New Mexico Historical Review records, 1926-1974.

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New Mexico Historical Review records, 1926-1974.

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The New Mexico Historical Review collection, housed in 9 boxes, represents the day to day workings of a scholarly journal. The collection includes substantial correspondence of the first four editors of the Review, Lasing B. Bloom, Paul A.F. Walter, Frank Driver Reeve, and Eleanor B. Adams, as well as many well known men and women who held an interest in the history of the Southwest, the Historical Society of New Mexico, and the Review. Some of the names included in the collection are Mary Austin, Edger Lee Hewett, L. Bradford Prince, Tibo Chavez, Erna Fergusson, Hester Jones, France Scholes, Walter Prescott Webb, and James Zimmerman to name but a few. Also included in the collection are manuscripts, a comprehensive index to volumes 1-15 (1926-1940) of the New Mexico Historical Review, and biographical surveys. The correspondence and working papers of the Review are in alphabetical order with boxes 1-5 (1926-1964) containing the original collection. Boxes 6-9 comprise an addition to the collection, also arranged alphabetically, spanning the dates 1960-1974.

9 boxes (9 cu. ft.)

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Historical Society of New Mexico

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The Historical Society of New Mexico was created in 1859. From the description of Historical Society of New Mexico collection, 1859-1982. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37397078 Founded on December 26, 1859, the Historical Society of New Mexico is the oldest historical society west of the Mississippi River. During the Civil War, it suspended activities, but soon resumed its role in preserving New Mexico's history. During the territorial period (1851-1912...

Reeve, Frank Driver, 1899-

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Frank Driver Reeve was born in Ogden, Utah, on June 7, 1899. He received degrees from the University of New Mexico and the University of Texas. Dr. Reeve made significant contributions to the study of the history of New Mexico and the Southwest. He was the editor of the New Mexico Historical Review, in which much of his research appeared. He is best known for his scholarly research regarding the history of the Navajo from colonial times through the nineteenth-century, and his three volume Histor...

Adams, Eleanor B.

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Eleanor Burnham Adams (1910-1996) was a historian, author, and editor. Born in Cambridge Massachusetts, May 14, 1910, she earned a degree from Radcliffe College in romance languages, graduating cum laude in 1931. She later studied history at the University of Madrid and Centro de Estudios HistoĢricos. She began her career as a historian in 1934, working with France V. Scholes in what became a lifelong collaboration. Her skills as a paleographer became so advanced that Scholes is known to have sa...

Bloom, Lansing Bartlett, 1880-

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Lansing B. Bloom, a Presbyterian minister, came to New Mexico in 1912 and worked at several missions, before accepting a staff position with the Museum of New Mexico and School of American Research in Santa Fe, in 1917. In 1924, Bloom became a fellow of the Historical Society of New Mexico, where he held the position of secretary until his death in 1946. He served as editor of the New Mexico Historical Review (NMHR), from its inception in 1926 until 1946, dates which coincide with his teaching d...

Walter, Paul A. F.

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Walter was a prominent New Mexican who served as Secretary of the School of American Archaeology and later the School of American Research, Associate Director of the Museum of New Mexico, and President of the Historical Society of New Mexico. From the description of Paul A. F. Walter papers, 1913-1941. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37435013 Paul A.F. Walter came to Santa Fe in 1899 at which time he started as a reporter for the local newspa...