Folklore -- New Mexico
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Amado Chaves Papers,
Collection
Identifier: 1963-001
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, personal papers, manuscripts, genealogies, and clippings. Subjects include New Mexican customs and folklore, land grants and titles, and prominent figures in New Mexico history. Other topics include Chaves and Ortiz family histories, the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, and New Mexicos school system. Notable correspondents are Charles F. Lummis, B.W. "Win Page, Katharine Chaves Page, and Stephen B. Elkins. This collection was transferred from the Museum of New Mexico...
Dates:
1698-1931
Baughman Folklore Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-317-BC
Scope and Content
The Ernest Warren Baughman collection contains six boxes of folktales (boxes 1-5 and 12) and six boxes of index cards recording folk cures, proverbs, rhymes and games, riddles, superstitions, customs, jokes, and weather lore (boxes 6-11), all collected by his students, mostly at the University of New Mexico. Many of the stories were collected from New Mexican villages and towns, containing local content. The collection is arranged alphabetically by the name of the collector. Most of the index...
Dates:
1948-1981
Edwin Berry Oral History Interviews and Songs
Collection
Identifier: MU-20
Scope and Content
This collection consists of 30 CDs each containing one hour of oral interviews and/or renditions by Edwin Berry (Baca), a pioneer resident of Tomé, New Mexico. These interviews were conducted by Dr. Rowena Rivera, a former professor of Spanish at the University of New Mexico. In 1979, Dr. Rivera interviewed Edwin Berry, who was at the time 66 years old. Mr. Berry gave an account of life in the Tomé area in the early part of the 20th century. In addition to the oral history, the recordings...
Dates:
1979-2000 (bulk 1979-1982)
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-603-BC
Scope and Content
This collection is divided into three series: Genealogy, Folklore and History, and Personal. The genealogy series contains notes, narratives, charts, last wills and testaments, correspondence, and other documents pertaining to the Baca and Delgado families and their relations. The Folklore and History series primarily contains narratives and notes, written by Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert. Her writings combine historical research with local folklore and tradition in topics relating...
Dates:
1602-1996
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library's WPA New Mexico Collection
Collection
Identifier: NMU CSWR WPA
Abstract
Most of the New Mexico WPA stories were collected among Hispanic and Anglo Americans across the state. They contain folk tales, songs, customs, town histories and biographies of pioneer leaders. Some stories relate to Native American topics; a few materials pertain to African Americans and Chinese immigrants.
Dates:
1936-1940
Helen Zunser Wortis Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-549-SC
Scope and Content
This collection contains the unpublished manuscript, Uncle José and the Animals, a children's story written by Helen Zunser and illustrated by Shomer Zunser. This story is a compilation of New Mexican folk tales and riddles. It is hand typed and contains original illustrations. The collection also contains a photocopy of Helen Zunser's published story,The Witch (1935), and 1 photograph of the author.
Dates:
1935-[1976]
Mary Haughton Harroun Collection of New Mexico Folktales
Collection
Identifier: AC 102-P
Scope and Content
Collection consists of the private papers of Mary Houghton Harroun, 1892-1916. Included are: typescript translations of New Mexico folktales; some correspondence; some clippings; and a publication of Spanish customs and folklore.
Dates:
1892-1916
New Mexico State Folklorist Claude Stephenson photographs, 1980-2013
Unprocessed
Identifier: HP.2014.01-NMHM.2014.002
Dates:
ca. 1980-2013
Thomas J. Steele Alabado Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-878-BC
Abstract
This collection contains research notes, photocopies of alabados (religious ballads) and other liturgical and cultural literature collected by Father Thomas Steele. Most of the material in this collection was used as a basis for his book The Alabados of New Mexico.
Dates:
1780-2003
William S. and Philip E. Harroun Papers
Collection
Identifier: AC 104
Scope and Content
Collection consists of appointment books and other legal and financial papers relating to stocks, real estate, inheritances, loans and mortgages.
Dates:
1882-1922
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)
WPA New Mexico Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 228
Scope and Content
Collection consists of typed documents produced by employees of the W.P.A. and its subdivision the Federal Writer's Project in New Mexico. Most of the collection is made up of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted with New Mexicans, and folklore and stories about New Mexico and Hispanic culture in particular.
Dates:
1936-1940