Mildred Eckert Barrett photographs, 1890-1959.

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Mildred Eckert Barrett photographs, 1890-1959.

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This collection is a mix of photographs collected before the establishment of the Rio Grande Historical Society or the Archives and Special Collections department at New Mexico State University. The subjects vary - the oversize pictures all focus on the college or the campus grounds, but there are pictures of Dona Ana and Tortugas and White Sands. There are also stereo cards, which include a picture of the Empire State Building in New York.

0.5 linear feet.

New Mexico State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 8004450

New Mexico State University

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Rio Grande Historical Collections

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The Faithist movement was founded by a New York dentist and doctor named John B. Newbrough, who claimed to have written a new Bible, called Oahspe, while under spirit control. Contained in this Bible was "The Book of Shalam," which set forth a plan for gathering the outcast and orphaned children of the world and raising them, according to strict religious principles, to be the spiritual leaders of a new age. Newbrough and some twenty Faithists, as his followers were called, decided to create suc...

Barrett, Mildred E

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This collection consists of gathered photographs that a former Reference and Circulation librarian, Mildred Eckert Barrett, kept before the Rio Grande Historical Society was established. Barrett was also a teacher in library science. She received her degree from Western Reserve University in library science in 1942 and 1945 and joined what was to become New Mexico State University in 1945. Nothing further is known about her. From the description of Mildred Eckert Barrett photographs,...

New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.

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