Carrizozo (N.M.) -- History

Abstract Research material of the southeastern New Mexico community of White Oaks. The collection contains details of the history of more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its boom. Included is correspondence with descendants who shared documents and photographs for Haldane’s book, including two CDs containing images. The collection holds original photographs, as well as photocopied images. Written histories of families and individuals. The collection also holds the...

Scope and Content Two cards printed by Rolland's Drug Store in Carrizozo, New Mexico to advertise Wampole's Creo-Terrin compound for Coughs and Colds. Wampole’s Creo-Terpin was produced from about the turn of the (20th) century until at least the 1940s; there are World War II-era cards featuring guides to military decorations. The “Creo” in Creo-Terpin seems to come from wood creosote, a bush that we know today has even more medicinal value than Wampole thought; it’s good for upset stomach, arthritis, anemia,...