GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
New Mexico: NM-29

New Mexico State University. Branson Library. Archives and Special Collections
Williams Avenue and Frenger Mall
P.O. Box 30006
Las Cruces, NM 88003

Phone: 505-646-4727
Alternative website: Rocky Mountain Online Archive

 

Hours: See website

Access: Some restrictions apply

Copying facilities: Yes 

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1729-2003   

Volume: Less than 1 cubic foot  

Description: 9 collections include Native Catholic records. 

 

/1 鈥淎mador Family Papers, Ms 4鈥

Inclusive dates: 1836-1949

Volume: Ca. 11 photographs

Description: Papers of Martin and Rrefugio Ruiz de Amador and their children; include photographs of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission, Juarez, Mexico, San Gabriel Arc谩ngel Mission, San Gabriel, California, Santa Barbara Mission, Santa Barbara, California, and the St. Junipero Serra Monument, Monterey, California.  

 

/2 鈥淓lizabeth Barrett Photograph Collection, Ms 222鈥

Inclusive dates: 1924, undated

Volume: At least 11 photographs

Description: An unprocessed collection; Matachine dancers at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church (Tortugas), Mesilla Park, New Mexico.  

 

/3 鈥淔abian Garcia Papers, Ms 71鈥

Inclusive dates: Between 1890-1940

Volume: Few photographs

Description: San Gabriel Arc谩ngel Mission, San Gabriel, California. 

 

/4 鈥淗agerman Family Papers, Ms 104鈥

Inclusive dates: Between 1848-1937

Volume: At least 9 photographs

Description: A partially processed collection; San Jos茅 y San Miguel Mission, San Antonio, Texas and San Xavier del Bac Mission, Tucson, Arizona.  

 

/5 鈥淟os Archivos Hist贸ricos del Arzobishpado de Durango, M茅xico, Ms 355鈥

Inclusive dates: 1729-1860

Volume: Approximately 1% within 730 reels of microfilm

Description: Records (copies) from the Archdiocese of Durango and State of Durango (Archivo General de Notar铆as de Durango); includes Franciscan and Jesuit Native American missions and parishes in New Mexico and El Paso, Texas; in Spanish.  

 

/6 鈥淐arl Schuchard Lithographs, Ms 0339鈥

Inclusive dates: 1854

Volume: 2 photographs

Description: San Jos茅 de Tumac谩cori Mission, Tumacacori, Arizona; from drawings by Schuchard made during the A.B. Gray Survey for a southern transcontinental railroad.  

 

/7 鈥淭homas K. Todsen Photographs, Ms 0223鈥

Inclusive dates: Unknown

Volume: Ca. 5 postcards

Description: St. Joseph Mission, Mescalero, New Mexico, San Geronimo Mission, Taos, New Mexico, and San Augustine Church, Isleta, New Mexico. 

 

/8 鈥淜eith Wilson Papers, Ms 0451鈥

Inclusive dates: Between 1957-2003

Volume: 6 folders

Description: A New Mexico author, poet and professor; includes the manuscript, 鈥淢issions and Pueblos of the Old Southwest鈥 with related photographic prints and negatives of the following 20 mission churches:

A. New Mexico

1. San Jos茅 de Laguna Church, Laguna

2. San Agustin Church, Isleta

3. Nuestra Se帽ora de Guadalupe Mission, Pojoaque

4. San Felipe Mission, San Felipe

5. Santa Ana Mission, Santa Ana

6. San Felipe Neri Church, Albuquerque

7. Santa Clara de As铆s Mission, Santa Clara

8. San Diego de Jemez Church, Jemez

9. San Geronimo Mission, Taos

10. San Ildelfonso Mission, San Ildelfonso

11. San Gregario de Ab贸 Mission, Ab贸

12. Nuestra Se帽ora de los 脕ngeles de Porciuncula de los Pecos Mission, Pecos

13. Santo Domingo Mission, Santo Domingo Pueblo

14. Nuestra Se帽ora de Guadalupe de Halona Mission, Zuni

15. San Buenaventure Church, Cochiti

16. San Diego Mission, Tesuque

B. Arizona

1. San Jos茅 de Tumac谩cori Mission, Tumacacori

2. San Xavier del Bac Church, Tucson

3. San Bernardino de Awatobi Mission, Awatobi, Hopi Reservation

4. Los Santos 脕ngeles de Guevavi, Guevavi

 

/9 鈥淐alla Eyler and Ulysses G. Wolfe Papers, Ms 215鈥 

Inclusive dates: Between 1909-1916, 1946 

Volume: Few photographs within 2 albums    

Description: Includes the Organ Mountain camp of Colonel Eugene Van Patten (Tortugas), between 1909-1916, and San Jos茅 y San Miguel Mission, San Antonio, Texas, between 1913-1915, 1946.  

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the 向日葵视频 Archives.

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