Papers, 1700-1964, (bulk 1945-1963).

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Papers, 1700-1964, (bulk 1945-1963).

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The bulk of the William Jackson Parish collection is made up of research material for Parish's Harvard dissertation and 1961 Harvard University Press publication, The Charles Ilfeld Company: A Study of the Rise and Decline of Mercantile Capitalism in New Mexico. This material consists of correspondence, notes, manuscripts, business reports, an editor's copy of The Charles Ilfeld Company ..., as well as the bound dissertation. Also included is correspondence with Harvard University concerning Parish's graduate work (D.C.S.), 1945-1950, and research concerning the history of the First National Bank of Santa Fe. Included in the First National Bank of Santa Fe material is correspondence, research notes, loan records, ledgers, letter books, statements, and minutes. The collection also includes administrative correspondence between Parish and various businessmen concerning donations and transfer of company records to the University of New Mexico Library Special Collections, now known as the Center for Southwest Research.

4 boxes (3.25 cu. ft.)

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Parish, William Jackson, 1907-1965.

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William Parish, teacher, writer, lecturer, historian, economist, and civic worker was best known as a scholar and gentleman. His legacy is memorialized at the University of New Mexico's William J. Parish Memorial Business and Economics Library. William Jackson Parish was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania in 1907. He received degrees from Brown University and Harvard. He joined the faculty of the University of New Mexico in 1943, serving in succession as assistant professor and associate professor o...

First National Bank of Santa Fe

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The Second National Bank was chartered on July 17, 1872 and closed its doors on July 17, 1892 having voluntarily permitted its twenty year charter to expire without renewal. The Second National Bank was the second oldest banking establishment in the Territory of New Mexico. Its organizers and major stockholders were Solomon, Jacob, Levi, Lehman, and Willi Spiegelberg, owners of a successful mercantile and wholesale business. With the closing of Second National, Willi, the last of the Spiegelberg...

Charles Ilfeld Company

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Charles Ilfeld, born in Homburg, Germany in 1847, arrived in Santa Fe, N.M. in 1865. After working as a clerk for the mercantile business of Elsberg and Amberg he relocated to Taos to work for Adolph Letcher. In 1867 the Adolph Letcher and Company moved to Las Vegas, N.M., where Charles became a partner in the firm. Seven years later, Letcher sold his interest to Ilfeld, who changed the name of the business to Charles Ilfeld Company. Ilfeld's business eventually grew into the largest mercantile ...

Ilfeld, Charles, 1847-

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Ilfeld family.

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University of New Mexico. Library. Special Collections Dept.

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