Peter Van Dresser papers, ca. 1950-1961.

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Peter Van Dresser papers, ca. 1950-1961.

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Summary: Collection consists primarily of the papers created and collected by Peter Van Dresser as an advocate of solar energy, the Decentralist Movement and various other issues. Included are papers from the New Mexico State Planning Office (1960-1961); papers from the Penjerdel Region Transportation Study (Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware Metropolitian Project, Inc., 1960-1963), Van Dresser's correspondence (1930-1983), and his manuscripts and publications. He also collected papers that pertained to home crafts and other aspects of economic self reliance, New Mexico land use and planning, the Uplands Project, and the El Rito New Mexico projects. Also included are the personal papers of Peter and Florence Van Dresser which contain property records, family correspondence, and photographs of California places taken by James B. DeKorne and photographs of New Mexico places taken by the New Mexico State Tourist Bureau.

Papers : 14.5 linear feet.Photographs : 21.Negatives : 2.

New Mexico State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7398132

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El Rito Watershed Development Association.

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New Mexico. State Planning Office

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The State Planning Office was established within the Department of Finance and Administration in 1959 (1959 NM Laws, Chp. 255, Sec. 1). In 1977 the Office was abolished and its duties were transferred to the newly created State Planning Division of the Department of Finance and Administration (1977 NM Laws, Chp. 247, Sec. 22). From the description of New Mexico State Planning Office photograph collection [graphic]. 1965-1976. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38000520 ...

Van Dresser, Florence.

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Van Dresser, Peter

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Peter Van Dresser was an environmentalist and solar energy advocate. He initiated the solar project at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico and was one of the founders of the New Mexico Solar Energy Association. He worked with the New Mexico State Planning Office on a rural rehabiliation project and was an advocate for the Decentralist Movement, a back to the land movement of the 1940s and 1950s. From the description of Peter Van Dresser papers, ca. 1950-1961. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat ...

New Mexico. State Tourist Bureau

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Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres (U.S.)

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DeKorne, James B., 1936-

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American friends service committee

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Quaker organization formed to promote peace and reconciliation through its social service and relief programs. From the description of American Friends Service Committee records, 1933-1988 (bulk 1933-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983753 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was organized in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A ...

Penjerdel Corporation

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Knowlton, Clark S.

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Knowlton was a professor at the University of Utah and a researcher of Spanish Americans and the Southwest. From the description of Clark S. Knowlton papers, 1961-1979 (bulk, 1954-1977). (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37896310 Clark S. Knowlton (1919-1991) was a professor of sociology, with a research interest in the Indians of the American Southwest. From the description of Clark S. Knowlton family photographs, circa 1880s-1953. (Brigham Young Un...

Tijerina, Reies

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José Angel Gutierrez, Reies Lopez Tijerina, Rudolfo "Corky" Gonzales (L-R) In El Paso, Texas at the first National Convention of La Raza Unida Party, 1972. Part of Part of Reies Tijerina Pictorial Collection, PICT 000-654-0001-0149 (Box 1, Folder 2). Chicano land grant activist Reies Lopez Tijerina was born September 21, 1926 in Poth, Texas, to migrant workers Antonio and Erlinda Lopez Tijerina. Tijerina enrolled in the Latin American Bible School in Saspamco, Texas in 1...

School of Living (Pa.)

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