Isabel L. Eckles Collection, 1898-1966

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Randolph, Lois

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New Mexico. Superintendent of Public Instruction

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Lusitania (Steamship)

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The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland; 1,198 passengers and crew died. The Cunard Line launched Lusitania in 1906. When RMS Lusitania left New York for Britain on May 1, 1915, German submarine warfare was intensifying in the Atlantic. On the afternoon of May 7, a German U-boat torpedoed Lusitania inside the declared war zone. A second, unexplained, internal explosion, probably that of munitions she was carrying, ...

Hagerman, Herbert J. (Herbert James), 1871-1935

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Hagerman was an Indian Commissioner for the U.S. Government who worked primarily with issues concerning Indians of the Southwest. He also served as Governor of New Mexico from 1906 to 1907. From the description of Herbert J. Hagerman papers, 1924-1932. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37848686 From the guide to the Herbert J. Hagerman Papers, 1924-1932, (New Mexico State Records Center and Archives) ...

United States. Work Projects Administration

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The Works Progress Administration was involved in various projects including the compilation of sources on American territories. The card catalogs for these were prepared at the Library of Congress and are now in the National Archives. From the description of Classified Alaska Bibliography, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42927718 Works Progress Administration (later called Work Projects Administration) began operations in San Joaquin County, Calif., July 1935. County a...

Museum of New Mexico.

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The Museum of New Mexico and its Board of Regents were established by a legislative act in 1909 (1909 Laws of N.M., Chp. 4, Sec. 1- 9). During the early years the director served both the Museum of New Mexico and the School of American Archaeology, later the School of American Research. Under the Cultural Properties Act of 1969, the Museum became responsible for administering all registered cultural properties belonging to the State of New Mexico (1969 Laws of N.M., Chp. 223, Sec. 6). In 1977 a ...

Williams, Addison

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Eckles, Isabel L., 1877-1971.

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Isabel L. Eckles was born in New Castle, Delaware in 1877. She relocated to New Mexico and served as: a teacher in the Silver City Public Schools; Superintendent of the Grant County Public schools; State Superintendent of Public Instruction for two terms; and as Superintendent of the Santa Fe Public schools. After retirement from the education profession, Eckles served as State Director for the Division of Service Projects for the Works Progress Administration, later the Work Projects Administra...

Mechem, Edwin L., 1912-

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Edwin Leard Mechem was born to Edwin Mechem and Eunice Leard Mechem on 2 July 1912 in Alamogordo, New Mexico. He was educated at New Mexico State University and the University of Arkansas Law School. He practiced law in Las Cruces; was an FBI agent during WWII; was elected to the state legislature in 1946; and served four terms as governor of New Mexico (1951-54; 1957-58; 1961-62). In 1962 he was appointed to the U.S. Senate filling Dennis Chávez's seat upon his death but lost re-election in 196...