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Jessie De Prado Farrington Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: AC 081
Scope and Content
Collection consists of the memoirs of Jessie de Prado Farrington written in 1935. The memoirs discuss Farrington's life and homesteading experiences in the early 1900s in Agua Chicquita Canyon in Otero County, New Mexico. Photographs of Weed, New Mexico, Glen-Eben (Farrington's homestead), and of various people are included. Farrington's memoirs have been published in the New Mexico Historical Review.
Dates:
1935
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
John A. Clark Papers
Collection
Identifier: AC 044
Scope and Content
Collection consists of 25 journals (1861-1868) kept by John A. Clark, Surveyor of the Territory of New Mexico, a typescript of the journals, and a Confederate Army broadside from 1862. The 25 journals contain 1,943 handwritten diary pages, 48 hand drawn maps, about 50 pages, notes, expenses, lists of distances and miscellaneous sketches. Kitty Shishkin has done the typescript copy of the journals. The journals give detailed daily accounts of the writer's official and personal...
Dates:
1861-1868
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
John Angus MacDonald Memoirs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-485-BC
Scope and Content
The manuscript, handwritten by John Angus MacDonald, describes five decades of his life in Colorado and New Mexico from the 1870s to the 1920s. It is not a detailed autobiography and is not in chronological order. There is a brief family history beginning on page 240. MacDonald reminisces about his boyhood in the San Luis Valley in Colorado, describing the customs of the Indians, the different ethnic groups that settled the area and the coming of the railroad. The manuscript contains...
Dates:
1917-1954
John C. Gullette Papers
Collection
Identifier: AC 100-P
Scope and Content
Collection consists of a journal kept by Gullette during a trip exploring and photographing Indian ruins in New Mexico and Arizona; a descriptive list of photographs taken on the trip; and a notebook filled with descriptions of Colorado by Gullette. Collection also includes a typescript of Gullette's journal, which details stops at Chaco Canyon, the Grand Canyon, Enchanted Mesa, and Acoma Pueblo.
Dates:
1899-1900
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
John L. Sinclair Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-461-BC
Scope and Content
The Sinclair Papers, consisting of fiction and non-fiction manuscript materials from the inception of an idea to the published form, comprise an essentially complete record of John Sinclair's long writing career. Additionally, the Sinclair collection is significant for its attention to regional subject matter--the history and lore of the Southwest. Covering the gamut of New Mexico's multicultural heritage from historical facts to tall tales to spiritual realms, Sinclair's writings reflect his...
Dates:
1849-1993
Joseph Bursey Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 028
Scope and Content
Collection consists of papers collected and created by Joseph Bursey, as Director of the New Mexico Tourist Bureau, 1940-1972.
Dates:
1940-1972
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
Louis L. Sweeny Letters Describing Overland Journey to Silver City, NM, 1875
Collection
Identifier: MSS-871-SC
Abstract
The collection consists of three letters written by Louis Sweeny, describing his overland journey from Philadelphia to Silver City, NM, with stops in Denver and Santa Fe.
Dates:
1875
Lucien A. File Research Files,
Collection
Identifier: 1971-006
Scope and Content
Collection consists of the research files of Lucien A. File. Included are research documents, index cards, maps, black and white photographs, and an unfinished manuscript pertaining to mining in New Mexico. A timetable of the history of New Mexico mining is contained within the manuscript. Subjects included are ghost towns, inhabited towns, counties, forts, mining history and locations, and New Mexican history. Also included are clippings pertaining to nearly 300 prominent New Mexicans. Related...
Dates:
1598-1960
Margaret Price Watercolor Portfolio
Collection
Identifier: AC 513-OV
Scope and Content
One portfolio contains several small watercolor paintings depicting scenes in Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. On two pages, business cards are pasted in of (Eastern and Midwestern) writers, journalists, military offices from the Civil War.
Dates:
1878
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
New Mexico Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commission Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-48-BC
Scope and Content
The collection contains reports, programs, press releases, pamphlets, published articles and correspondence relating to the Coronado Cuarto Centennial celebration, 1935 - 1940. It includes information on dramatic presentations, publicity, and tourism promotions for the events. Also included are materials about Coronado Cuarto Centennial events sponsored by the U.S. Coronado Exposition Committee.
Dates:
1935-1940
New Mexico Guide Book Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 332
Scope and Content
Collection consists of pamphlets which reflect the history of Santa Fe and other New Mexico towns as destination for tourists. Advertising aimed at tourists includes guidebooks, maps and brochures, as well as a small section of guidebooks about Arizona, Spain, and Latin America. The collection is open-ended.
