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Santa Fe (N.M.) -- History

 Subject

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Simms Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC-466-p
Scope and Content

The collection consists of letters regarding historical preservation in Santa Fe. The correspondence, for the most part, addresses the preservation of the Fort Marcy Officers' Residence (also known as the "Hewett House"). There is one broachure, "The Ceremonial Way" in the collection. Also, there is a letter and description of the Girard Foundation Collection from Alexander Girard.

Dates: 1972-1977; Majority of material found in 1975
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Amelia Hollenback Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC-544
Scope and Content The collection consists of diaries, journals, letters, personal and home expenses, social and charitable events, clubs and other organizations, childhood memorabilia, and photographs of the Hollenback family who lived in Pennsylvania, New York and New Mexico. NOTE: The family names and relationships in the genealogy folders (Box 1, Folders 1 and 2) of the Hollenback,Welles, and Beard families The original photographs are in the collections of the New Mexico Photo Archives (HP.2011.26). Most...
Dates: 1820-1970; Majority of material found in 1880-1920
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Association for Preservation of the Old Lamy House Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC-007
Scope and Content

The Association's papers consist of the records of Santa Fe preservationists who unsuccessfully attempted in 1948-49 to save the so-called "Lamy House" and the "Old Santa Fe Trading Post" on Cathedral Place from destruction by the A.T. & S.F. Railroad for expansion of their La Fonda Hotel.

Dates: 1948-1949
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Bergere Family Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: 1975-024
Scope and Content Collection consists of land records (1829-1929) and personal, financial, and professional papers of the A.M. Bergere family and its extended families, the Oteros and the Lunas of Los Lunas, New Mexico (1855-1967). Land records include conveyances and information regarding the Bartolome Baca Land Grant, the Antonio Sandoval Land Grant, the Perea Land Grant, the Tome Land Grant, and the Chilili Land Grant. Financial records contain deeds, correspondence regarding the estate of Eloisa Luna de...
Dates: 1829-1974
Found in: New Mexico State Records Center and Archives

Carl Blumner Letters

 Collection
Identifier: AC-231
Scope and Content Collection consists of handwritten originals, German typescripts, and typed English translations of letters from Carl Blumner to his mother Johanna Blumner and his sister Hannchen in Prussia concerning his and his brother August's activities in Santa Fe. The letters were written between 1936-1909, and include a few attached letters by his brother August as well as a few letters by his son. Collection also includes genealogies of the Blumner familiy, and an obituary of Carl Blumner. Letters...
Dates: 1836-1906
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Chris Emmett Collection of Newspapers and Publication Excerpts

 Collection
Identifier: AC-076
Scope and Content

Collection consists of Chris Emmett's research materials, 1847-1883. Included are typescript excerpts from New Mexican newspapers (primarily from Santa Fe) and from several publications. Excerpts pertain to various New Mexico persons and events in Santa Fe and various other cities. Included is an index to the excerpts created by Emmett.

Dates: 1847-1883
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

David J. Jones Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: 1987-063
Scope and Content Collection consists primarily of materials on churches and watersheds in northern New Mexico. Includes correspondence, minutes, reports and clippings on the restoration of the San Jose de la Gracia Church in Las Trampas; reports and notes on Valle Grande Church in Villanueva; and reports on tree-ring dating the Santa Cruz Church in Santa Cruz and two houses in Santa Fe. Also within the collection are reports and correspondence concerning the Rio Penasco Watershed, an article about the Rio...
Dates: 1916-1980
Found in: New Mexico State Records Center and Archives

E. Dana Johnson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AC-116
Scope and Content

This collection is composed of Johnson's correspondence, but also includes: business papers, poetry, newspaper columns, and other documents pertaining to life in New Mexico. Johnson, a politician and newspaper man, was an ardent advocate of preservation of New Mexico's early civilization.

Dates: 1902-1938
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

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
Found in: New Mexico State Records Center and Archives

Ferenc M. Szasz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-552-BC
Abstract The collection consists of records of F.B.I. investigations about convicted spy Klaus Fuchs, and research materials related to Szasz's writings such as, "The Culture of Modern New Mexico, 1940-1970," and "Tony Hillerman and the turn-of-the-century American Southwest" and for his book, Great Mysteries of the West The collection also contains research materials pertaining to the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, the Trinity Site, World War...
Dates: 1894-2005; Majority of material found in 1942-1999
Found in: UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections

George Fitzpatrick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC-086
Scope and Content

Assorted papers including correspondence, memoranda, misc. documents and notes. Draft manuscripts on various New Mexico personalities and subjects. Eleven donated books integrated into museum collection. Articles and clippings were integrated into the libray's verticle files.

