Scope and Content

Mauro Montoya Collection documents significant episodes of New Mexico history during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The documents are divided into the four main periods: Spanish period, The Mexican period, U.S. Territorial period (incl. U.S. military occupation), New Mexico Statehood period.

Abstract

Collection consists of black & white photographs by Miguel Gandert. Photographic series include the 1988 Amador Flores occupation in Tierra Amarilla, NM, with portraits of Reies Lopez Tijerina, Pedro Archuleta, and Rafael Flores; an NEH grant-funded series on the traditional farming communities near San Luis, Colorado and Taylor Ranch protest (1996-97); the Varrio [Barrio] San Jose project in Albuquerque, NM (1982-86).

Content Description From the Collection:

Twenty photographs on card mounts of Las Cruces, 1899-1900, possibly taken by Charles Fulton Neale and/or Katharine Meadows Neale, his wife. The photographs depict scenes and people around Las Cruces, New Mexico. The backs of the photographs contain descriptive information handwritten in pencil, presumably by the Neales.

Content Description From the Collection:

Twenty photographs on card mounts of Las Cruces, 1899-1900, possibly taken by Charles Fulton Neale and/or Katharine Meadows Neale, his wife. The photographs depict scenes and people around Las Cruces, New Mexico. The backs of the photographs contain descriptive information handwritten in pencil, presumably by the Neales.

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...