (1897-1911). Collection also includes criminal and civil cases for Bernalillo, Chavez, Colfax,...
Dates:
1853-1970 (Bulk 1882-1960)
Richard E. Greenleaf Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-769-BC
Abstract
Richard Greenleaf's papers deal with major people and events during the initial decades of Spanish presence in Mexico. The collection mainly consists of Greenleaf's typed Spanish transcriptions and English translations of colonial documents from the the Archivo General de Indias of Seville and the Archivo General de Nación of Mexico City.
Dates:
1519-2004
Rio Arriba County, N.M. Records,
Collection
Identifier: 1974-024
Scope and Content
Collection consists of the records of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (1847-1957). The bulk of the materials cover the years 1847 to 1900. Included are records of the county clerk (1847-1938), assessor (1870-1912), sheriff (1849-1927), county commission (1882-1927), justice of the peace (1852-1938, 1957), probate court (1848-1918), and coroner's inquests (1883-1937). County Clerk records include registers of deeds, oaths and bonds, marriages, licenses, mines, and partido contracts; poll and tally...
Dates:
1847-1957 ( Bulk 1870-1900)
Spanish Archives of New Mexico I,
Collection
Identifier: 1972-002
Scope and Content
Collection consists of civil land records of the Spanish and Mexican period governments of New Mexico, and materials created by the Surveyor General and Court of Private Land Claims during the process of adjudication. Includes petitions for land grants, land conveyances, wills, mine registers, records books, journals, dockets, reports, minutes, letters, and a variety of legal documents. Also within the collection is the Vigil Index, an inventory of the documents in the custody of Donaciano...
Dates:
1685-1912
Suaso Family Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1960-041
Scope and Content
Collection consists of the papers of the Suaso family of Embudo, New Mexico. Includes land conveyances (1751-1801), wills of Josefa Martin (1786) and Juan Antonio Suaso (1818), and a petition made by Josefa Martin for the protection of her childrens inheritance rights to an acequia (1786). Also within the collection are fragments of documents involving a land dispute between Diego Antonio Duran and Juan Cordova (1826), a note by Governor Juan Bautista de Anza regarding a decree directed at...
Dates:
1751-1826
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Repository
- New Mexico State Records Center and Archives 17
- UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections 5
- Fray Angélico Chávez History Library 4
- New Mexico State University Library Archives and Special Collections 2
- Subject
- Water rights -- New Mexico 21
- Wills 9
- Legal files 8
- New Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1848-1950 8
- Conveyances 5
- New Mexico -- Officials and employees 5
- Account books 4
- Administrative agencies -- New Mexico 4
- Annual reports 4
- Articles of incorporation 4
- Bonds (legal records) 4
- Judicial records 4
- Lawyers -- New Mexico 4
- Legal documents 4
- Licenses 4
- Marriage records 4
- Reports 4
- Tax records 4
- Civil procedure -- New Mexico 3
- Deeds 3
- Governors -- New Mexico 3
- Local government -- Records 3
- Maxwell Land Grant (N.M. and Colo.) 3
- Mora Land Grant (N.M.) 3
- New Mexico -- History -- 1848- 3
- Notarial documents 3
- Piedra Lumbre Land Grant (N.M.) 3
- Proclamations 3
- State government records 3
- Territorial records 3
- Voting registers 3
- Addresses 2
- Americans -- Mexico 2
- Antonio Martinez Land Grant (N.M.) 2
- Caja del Rio Land Grant (N.M.) 2
- Census records 2
- Cieneguilla Land Grant (N.M.) 2
- Columbus (N.M.) -- History 2
- Contracts 2
- Criminal procedure -- New Mexico 2
- Deed books 2