Dates:
1891-
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
New Mexico Magazine Collection
Collection
Identifier: PAAC-052
Scope and Content
Collection of thousands of original prints, film negatives, slides and color transparencies. These images were collected or created by New Mexico Magazine staff as well as freelancers, contractors, and the New Mexico state agencies that administered the magazine (i.e. the New Mexico Tourism Department and its predecessors). Throughout its history, the magazine sought to promote and support New Mexico inside and outside the state, with longstanding attention...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930 - 2004
New Mexico Promotional Materials Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0030
Abstract
This collection includes promotional pamphlets and other tourist material regarding the state of New Mexico.
Dates:
1938 - 2012
New Mexico Territorial Bureau of Immigration Records,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-114
Scope and Content
Collection consists of records of the New Mexico Territorial Bureau of Immigration (1880-1911). Includes annual and biennial reports; publications; minutes of annual meetings (1907, 1911); reports from counties on climate, minerals, and agricultural and water resources; and reports from various towns giving population, geographical descriptions, transportation lines, water and fuel resources, industries, climate, schools, banks, and hotels.
Some materials are in Spanish.
Some materials are in Spanish.
Dates:
1880-1911
Overland from Las Vegas, N.M. to Ft. Stanton, N.M.
Collection
Identifier: AC 265-p
Scope and Content
Collection consists of two typed, annotated and revised drafts of a manuscript written in form of a letter. The manuscript describes a pack trip in New Mexico in 1871. The drafts list participants, goods, and livestock taken on the trip. Letter writer described the towns and roads he passed and listed the names of people he met on the trip. He described the scenery and wildlife and daily occurrences.
Dates:
1871
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
R. Hunter Clarkson Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-031
Scope and Content
Collection consists of one scrapbook of newspaper clippings and one folder of pamphlets and other promotional materials on Clarkson Motors and the Indian Detours program.
Dates:
1925-1953
Roland Unwin travel scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-886-SC
Abstract
The scrapbook contains mementos from Roland Unwin’s travels across the United States, as well as materials relating to his journeys by ship between London and the U.S.
Dates:
1912 September-1913 July
Ross Calvin Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-218-BC
Abstract
This collection is comprised of papers pertaining to Ross Calvin, clergyman, author, and resident of New Mexico.
Dates:
1899-1969
Roy Rosen Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-477-BC
Scope and Content
The Roy Rosen Papers consist of journals, short stories, photographs, publications and a few personal papers. His journals are notes about experiences while traveling in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Some also concern his life in Santa Fe and his reactions to personal illness and surgery. Many of his photographs complement the travel journals. Publications containing his photographs are in this collection. Rosen's personal photograph collection is in the CSWR Pictorial...
Dates:
1910-1985
Royal A. Prentice Papers
Collection
Identifier: AC 225
Scope and Content
The collection consists of correspondence and related materials of Royal A. Prentice dating from the 1930s. These literary materials consist of Prentice's correspondence relative to his avid hobby of Southwestern archaeology; which included a very close association with the Museum of New Mexico's Laboratory of Anthropology.
Dates:
1893-1955
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
Ruth W. Armstrong Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-481-BC
Scope and Content
The collection consists of manuscript materials, correspondence, and publications related to Mrs. Armstrong's career as a travel writer. The published material includes poems published between l943-l947, typescripts and tearsheets of articles published from l95l-l986, travel brochures produced in her work with the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, and research and manuscript materials related to her book The Chases of Cimarron, published in l980. A...
Dates:
1943-1993
Ruth W. Armstrong Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: PICT-000-481
Abstract
Contains travel photographs from New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado and other states, as well as Canada and Mexico. Also included are photographs used for Armstrong's book, The Chases of Cimarron.
Dates:
1870-1984; Majority of material found within 1973-1980
Samuel and Claudia Larcombe Vertical File Collection
File
Identifier: MSS-1122-BC
Abstract
The collection, amassed by Samuel and Claudia Larcombe, contains a smattering of materials related to New Mexico counties, cities, towns, arts, culture, politics, environment, tourism, recreation, and resources.
Dates:
1941-2010; Majority of material found in 1975-2000
Santa Fe Transportation Company Bulletins
Collection
Identifier: AC 205
Scope and Content
These books (Part I and Part II) contain Courier Instructional bulletins issued by The Santa Fe Transportation Company from the years 1927-1930. These instructions contain a diverse amount of information ranging from Indian legends, geographical, cultural and historical to administrative duties of couriers regarding schedules, routes, fares, ect. Some of the Bulletins deal only with specific subjects while others contain a variety of subjects, but often related to a specific tour or subject...
Dates:
1927-1930
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
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