Mesilla Valley
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
“Early Days in the Settlement” (4 pages). Collector – Frances E. Totty. Informant – J. C. Brock, 1936-1940
File
Identifier: 6-97-18
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
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
Maude McFie Bloom manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: Ms-0552
Abstract
The bulk of the material is writing of Maude McFie Bloom, mother of John P. Bloom, wife of New Mexico historian Lansing Bloom, and daughter John McFie, on of the founders of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Maude McFie Bloom graduated from the college in 1903. Her senior thesis, History of the Mesilla Valley, is a standard source of information for 19th century Mesilla Valley history. McFie Bloom knew and interviewed many of the important residents of the valley for her...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1903 - 1945