Italian Americans -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque

Scope and Content The collection contains 32 interview sessions. There are full transcripts for the interviews with Charles Menicucci and Henry Viviani, Paul Viviani, Anna Viviani Machemehl. There are tape logs for the other 30 interviews. In most cases, biographical sketches of interviewees are included with the tape logs or transcripts. The collection also includes project research and progress reports, publicity, and related research materials dating from 1890-1996.

Scope and Content In 1982, Kathryn Sargeant and Mary Davis began an archaeological survey of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, an incorporated village in the Albuquerque's North Valley. Part of the project involved speaking with local people and asking for permission to walk across and examine their properties for archaeological sites. It became apparent to Sargeant and Davis that the local people had a wealth of historical information in their memories that needed to be documented. Thus, in 1983, the North Valley...