Helen Caffey papers, 1865-1952.

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Helen Caffey papers, 1865-1952.

This collection primarily contains postcards sent from California to New Mexico, mostly depicting locations in California, but some also include images from New Mexico and Juarez, Mexico. Recipients receiving the postcards included Maria A. Deguerre, Maria Paulina Garcia, J.S. Garcia and Pauline Adair. The postcards are written in Spanish and English and some remained blank. Images 0023-0032 and 0074-0081 are photographs. Copy negatives were made for a small number of postcards. Also included are some papers from Thomas Branigan and some items relating to New Mexico.

7 linear in.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8004454

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...

Caffey, Helen, 1906-1992.

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Helen Pauline Caffey was born December 4, 1906 to Helen Winn Mead of Decatur, Georgia and Lochlin W. Caffey of Lowndes County, Alabama at Camp Keithley, Mindanao, Philippines where her father was serving in the U.S. Army. Caffey received two Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Colorado in 1928, and in 1930 she earned a degree in Bachelor of Arts degree in Library Science from Emory University in Atlanta. She then worked as an assistant librarian at Carnegie Library in Atlanta where s...

Branigan, Thomas.

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