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Buckner Collection of Elizabeth Garrett Materials,

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-025
Scope and Content Collection consists of materials relating to the career of Elizabeth Garrrett, a blind singer and daughter of Sheriff Pat Garrett. Elizabeth Garrett served on the faculty of the New Mexico School for the Visually Handicapped and wrote "O Fair New Mexico," which was adopted as the official state song in 1917. In addition to various typed manuscript drafts of Buckner's unpublished biography of Garrett, the collection also contains articles and newspaper clippings about Garrett; letters about...
Dates: 1893-1992 (bulk, 1965-1966)

Rudy Padilla Collection of Pano Art,

 Collection
Identifier: 1994-028
Scope and Content Collection consists of correspondence, published articles, audio tapes of interviews, photographs and other graphics describing and depicting pano art or "handkerchief art," a folk art tradition that originated among incarcerated Hispanics. Padilla and artist Mark Garcia were interviewed in 1991, and Padilla was interviewed in 1994 by Rudy Miera.
Dates: 1991-1994