New Mexico -- Description and travel
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
New Mexico Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commission Records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-48-BC
Scope and Content
The collection contains reports, programs, press releases, pamphlets, published articles and correspondence relating to the Coronado Cuarto Centennial celebration, 1935 - 1940. It includes information on dramatic presentations, publicity, and tourism promotions for the events. Also included are materials about Coronado Cuarto Centennial events sponsored by the U.S. Coronado Exposition Committee.
Dates:
1935-1940
New Mexico Guide Book Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 332
Scope and Content
Collection consists of pamphlets which reflect the history of Santa Fe and other New Mexico towns as destination for tourists. Advertising aimed at tourists includes guidebooks, maps and brochures, as well as a small section of guidebooks about Arizona, Spain, and Latin America. The collection is open-ended.
Dates:
1891-
New Mexico Magazine Collection
Collection
Identifier: PAAC-052
Scope and Content
Collection of thousands of original prints, film negatives, slides and color transparencies. These images were collected or created by New Mexico Magazine staff as well as freelancers, contractors, and the New Mexico state agencies that administered the magazine (i.e. the New Mexico Tourism Department and its predecessors). Throughout its history, the magazine sought to promote and support New Mexico inside and outside the state, with longstanding attention...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1930 - 2004
New Mexico Promotional Materials Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0030
Abstract
This collection includes promotional pamphlets and other tourist material regarding the state of New Mexico.
Dates:
1938 - 2012
New Mexico Territorial Bureau of Immigration Records,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-114
Scope and Content
Collection consists of records of the New Mexico Territorial Bureau of Immigration (1880-1911). Includes annual and biennial reports; publications; minutes of annual meetings (1907, 1911); reports from counties on climate, minerals, and agricultural and water resources; and reports from various towns giving population, geographical descriptions, transportation lines, water and fuel resources, industries, climate, schools, banks, and hotels.
Some materials are in Spanish.
Some materials are in Spanish.
Dates:
1880-1911
Overland from Las Vegas, N.M. to Ft. Stanton, N.M.
Collection
Identifier: AC 265-p
Scope and Content
Collection consists of two typed, annotated and revised drafts of a manuscript written in form of a letter. The manuscript describes a pack trip in New Mexico in 1871. The drafts list participants, goods, and livestock taken on the trip. Letter writer described the towns and roads he passed and listed the names of people he met on the trip. He described the scenery and wildlife and daily occurrences.
Dates:
1871
R. Hunter Clarkson Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-031
Scope and Content
Collection consists of one scrapbook of newspaper clippings and one folder of pamphlets and other promotional materials on Clarkson Motors and the Indian Detours program.
Dates:
1925-1953
Roland Unwin travel scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS-886-SC
Abstract
The scrapbook contains mementos from Roland Unwin’s travels across the United States, as well as materials relating to his journeys by ship between London and the U.S.
Dates:
1912 September-1913 July
Ross Calvin Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-218-BC
Abstract
This collection is comprised of papers pertaining to Ross Calvin, clergyman, author, and resident of New Mexico.
Dates:
1899-1969
Roy Rosen Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-477-BC
Scope and Content
The Roy Rosen Papers consist of journals, short stories, photographs, publications and a few personal papers. His journals are notes about experiences while traveling in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Some also concern his life in Santa Fe and his reactions to personal illness and surgery. Many of his photographs complement the travel journals. Publications containing his photographs are in this collection. Rosen's personal photograph collection is in the CSWR Pictorial...
Dates:
1910-1985
Royal A. Prentice Papers
Collection
Identifier: AC 225
Scope and Content
The collection consists of correspondence and related materials of Royal A. Prentice dating from the 1930s. These literary materials consist of Prentice's correspondence relative to his avid hobby of Southwestern archaeology; which included a very close association with the Museum of New Mexico's Laboratory of Anthropology.
Dates:
1893-1955
Ruth W. Armstrong Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-481-BC
Scope and Content
The collection consists of manuscript materials, correspondence, and publications related to Mrs. Armstrong's career as a travel writer. The published material includes poems published between l943-l947, typescripts and tearsheets of articles published from l95l-l986, travel brochures produced in her work with the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, and research and manuscript materials related to her book The Chases of Cimarron, published in l980. A...
