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Alfonso Sanchez papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-803-BC
Abstract
Alfonso Sanchez was the District Attorney for Rio Arriba County during the land struggle of Reies Lopez Tijerina and the Alianza Federal de las Mercedes. The collection consists of biographical materials pertaining to Alfonso Sanchez, as well as materials pertaining to the Tierra Amarillo land grant and Reies Lopez Tijerina.
Dates:
1856-2004; Majority of material found within 1955-1970
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.
Collection is in Spanish.
Dates:
1778-1836
Catholic Church Report Regarding New Mexico Missions
Collection
Identifier: MSS-22-SC
Abstract
This collection contains records regarding the status of the various missions in northern New Mexico in 1794 as communicated to the Province of the Holy Evangel of Our Holy Father San Francisco of Mexico City.
Dates:
1794
Contreras Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-52-BC
Abstract
This collection is comprised of business and private papers pertaining to Abram Contreras, Felipe Peralta, Emiliano Contreras and their relatives who resided in Socorro County, central New Mexico, in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Dates:
1820-1944
Dan Chavez Papers on the History of New Mexico Government
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1033-BC
Abstract
The collection contains the research and manuscript of Dan D. Chavez for his book on Soledad Chacon. Included are documents related to her and her family, letters to her, and an interview with her daughter, Lena Ward. There are also materials by and about the writer, Felipe M. Chacon, a relative of Soledad. Further, it has annotated lists of New Mexico political and judicial officials researched by Chavez. In addition, the collection has some of Chavez's preliminary work on Octaviano Larrazolo...
Dates:
1872-2016; Majority of material found within 1970-1999
D'Armand Collection of Spanish Language Documents,
Collection
Identifier: MSS-121-SC
Scope and Content
This is a collection of nine Spanish language documents from the Spanish, Mexican, and Territorial periods of New Mexico, dating from 1792-1871. Five of the documents provide an insightful view of New Mexico society, government, defense, and economy during the late Spanish colonial period. Two each are from the Mexican and Territorial periods. The censuses for 1792 and 1796 have demographic breakdowns giving married persons, widowers, bachelors, and children, servants, Indians, and mestizos,...
Dates:
1792-1871
Democratic Party (N.M.) State Central Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-66-BC
Scope and Content
Boxes 1-3 of this collection contain correspondence. The material is arranged chronologically. There are letters relative to the organization of the committee in New Mexico as well as the national committee, political patronage issues with specific instances, letters of thanks to donors, requests from New Mexico precinct leaders and committee chairman for voters and tax payers lists, letters reporting on voting irregularities, and other issues. Correspondence with New Mexico representatives in...
Dates:
1916-1955 (bulk 1916-1936)
Design and Planning Assistance Center Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1087-BC
Scope and Contents
This collection houses projects worked on by the Design and Planning Assistance Center, housed within the Community and Regional Planning Program, University of New Mexico. Included in the collection are transportation plans, progress reports, development plans, studies, guides, design agendas, management strategies, city codes and ordinances.
Dates:
1945 - 2017
Documents from the Archivo General de Indias and other related archives
Collection
Identifier: MSS-841-BC
Abstract
The collection contains selected Spanish documents copied from the Archivo General de Indias and other archives in Spain, the Vatican Library, and U.S. Libraries, with related transcriptions and notes. Mainly focused on the colonial history of New Mexico and New Spain, with some materials for the Caribbean, Latin America, Philippines, and the U.S. Borderlands.
Dates:
1508-1821; Majority of material found within 1521-1780
Dolores Goddard Collection of Elfego Baca
Collection
Identifier: MSS-802-BC
Abstract
This is a collection of correspondence, photos, newspaper clippings and articles about Elfego Baca as retained by his family after his death and collected in subsequent years. They provide a view of Baca’s political, business and family life beyond the well-known 1884 gunfight in Socorro County.
Dates:
1884-1961
Eleanor B. Adams Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-826-BC
Abstract
Eleanor B. Adams' papers contain photocopies, transcriptions and translations of colonial documents relating to the history of New Mexico and colonial New Spain. It contains a few original Spanish documents as well. There are also correspondences with other scholars and unpublished works related to historiography, as well as New World and New Mexico maps from the colonial and territorial eras.
Dates:
1492-2000
Elmer Martinez Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1004-BC
Abstract
The collection deals with the career of Elmer Martinez and his various activities to teach about the Hispanic heritage of New Mexico and the Southwest. It includes correspondence, articles, photographs, maps and posters. Among them are his papers about the Spanish Village at the State Fair, the Colonial Infantry of Albuquerque color guard unit, the Spanish History Museum, a run for New Mexico State Representative, and his views and commentaries. It also contains material from others, including...
Dates:
1959-2015
France V. Scholes Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-360-BC
Abstract
The France V. Scholes Papers contain research and teaching notes, maps and correspondence about the colonial history of Mexico, Yucatan and New Mexico, with some related material about the Caribbean, Central and Latin America. The collection also includes academic and personal information.
