Children in their Sunday clothes pose in front of adobe church, Alamo National Forest, N. Mex. Terr. [now Lincoln National Forest]. By A. M. Neal, May 13, 1908. 95-G-75383 from Photographs of the American West at the online exhibit hall of the National Archives.

• Resources at the Santa Fe Public Library
  
• Other Library Resources in Santa Fe
  
• Online Photographic Resources
  
• Maps
  
• Museums & Organizations
  
• Reading Matter - online full-text resources
  
• History Topics
  
• Genealogy Links
  

• The Santa Fe New Mexican, 1870--current year. Available on microfilm. There is not an index. Clippings in our Vertical Files help locate articles on topics of public interest. The Fray Angelico Chavez History Library and Photographic Archive maintains an obituary file.
• Telephone books, from 1943 to present year, with some gaps. Plus a reproduction of the 1916 phone book.
• City Directories, from 1934 to present year, with some gaps.
• New Mexico Blue Book, from 1905 to present year, with some gaps.
• The "Vertical File" - we have extensive clipping files and information files on Santa Fe and New Mexico topics--artists, places, events, etc. Ask at the Reference Desk.
• Microfiche of City Council Minutes, 12-19-36/12-13-39 (why are they there? where is the rest? nobody knows)
• ONLY the following Census microfilm rolls.
  for Santa Ana, Santa Fe, Taos, Mora, the NM Census for 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1990, 1910, and the Territorial Census of 1885.
  For addition census information, contact the New Mexico State Library
• New Mexico Historical Review, from 1926 to current year. Indexes on the Index Table.
• New Mexico Magazine, from 1931 to present year. Indexes on the Index Table.
• El Palacio, from 1919 to current year, with some gaps.
• Genealogical Resources in New Mexico, by Robert E. Esterly, Ph.D. A pamphlet from the New Mexico Genealogical Society, available at the reference desk-- your basic guide to what there is, and in which library or archive.
• Don't overlook the books in the Southwest Room. Here are some examples. (Try these and other searches in the library catalog):
  
  • We have books by many fine historians working in New Mexico. Try author searches for: Fray Angelico Chavez -||- Thomas E. Chavez -||- John L. Kessell -||- Marc Simmons -||- Marta Weigle
  • title search: New Mexico, A County Guide Series -- entries for v. I. Santa Fe county -- v. II. Bernalillo county -- v. III. DonaAna county -- v. IV. San Juan county -- v. V. Lea county -- v. VI. Taos county.
  • subject search: New Mexico Genealogy
    subject search: Santa Fe Trail (sorted with the most recent books on top...)
    subject search: subject search: New Mexico Frontier and Pioneer Life
    subject search: Land Grants--New Mexico
    subject search: New Mexico--History--Civil War
    subject search: Taos--History -||- Las Vegas -||- Albuquerque--History
  • The Southwest Reference Collection
    
  • Selected books about the Santa Fe Trail
    

Resources at Other Libraries

• The Southwest Room at the New Mexico State Library
  1209 Camino Carlos Rey, 476-9790. Hours: 9-5 Mon-Fri. New Mexico State Library Catalog.

• Fray Angélico Chávez History Library and Photographic Archives
  120 Washington Ave., 476-5090. Hours 1-5pm M-F. Email: histlib@mnm.state.nm.us. New Mexico original documents, contemporary manuscript collections 1680, rare books, maps, newspapers; WPA records; vertical files on Santa Fe, New Mexico Towns, & New Mexico (list of file topics available online), heraldry information (some images online), current obituary file, and selected indexes.

• New Mexico State Records and Archives
  1205 Camino Carlos Rey, 476-7908. Hours: 8-5 M-F. Primary material only, 1621 - present.

• Online Archive of New Mexico - search the archive holdings of the Center for Southwest Research, the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, and the Rio Grande Historical Collection

• Rio Grande Valley Library System Special Collections Branch - Albuquerque. Featuring materials on genealogy and New Mexico history and culture.