Dates:
1943-1993
Santa Fe Transportation Company Bulletins
Collection
Identifier: AC 205
Scope and Content
These books (Part I and Part II) contain Courier Instructional bulletins issued by The Santa Fe Transportation Company from the years 1927-1930. These instructions contain a diverse amount of information ranging from Indian legends, geographical, cultural and historical to administrative duties of couriers regarding schedules, routes, fares, ect. Some of the Bulletins deal only with specific subjects while others contain a variety of subjects, but often related to a specific tour or subject...
Dates:
1927-1930
Southwest Files
Collection
Identifier: SC 9999-02
Scope and Content
The contents of this collection are from former vertical files in the reference collection and donations from Lynn I. Perrigo. Contents include items of interest primarily related to New Mexico and the Southwest.
Dates:
1887-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text
Found in:
New Mexico Highlands University
/
Southwest Files
Southwest Travel Literature Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-115-BC
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a large variety of New Mexico and Southwest travel related literature, containing promotional materials from various state, county, city, commercial and industrial groups. Brochures, maps, railroad time tables, and other miscellaneous items are represented in the collection. Much of the material is related to locations along Route 66.
This is an ongoing collection which has been and will continue to be accumulated by the Center for Southwest Research.
This is an ongoing collection which has been and will continue to be accumulated by the Center for Southwest Research.
Dates:
1881- [ongoing]
Sylvester Davis Diary Transcript
Collection
Identifier: AC 058-P
Scope and Content
One typescript of Davis's 1859 diary and a 1915 letter from donor Frank Clancy describing the diary. The diary was written on a journey from Illinois to New Mexico from April to October, 1859. Includes entries from a stay of several weeks working at mining camps in Colorado before Davis's party traveled south to New Mexico.
Dates:
1859-1915
Tours., 1936-1940
File
Identifier: 5-5-58 20
Scope and Contents
Two folders by various people on places to see in New Mexico for the book New Mexico: a guide to a colorful state.
Dates:
1936-1940
Walter Wittick Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 243
Scope and Content
Collection contains correspondence, one U. S. Geological Survey sketchbook with a few drawings by Ben Wittick, and miscellaneous transcribed correspondence.
Dates:
1886-1976
William A. Keleher Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-742-BC
Abstract
The William A. Keleher collection contains a variety of materials pertaining to the history of New Mexico. As a historian, Keleher conducted thorough research on the territorial era of the State. As a prominent lawyer and citizen of the State in the 1900's, Keleher's legal work and volunteer efforts helped shape the modern condition of New Mexico. Many of the documents related to his research, career and other interests are included in this collection.
Dates:
1714-1999; Majority of material found within 1915-1972
William Carr Lane Diary Transcript
Collection
Identifier: AC 127-P
Scope and Content
One handwritten transcript of a diary written by Lane from 1852 to 1853, and one photocopy of the transcript. The diary provides details of Lane's trip over the Santa Fe Trail from St. Louis to Santa Fe, descriptions of Santa Fe and its people, and disputes over the United States-Mexico boundary. The transcript was used by Ralph E. Twitchell in the publication of Carr's diary in 1917.
Dates:
1852-1853
William Thetford Le Viness Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 132
Scope and Content
The Le Viness Collection consists of ten scrapbooks containing chromologically arranged works written by or about W. T. Leviness; fifteen binders containing periodicals with articles written by Le Viness arranged chronologically by date of publication; and one copy of a publication written by Le Viness entitled "The Life and Works of William Hayley: 1745-1820."
Dates:
1928-1971
Wilma Loy Shelton Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-275 -BC
Abstract
The majority of the collection is comprised of itineraries for foreign visitors that Wilma Loy Shelton entertained as hostess in New Mexico for the U.S. Department of State.
Dates:
1869-1967; Majority of material found in 1954-1964
Work Projects Administration Collection,
Collection
Identifier: 1959-232
Scope and Content
Collection consists of the administrative records, research files, and miscellaneous documents of the Work Projects Administration, the Writers' Program and their predecessors in New Mexico. Administrative records (series I, 1935-1943) include correspondence, typescript drafts of proposed sections for a guidebook and various other records. Research files from the Federal Writers' Project in New Mexico (series II-XII, 1909-1971) were created and collected under the direction of State Director...
Dates:
1909-1971 (bulk 1930-1946); (1935-1943); (1930-1942); (1936-1940); (1936-1939); (1909-1939); (1936-1937); (1934-1939); (1936-1938); (1936-1971); (1935-1939); (1936-1946); (1930-1933); (1938-1942); (1938-1941)