Railroads -- New Mexico

Scope and Content One scrapbook kept by Lutz containing letters, bills, circulars, and other materials. Most of the scrapbook items concern Lutz's work for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, and the U.S. Census Office. There are also materials on mining in the area of Cerrillos, New Mexico.

Scope and Content Collection consists of materials concerning railroad mail service.

Scope and Content Two letters from E. G. Raffety concerning passenger service on the Southern Pacific Lines and oil drilling near Oscuro, NM Letter requesting continuing passenger service for Oscuro, NM from the El Paso Passenger Agent, 1926 Letter requesting assistance in securing oil drilling leases near Oscuro, NM, 1930

Scope and Content Collection consists of materials from the Estancia News Herald. Material in this collection covers the late 1930s and 1940s and includes financial and legal documents, correspondence, ledger books, news releases (i.e. World War II), handbills, circulars, and advertising material (mostly dealing with the newspaper business and agriculture). Some material concern railroads in New Mexico. Collection contains Torrance County, New Mexico, school papers. There is no...

Scope and Content The collection consists of two boxes containing contracts, patents, deeds, abstracts, and certificates of land titles, with companies such as the Cloudcroft Land & Lumber Co., the American Lumber Co., and the McKinley Land & Lumber Co., plus original contracts with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and other railway companies. Correspondence and contracts drawn up by W.A. Keleher, the company attorney are also included, as are letters of Hugo & Lottie V. Seaberg, and...

Scope and Content Collection is made up of a scrapbook containing clippings, letters, photographs, maps and general information on Cloudcroft, White Oaks, and other nearby communities. Also included are two short histories, one on the Eddy Brothers and one on the history of the origin of the name Alamogordo.

Abstract The Railroad Photograph Collection contains photographs of trains and train cars, several taken in New Mexico and Los Angeles, California. The images date back to 1904 and include several photographs and information cards about steam engines developed by Baldwin Locomotive Works. The collection also features photographs of many individual passenger cars. The majority of the collection relates to the Atchison, Topeka. and Santa Fe Railway.

Scope and Content Legal documents, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers dating 1884-1908, relating to Hopewell's prospecting and business management activities. Materials relate to land claims, ranching, mining, and business in various New Mexico counties including Bernalillo, Sandoval, and Sierra County. Some of the documents are placer mining location notices and contracts, coal assignments, options and abstracts on territorial timber lands including some in the Manzano Mountains, and copies of cattle...

Scope and Content The Blackmore Collection includes promotional and research material documenting his investment concerns. Blackmore was instrumental in publishing books about the Southwest, Spanish land grants, Mexican land law and United States Territorial law regarding land grants. 1932 Barbara Aitken, an anthropologist who worked with Edgar Lee Hewett, secured the Blackmore Papers for the Historical Society of New Mexico. The Charles D. Poston papers are part of the Blackmore Collection. Most of...