Dates: 1928-1982
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Hollenback Family Photo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0096
Scope and Content The bulk of the collection consists of family photos, including studio portraits and snapshots of varying sizes and formats. The majority of these date from about the 1860s to the 1940s; however, the collection also includes photos, negatives, notes, and a partial collection inventory made by historian and author Mary J. Cook in the 1980s as part of her research into Amelia Hollenback. Of special interest are the large number of cartes de visite, tintypes, and cabinet cards contained in the...
Dates: 1861 - 1986; Majority of material found within ca. 1870s-ca. 1940s
Found in: NMHM Palace of the Governors Photo Archives

James Josiah Webb Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS -232 -SC
Abstract

The James J. Webb Correspondence consists of ten hand-written letters discussing business practices and salaries related to Webb's trading business and politics in New Mexico.

Dates: 1852-1864
Found in: UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections

James Josiah Webb Memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: AC-236-p
Scope and Content

Collection consists of a typescript of Webb's journal entitled "Memoirs of James J. Webb, Merchant in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1844." The memoirs describe Webb's business in Santa Fe and his journey across the Santa Fe Trail. Includes materials on two of Webb's business partners, John M. Kingsbury and William S. Messervy.

Dates: 1844
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 Paul Delgado Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-024
Scope and Content Collection consists of the John Paul Delgado papers (1910-1992) and the military papers of Manuel Delgado (1774-1804). The bulk of the collection covers the years 1910-1992. John Paul Delgado papers include some materials concerning his grandfather Benjamin Read, genealogical materials concerning the Delgado Family, and various clippings and other materials concerning John Paul Delgado's acting career. Also includes black and white photographs of John Paul and the Delgado Family, photocopies...
Dates: 1774-1992 (bulk 1910-1992)
Found in: New Mexico State Records Center and Archives

Josephine Insley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC-182-p
Scope and Content

Collection consists of two items: a letter written to her by her aunt Josephine in honor of her birth [transfer 10828]and her Santa Fe High School diploma from 1948 [10830].

Dates: 1929; 1948
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Manuel Antonio Chaves Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC-039
Scope and Content

The Manuel Antonio Chaves papers contain correspondence and transcriptions concerning Manuel Antonio Chaves' ancestry and military career. Much of the correspondence is written by his son, Amado Chaves. Marc Simmons assembled the addenda to the Manuel Antonio Chaves Collection. The file contains copies of documentation of Manuel Antonio Chaves' military career between 1861 and 1863.

Most of the papers in this collection are xerox copies.

Dates: 1861-1970
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

New Mexico Central Railroad Co. Ledger Book

 Collection
Identifier: AC-159-s
Scope and Content

One ledger book of deed descriptions and hand-drawn maps of property in Santa Fe owned by the New Mexico Central Railroad Co. Includes information on a depot shared with the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.

Dates: 1918
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

New Mexico Historical Records Survey and New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Miscellany,

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-14-SC
Scope and Content This collection is comprised of 7 miscellaneous typed items, perhaps never sent to the Library of Congress during the New Deal era. Item 3 was removed and cataloged - See Separated Materials. These papers provide a small sample of the work done in the state under two of the New Deal Federal Work Progress Administration programs. Included are five undated submissions by New Mexico researchers to the Historical Records Survey Division. There is a translation of the 1760s document for the...
Dates: 1909-1939
Found in: UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections

New Mexico Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC-425
Scope and Content

The collection consists of taped interviews with prominent people from Santa Fe and New Mexico. All but one tape include transcripts. According to the interviewees, it appears that the oral histories were gathered as part of the Upper Canyon Road Project.Interviewers and project are not identified.

Dates: 1984-1987
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Olinda Rodriguez Fiesta Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC-491
Scope and Content

Collection contains personal notes pertaining to Santa Fe Fiesta, and newspaper clippings (loose and scrapbook).

Dates: 1936-1938
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Olinda Rodriquez Santa Fe Fiesta Collection

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: HP.2010.02
Dates: ca. 1936-1938
Found in: NMHM Palace of the Governors Photo Archives

Santa Fe Fiesta Council Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC-401
Scope and Content

The collection consists of correspondence, committee reports, board, and general meeting minutes, newsclippings, financial information, events and parades information, De Vargas and La Reina contestant applications, and materials relating to the promotion and the operation of the Santa Fe Fiesta. Collection includes by-laws, operating manuals, and contracts.

Dates: 1919-2003
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Santa Fe Military Band Announcements

 Collection
Identifier: AC-511-p
Scope and Content

Collection consists of two announcements (2 items) of concerts in Santa Fe: 10th Cavalry Band (part of the Buffalo soldiers), 1887 [transfer 4636/45]; 10th US Infantry Band, 1892 [transfer 4895/45

Dates: 1887, 1892
Found in: Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

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