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Doing Local History in Santa Fe

Children in their Sunday clothes, by A. M. Neal
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 Santa Fe Public Library, Main Branch

  • 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 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" - extensive clipping files and information files on Santa Fe and New Mexico topics--artists, places, events, etc. Ask at the Main Library Reference Desk.
  • Microfiche of City Council Minutes, 12-19-36/12-13-39
  • 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:

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Resources at Other Libraries

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

Online Photographic Resources

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Maps

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Museums and Organizations

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Online Full-text Resources

Bosque Farms Project, by Dorothea Lange
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

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History Topics

Archaeology & Prehistory -- Biographical Resources -- Crypto-Jews -- Roads -- Trinity -- Wars

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Genealogy Resources

East Side of Plaza, Santa Fe, N.M., 1866
East Side of Plaza, Santa Fe, NM, 1866,
from Photographs of the American West
at the National Archives.
Obituary Resources:

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Last update April 27, 2011
Email: library@santafenm.gov
Santa Fe Public Library, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
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