Dates:
1492-1979; Majority of material found within 1521-1700
Governor Francisco Cuerbo y Valdes Colonial Affairs documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS977sc
Abstract
Partial hand written contemporaneous copy originals (10 leaves) of communications by Francisco Cuerbo y Valdes, Governor of New Mexico to Viceroy of New Spain in Mexico City related to affairs in New Mexico and particularly in Albuquerque.
Dates:
1706
Howard Bryan Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 578
Scope and Content
Material pertains to Howard Bryan's bi-weekly Albuquerque Tribune column “Off the Beaten Path” which ran from 1953 to 1990. This collection contains clippings of those columns as well as the correspondence and research material he used to produce the column. Material includes awards, photographs and miscellaneous items.
Dates:
1940-2000; Majority of material found in 1970s-1980s
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
Jane C. Sanchez Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-872-BC
Abstract
This collection contains papers of Jane C. Sanchez, a historian and playwright in New Mexico. The materials relate to her research primarily regarding land grants, colonial history, Spanish and Mexican law, and storylines for theatrical and movie productions.
Dates:
1663-2004; Majority of material found within 1966-2004
José Ignacio Alari Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-279 -SC
Abstract
This collection consists of six documents from the late 1700s and early 1800s regarding the estates of the Alari family.
Dates:
1785-1831
Josephine Barela Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-383-BC
Abstract
This collection contains documents pertaining to San Rafael (New Mexico) resident and author Josephine Barela and her publication, Ojo del Gallo.
Dates:
1875-1976; Majority of material found in 1971-1975
Juan Martinez de Montoya Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 143
Scope and Content
A bound collection of sixty-one pages of letters and testimony concerning New Mexico and dating from circa 1785 until 1835. The documents were gathered in Spain as the result of two petitions (one in 1785, one in 1835) by Martinez de Montoya's descendants to inherit the noble rights received by him in 1606. This collection's transcripts of documents are especially important because they are notarized by Spanish officials as accurate and suggest an earlier date for the founding of Santa Fe than...
Dates:
1785-1835
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
L. Bradford Prince Papers,
Collection
Identifier: MSS-109-BC
Scope and Content
This collection consists of Spanish language documents from 18th and 19th century New Mexico, 1800s circulars from New Mexico printing presses and the personal papers of Le Baron Bradford Prince. Personal papers include family, business, and political correspondence, invitations to the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition and to a dinner/dance given by the Society of Mayflower Descendants, as well as a circular for the lecture series, "Romance of the South West" given by...
Dates:
1772-1922
Lansing B. Bloom Papers,
Collection
Identifier: MSS-110-BC
Scope and Content
The collection is divided into two series: Lansing Bloom Personal Papers/AGI Research and the John Gregory Bourke Papers. The Bloom series, which is box 1 of the collection, contains Bloom's private papers and descriptive lists of hundreds of documents pertaining to Northern Mexico, New Mexico and Southwest history from the AGI that Bloom located and copied. The numbers in the lists that he assigned to the documents also appear on the photostats of the documents themselves in the...
Dates:
1540-1946 (bulk 1870-1946)
Maria G. Duran Collection,
Collection
Identifier: 1960-016
Scope and Content
Collection consists primarily of documents concerning the area of Abiquiu, New Mexico. Among the documents are wills, hijuelas (estate records) and conveyances involving estates and property; and government circulars regarding trade with the Indians, raising militias, and war with the United States. Specific items include several 1846 documents pertaining to the Mexican War such as Governor Manuel Armijo's warning of impending war, and printed orders of U.S. General Stephen Watts Kearny...
Dates:
1785-1846 (bulk 1843-1846)
Martin Gardesky Collection of Historical Documents,
Collection
Identifier: 1960-019
Scope and Content
Collection consists of original documents, translations, and photostats primarily concerning people and events in New Mexico and Mexico. Documents on New Mexico include a 1681 journal of Antonio de Otermin relating to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680; a photostat of a 1710 royal decree by the Duke of Albuquerque suppressing a bible printed in London; and the report of a 1749 investigation by Governor Tomas Velez de Cachupin regarding French incursions into Taos, New Mexico. English translations...
Dates:
1612-1912
Mauro Montoya Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 152
Scope and Content
Mauro Montoya Collection documents significant episodes of New Mexico history during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The documents are divided into the four main periods: Spanish period, The Mexican period, U.S. Territorial period (incl. U.S. military occupation), New Mexico Statehood period.
Dates:
1709-1949
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
Miguel Antonio Lovato Papers,
Collection
Identifier: MSS-137-SC
Abstract
This collection contains seven Spanish documents, written by or related to Miguel Antonio Lovato, resident of Galisteo and Santa Fe, New Mexico in the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century.
Dates:
1790-1849
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