Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District audio-visual materials, 1930s-1940s and 1980.

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Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District audio-visual materials, 1930s-1940s and 1980.

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The pictures in this collection primarily show the building of canals and ditches, but also the Rio Grande, crop damage, a town street (likely to be Albuquerque), and a train yard. There are 68 negatives and contact prints of each image was made in black and white. There is also a 30 minute video tape which details the Rio Grande.

5 linear in.

New Mexico State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 8004464

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...

Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (N.M.)

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The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District was established in 1925 as a political subdivision of the state under the Conservancy Act of 1923. Its purpose is to provide and maintain river control and flood protection, improve drainage of seeped areas, furnish water storage, apply supplemental water for irrigation needs, and construct and maintain distribution facilities for irrigation waters. The geographic area served is from Cochiti in the north to San Marcial in the south and includes portions...