• Center for Southwest Reasearch - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Leo Crane, La Bajada Hill (approx. 1920) from the Image Database at the Cline Library, Northern Arizona University

Online Photographic Resources

• Photography Collection, Denver Public Library -- a couple of examples: Church in Isleta, and Palace of the Governors, 1900
• Library of Congress' American Memory Collection is a great place to mine for photos. Search for Santa Fe in the Historic American Buildings Survey, search for Dorothea Lange's New Mexico photos in America from the Great Depression to WWII, search for any place name across all the photo collections. Wow.
• A gallery of historical images from the Museum of New Mexico Archives (New Mexico Magazine)
• Lisa Law's New Buffalo, 1967, from the Virtual Exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
• Albuquerque Museum Photo Archive
• Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad - photo pages by Mark Evans
• Gallery of Southwestern Lands : Chaco Canyon

• 1895 Map of New Mexico (really big file)
• Map of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, 1766-1768 from Spain, the United States, & the American Frontier
• from the Library of Congress' Map Collections:
  • Colton's 1873 map, Arizona and New Mexico,
  • Mitchell's 1867 map, Arizona and New Mexico
  • Map of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad and connections (1873)
• from the Library of Congress' Taking the Long View : Panoramic Photographs :
  • Panoramic Photograph of Santa Fe, 1915
  • Panoramic Photograph of Albuquerque, 1915
• Bird's eye view of the city of Santa Fé, N.M. 1882.--from the Library of Congress's Panoramic Maps Collection. (They also have Las Vegas, NM.)

• Museum of New Mexico
• Palace of the Governors (Museum of New Mexico)
• Southwest Reserch Center of Northern New Mexico (Taos)
• Museum collections in New Mexico by historical timeline -- a nifty approach to NM museum collections
• Other Organizations
  • New Mexico Office of the State Historian
  • La Herencia del Norte index
  • Historic Santa Fe Foundation
  • New Mexico Jewish Historical Society
  • Historical Society of New Mexico

• Carl Maag & Steve Rohrer, Project Trinity 1945-46 - same, html version
• Robert J. Torrez, A Cuarto Centennial History of New Mexico
• J. Frank Dobie, Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, from Southwestern Classics Online
• The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca translated by Fanny Bandelier (1905), and other full-text documents from PBS' New Perspectives on The West (with other documents and images)
• Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain from Literature@sunsite
• Geronimo, His own story
• Online Research Papers about the Anasazi and Chaco, by John Kantner, Dennis Doxtater, and others
• From the rio to the sierra: An environmental history of the Middle Rio Grande Basin
• Shawn L. Penman: Modern Technology Breathes Life into Dusty Archaeological Maps - presentation on Pecos Pueblo
• Jane Sanchez: 17th Century Spanish-Indian Relations: Causes of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
• Jane Sanchez: Law of the Land Grant
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Definition and List of Community Land Grants in New Mexico (.pdf file from the GAO)
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (text of treaty)
• Southwestern Wonderland: University of Arizona Special Collections Pamphlet and Travel Brochures
• Miguel Encinias, Cuarto Centennial History Series, a series of history articles from the Albuquerque Journal
• Marc Simmons: Camino Real essay at Museum of New Mexico history site
• Marc Simmons: Articles at Santa Fe Online
• History and Nostalgia Essays at SouthernNewMexico.com

• Southwest Crossroads - the School of American Research's history site
• A very brief history of New Mexico - from New Mexico Magazine
• A brief history of the Land of Enchantment - from the New Mexico Blue Book Online
• Timeline of New Mexico History

  Dorothea Lange, Bosque Farms project. Making adobe brick for school and permanent houses (1935) from America from the Great Depression to WWII at at the Library of Congress', American Memory Collection