- Eddy County (N.M.) -- History 2
- Extradition -- New Mexico 2
- Homestead law -- New Mexico 2
- Irrigation and canals and flumes New Mexico 2
- Land grants -- New Mexico 2
- Land grants New Mexico 2
- Land titles -- New Mexico 2
- Letters 2
- Lincoln County (N.M.) -- History 2
- Minutes (Records) 2
- Mortgages 2
- New Mexico -- History -- To 1848 2
- Pardon -- New Mexico 2
- Preston Beck Land Grant (N.M.) 2
- Pueblo Indians -- Land tenure 2
- Rio Arriba County (N.M.) -- History 2
- Rio Grande -- Water rights 2
- San Juan County (N.M.) -- History 2
- Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration 2
- Trial and arbitral proceedings 2
- Valencia County (N.M.) -- History 2
- Abstracts 1
- Acequia Madre (N.M.) 1
- Acequia del Medio (N.M.) 1
- Affidavits 1
- Agricultural pests -- New Mexico 1
- Albuquerque (N.M.) -- Social life and customs 1
- American Literature -- New Mexico 1
- Antonio Sedilla Land Grant (N.M.) 1
- Archives --New Mexico--Catalogs 1
- Arroyo Hondo Land Grant (N.M.) 1
- Articles 1
- Bandelier National Monument (N.M.) 1
- Bankruptcy -- New Mexico 1
- Banks and banking -- New Mexico 1
- Belen (N.M.) -- Census -- 1918 1
- Bernalillo County (N.M.) -- History 1
- Bishops -- Mexico 1
- Brazitos Land Grant (N.M.) 1
- Bureau of Reclamation--History. 1
- Cartoons & Comics 1
- Case files 1
- Chavez County (N.M.) -- History 1
- Christianity -- Conversion 1
- Citizenship papers 1
- Civil defense --New Mexico 1
- Clippings 1
- Coal Strike, Gallup, N.M., 1933 1
- Cochiti Indians Land tenure 1
- Colfax County (N.M.) -- History 1
- Colfax County (N.M.) -- Trials, litigation, etc. 1
- Conejos Land Grant (N.M.) 1
- Conservation of natural resources -- New Mexico 1
- Conservation of natural resources --New Mexico 1
- Coroners -- New Mexico -- Eddy County 1
- Coroners -- New Mexico -- Guadalupe County 1
- Coroners -- New Mexico -- Valencia County 1
- Coroners -- Rio Arriba County (N.M.) 1
- Courts -- New Mexico 1 ∧ less
- Language
- Undetermined 19
- French 1
- Spanish; Castilian 1
- Names
- Baca, Elfego, 1864-1945 2
- Catron, Thomas Benton, 1840-1921 2
- Vigil, Donaciano, 1802-1877 2
- Aamodt, R. Lee, 1917-2006 1
- Albuquerque & Cerrillos Coal Company 1
- Anderson, Clinton Presba, 1895-1975 1
- Armijo family 1
- Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company 1
- Axtell, Samuel B. (Samuel Beach), 1819-1891 1
- Bartlett, Edward L. 1
- Bickley & Kiker 1
- Billy, the Kid 1
- Catron & Catron 1
- Catron, C. C. 1
- Catron, Fletcher A. (Fletcher Arthur), b. 1890 1
- Chavez, Dennis, 1888-1962 1
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
- Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547 1
- Delgadillo, Diego de 1
- Fall, Albert B. (Albert Bacon), 1861-1944 1
- Fergusson, Erna, 1888-1964 1
- First National Bank of Santa Fe 1
- Greenleaf, Richard E. 1
- Gross, Kelly & Company, Inc 1
- Guzmán, Nuño de, 1410?-1475? 1
- Hatch, Carl Atwood, 1889-1963 1
- Jones, Andrieus Aristieus, 1862-1927 1
- Keleher family 1
- Keleher, Loretta Barrett, d. 2000 1
- Keleher, William A. (William Aloysius), 1886-1972 1
- Ketchum, Black Jack, 1863-1901 1
- Kiker, Henry A. 1
- La Fonda (Hotel : Santa Fe, N.M.) 1
- Leyba, Juan B. 1
- Matienzo, Juan Ortiz de 1
- Matthews, Kay 1
- Maxwell Land Grant Company 1
- Mechem, E. L. (Edwin Leard), 1912-2002 1
- Mitchell, Albert K., b. 1894 1
- New Mexico. Governor (1939-1942 : Miles) 1
- Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940- 1
- Paz, Rodrigo de 1
- Pyle, Ernie, 1900-1945 1
- Salazar, Gonzalo de 1
- Siringo, Charles A., 1855-1928 1
- Tingley, Clyde 1
- United States. Army. Volunteer Cavalry, 1st 1
- United States. Pueblo Lands Board 1
- United States. Work Projects Administration 1
- Zumárraga, Juan de, 1468-1548 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more