Archaeology -- New Mexico
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Alice C. Fletcher Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 087
Scope and Content
This collection consists of records from the School of American Archaeology in Santa Fe. Includes minutes, announcements, pamphlets, clippings, reports, official correspondence, and financial documents. Much of the correspondence involves officials at the School of American Archaeology and its parent institution the Archaeological Institute of America, including Edgar Hewett, Charles Lummis, Francis Kelsey, and Charles Bowditch, as well as scholars such as Jesse Fewkes.
Dates:
1904-1911
Wesley Bradfield Photographs
Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0046
Scope and Content
This small yet historically significant collection covers a range of Bradfield's photography over his career. While not comprehensive it does touch on many of his areas research and interest. As this collection was disbursed through the subjects files, retrieval of additional Bradfield material will occur over time.
Dates:
1910 - 1929
William Henry Brown and George C. Bennett Photographs
Collection
Identifier: PAAC-0030
Scope and Contents
This small but significant collection consists of portraits in various card mounted formats and sizes, as well as photographs of New Mexico places and scenes, including an important run of stereoviews.Between 1881 and 1883, the studio produced a large amount of work for the newly reorganized New Mexico Historical Society, including portraits (some original, some copy images) of New Mexico Territorial notables. These portraits became an early nucleus of the present day Museum of New...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1878 to 1884; 1845 - 1884
Edgar L. Hewett Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 105
Scope and Content
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of archaeologist and educator Edgar Lee Hewett (1865-1946). The collection includes materials from 1861-1992, with the bulk of the materials from 1897-1947. The types of materials include correspondence, manuscripts by Hewett and others, publications, archaeological notes and reports, financial records, personal documents, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, account books and ledgers, visitor registers, maps, and other miscellaneous...
Dates:
1861 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1897 - 1947
Edward E. Crocker Records from the Excavation and Restoration of the Santuario de Guadalupe, Santa Fe, N.M.
Collection
Identifier: MSS-709-BC
Abstract
This collection is a well documented history of the excavation and restoration of the Santuario de Guadalupe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It documents the archaeology conducted by Edward Crocker and his firm when burials were discovered beneath the floor of the church during restoration work. Resulting social and cultural dynamics of the community relating to the church, its renovation and the archaeology are also covered in the collection.
Dates:
1976-1999 (bulk 1989-1990)
Florence Hawley Ellis Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 453
Scope and Content
The collection consists of assorted personal and professional papers. In addition to private and professional correspondence, the collection contains many academic papers written by Ellis' students and other scholars in the field.
Dates:
1928-1979
Helen Blumenschein Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 376
Scope and Content
There is material from her war service, correspondence, drawings, and publications. Her historical writings about Taos valley and other areas in New Mexico are included. Research manuscripts on archaeology and history are in the collection. In addition, there are materials from many of the organizations that interested Blumenschein, such as the Wilderness Society. There is also banking and tax material.
Dates:
1910-1989
Jack P. Mills Memoirs
Collection
Identifier: AC 316-p
Scope and Content
Collection consists of a photocopy of a typed manuscript titled "Memoirs of Jack P. Mills;" a family tree and references. Included are newspaper clippings on Jack P. Mills and a promotional piece on Clayton, New Mexico.
Dates:
1892-1994
Malcolm Farmer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-920-BC
Abstract
Papers relate to Navajo research: ethnobotany, bear ceremonialism, pottery, rock art, as well as California archaeology, anthropology, museum issues, and other general topics. Includes field notes, manuscripts, letters, maps, photographs.
Dates:
1935-2001
Museum of New Mexico Collection
Collection
Identifier: AC 155
Scope and Content
Collection consists of a broad range of materials relating to the activities of the Museum of New Mexico in the 20th century with the bulk of the material being from the latter half. Included are plans, reports, finances, projects and correspondence involving the Museum of New Mexico, the School of American Research, National Park Service, and other state and national organizations. Among the many topics are the Florentine Codex, Navajo Reservoir Excavation Project, 75th Anniversary...
Dates:
1869-1994; Majority of material found in 1950s-1994; 1869-2008
Navajo Nation Chaco Protection Sites Program Records
Collection
Identifier: Coll 0024
Scope and Contents
__This collection contains records documenting, preserving and interpreting Chaco Protection Sites Program sites on Navajo Nation land and a few corresponding sites, e.g. Chaco Culture NHP sites. The collection consists of eight series and thirty subseries covering the establishment of the program; it's administration and management; documentation of CPSP sites and various precolombian landscape projects with images, maps, and drawings; as well as publications, papers, and presentations by...
Dates:
1980-2009 (Bulk 1993-2009)
Royal A. Prentice Papers
Collection
Identifier: AC 225
Scope and Content
The collection consists of correspondence and related materials of Royal A. Prentice dating from the 1930s. These literary materials consist of Prentice's correspondence relative to his avid hobby of Southwestern archaeology; which included a very close association with the Museum of New Mexico's Laboratory of Anthropology.
Dates:
1893-1955
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)