Raton (N.M.) -- History

Scope and Content Collection includes but is not limited to genealogical data and family information, church records from Northern New Mexico, cemetery maps, and Raton, NM, history. Maps with significant personal annotations related to her research, and maps of non-New Mexico places related to Robertson’s genealogy have been left in the collection

Content Description This collection consists of 202 photographs of Raton buildings (residences, commercial buildings, churches, and civic buildings) taken by Nancy Robertson under the auspices of the Raton Bicentennial Heritage Committee of 1976. The photographs were part of the Raton Bicentennial Historic Inventory, and were intended to be compared to a then well-known photographic panorama taken in 1901 from Raton’s Goat Hill. Also included with the accession files ts is a 1976 historical report...

Abstract The Raton Grocery Store Records consist of fifteen ledgers and notebooks pertaining to the operations of a grocery and mercantile business in Raton, New Mexico, 1907-1938.

Abstract This collection is comprised of letters, clippings, and writings pertaining to author Raymond Otis.

Scope and Content Collection consists of the papers of James J. Shuler and Oscar E. Berninghaus. Series I consists primarily of Shuler's professional papers as a doctor, businessman, and Mayor in Raton, New Mexico. Much of the collection consists of letters sent by Shuler to various individuals concerning topics such as real estate, mining, irrigation, his medical practice, the New Mexico Municipal League, the Panama-California Exposition of 1915, and civic improvement projects in Raton. Some of the major...