• Collections of links
  • Hispanic culture/history links from New Mexico Magazine
  • Open Directory Project - New Mexico History
• WestWeb: Western History Resource
• History New Mexico Discussion Network
• How the Santa Fe Art Colony Began and Early American Modernists in New Mexico -- other short pieces about art history also available from the Feature Articles at Collectors Guide
• Archaeology and Prehistory
  • Virtual Reality Archaeology by Dennis Holloway -||- for example, his Tsping
  • Sipapu - The Anasazi Emergence into the Cyber World
  • Southwestern Archaeology
  • Puye Cliff Dwellings
  • Archaeological Sites of the Southwest
  • Chaco Canyon Overview || Chaco Library and Photo Gallery
• (Some) Biographical Resources
  • Last will and testament of Don Diego de Vargas from the National Archives
  • Governor Lew Wallace (author of Ben Hur)
  • WPA life histories from New Mexico
  • Charles Fletcher Lummis
  • The Online Archive of New Mexico has biographical sketches for each of the people whose papers are archived at the Center for Southwest Research. Examples include: public figures such as Toney Anaya or Elfego Baca; brief family histories such as for Ortiz y Pino family; architect Bainbridge Bunting; collections of papers for such organizations as the Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres; authors such as E. A. "Tony" Mares, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, and Sabine Ulibarri. This is a terrific resource for biographical information, though only a byproduct of the archive process.
  • Kit Carson, Coronado, and Popé are among the New Mexico figures profiled on PBS' New Perspectives on the West website
• Crypto-Jews
  • Hidden Jews of New Mexico Bibliography
  • links from the Southwest Jewish Archives
  • links at cryptojews.com
  • Marranos
  • Sephardim at herencia.com
• Some Particular Locations
  • The Cerrillos Hills Park
  • Loretto Academy of Las Cruces
  • Old Taos Plaza Photo album from the Taos County Historical Society -||- Taos Time Line
  • The Hispano Ranchos of Northern New Mexico: Continuity and Change - from the National Park Service
  • New Mexico Ghost Towns and Other Little-Known Places
  • Ghost Towns of New Mexico
  • Virtual Tour of Las Vegas New Mexico--Citizens Committee for Historic Preservation
• Roads
  • Santa Fe Trail Research Site
  • Santa Fe National History Trail (National Park Service)
  • Route 66 Associations, Organizations and Web Links
  • The Mother Road - Historic Route 66
  • New Mexico Route 66 Association
  • The Old Spanish Trail Association
• Trinity Site
  • A Blinding Dawn - terrific set of reprints (also available as a .pdf file) of 50th anniversary Trinity stories, from the Albuquerque Journal
  • Trinity Site page at White Sands Missle Range - includes more than 80 historical photos
  • History site at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Wars
  • The Pueblo Revolt from PBS' New Perspectives on The West website
  • From the National Archives and Records Admistration: New Mexico Casualties in the Korean War; New Mexico Casualties in the Vietnam War
  • Bataan Death March Images, from the Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Foundation
  • Navajo Code Talker's Dictionary
  • Navajo Code Talker's Fact Sheet
  • The Civil War in New Mexico (project of the Museum of New Mexico)
  • Civil War Archive - Union Regimental Index, New Mexico

Genealogy Resources

East Side of Plaza, Santa Fe, NM, 1866, from Photographs of the American West at the National Archives.

• Special Collections Branch, Rio Grande Valley Library System (Albuquerque)
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites - US - New Mexico
• Santa Fe County NM GenWeb Page
• RootsWeb New Mexico Genealogical Resouces
• New Mexico Counties List, NMGenWeb Project
• New Mexico Genealogical Society | their New Mexico Vital Record Information and New Mexico genealogy linkslinks
• Hispanic Genealogical Research Center
• Links from the National Society of Hispanic Genealogy
• NM Vital Records information & genealogy links for NM
• Santa Fe National Cemetery Burial Records
• Cemetery links from the Open Directory Project