Oral history of a family practitioner, Dr. C. Pardue Bunch (1913-1985), who practiced for forty years in Artesia, New Mexico. Among the subjects covered are personal and professional backgrounds, practice in a rural community, personal interests in hypnosis and psychosomatic illnesses, the medical community of the Pecos Valley, and the New Mexico Medical Society.

This collection consists of biographical and professional materials surveying the life and medical career of Dr. C. (Charles) Pardue Bunch. Correspondence, personal records, photographs, and writings cover the life and forty year medical practice of a rural doctor in a small town in New Mexico.

The family papers include a variety of letters, photographs, and other materials related to the lives of Milton and Gertrude Thomas. The majority of the letters are between Gertrude and Milton during his service in World War I. The photographs in the collection include cabinet card images from the 1880s, capturing life in La Mesa, Luling, and Gonzales, Texas, as well as in eastern New Mexico areas such as Portales, Clovis, Artesia, and Monument.

This collection contains the final transcript and two audio tapes of an oral history with Dr. Robert Cushing Derbyshire (1910-1987), an active physician in New Mexico for over 33 years. Also contains memorial clippings and a copy of the eulogy read at Dr. Derbyshire's funeral.