Arizona--Description and travel

Scope and Content The collection consists primarily of manuscripts of articles, most of them unpublished and undated. There are 13 folders divided by subject area, including articles on Arizona and New Mexico, photography, railroads, motorcycling, and various mechanical inventions and problem solving. Stowell describes his motorcycle and photography trips through the Southwest, as well as points of interest such as the inscribed mystery stone near Los Lunas, New Mexico, and various petroglyph sites. Some of his...

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...

Scope and Content Collection consists of a journal kept by Gullette during a trip exploring and photographing Indian ruins in New Mexico and Arizona; a descriptive list of photographs taken on the trip; and a notebook filled with descriptions of Colorado by Gullette. Collection also includes a typescript of Gullette's journal, which details stops at Chaco Canyon, the Grand Canyon, Enchanted Mesa, and Acoma Pueblo.

Scope and Content One portfolio contains several small watercolor paintings depicting scenes in Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. On two pages, business cards are pasted in of (Eastern and Midwestern) writers, journalists, military offices from the Civil War.

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.

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...

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.

Scope and Content Collection contains correspondence, one U. S. Geological Survey sketchbook with a few drawings by Ben Wittick, and miscellaneous transcribed correspondence.