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Guide to the Bruce T. Ellis Collection, 1712-1980

Museum of New Mexico, The Palace of the Governors, Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

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The Palace of the Governors



Collection Summary

Title Guide to the Bruce T. Ellis Collection,
Dates (Inclusive) 1712-1980
Provenance Ellis, Bruce T., 1903-
Collection Number AC 075
Size Papers, 1.25 linear ft., Bound volume, 1. linear feet
Repository Museum of New Mexico. Fray Angélico Chávez History Library.
Language English.

Scope and Content

The Bruce T. Ellis Collection consists of various original and photostatic copies of the Spanish, Mexican and American period of New Mexico's history. Ellis, a former employee of the Museum of New Mexico's History Bureau, collected and saved many of these diverse documents from destruction. The collection is arranged topically and then chronologically.


Restrictions

Access Restrictions

None

Copy Restrictions

Duplication allowed for research purposes. User responsible for all copyright compliance.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Guide to the Bruce T. Ellis Collection, Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.


Separated Material

Photographs received with the collection are housed and cataloged separately

Maps received with the collection are housed separately


Access Terms

Cathedral of San Francisco de Assis (Santa Fe, N.M.)

Cathedrals--New Mexico--Santa Fe

Clippings

Fort Marcy (N.M.)--History

Historical Society of New Mexico

Huth, George

Lamy, John Baptist, 1814-1888

Manuscripts for publication

Maps

Museum of New Mexico

New Mexico--History--1848-

New Mexico--History--to 1848

Perea, Francisco, 1830-1913

Perez, Demetrio

Prince, L. Bradford (Le Baron Bradford), 1840-1922)

Publications

Read, Benjamin Maurice, 1853-1927

Real estate inventment--New Mexico

Renehan, Alois B.

Reports

Santa Fe (N.M)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Santa Fe (N.M.)--History--18th century

School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)

Scrapbooks

Unfinished works


Contents List

Description Container

Inventory: Of Bruce T. Ellis' donation typed, 17 June 1980.

2 pp.

Box 1 Folder 1

Manuscript: Handwritten and printers proof Benjamin M. Read Illustrated History of New Mexico 3rd edition, ca. 1912.

Box 1 Folder 2

Handwritten, unpublished Benjamin M. Read "Sidelights of New Mexican History". Copyright 1915.

Box 1 Folder 3

Typescript: unpublished Benjamin M. Read "Sidelights of New Mexican History". Copyright 1915.

Box 2 Folder 1

Inventory: Incomplete listing of Benjamin M. Read's personal collection of historical documents, no date,

35 pages

Box 2 Folder 2

Letter: Handwritten, 9 pages George Huth to Benjamin M. Read, 4 April 1923, Los Angeles.

Huth's reminiscences of life in the Southwest including his military service during the 1850s.

Box 2 Folder  3

Correspondence: Between Lula P. Valdez and Benjamin M. Read, 1926.

Relative to recording a biographical sketch of Civil War veteran and New Mexico delegate to Congress Francisco Perea (1-9-1830 to 5-23-1913).

Box 2 Folder 4

Manuscript: No date, 30 pages. Relative to Demetrio Perez's "El Illmas y Revma. Sr. Don Juan B. Lamy".

Handwritten, incomplete, published in El Palacio by Bruce T. Ellis.

Box 2 Folder 5

Documents: Miscellaneous photostatic and original documents relative to the Palace of Governors; primarily architecturally 1792 to 1916

Box 2 Folder 6

Documents: Miscellaneous photostatic and original documents relative to Fort Marcy; historically and architecturally, 1853 to 1959.

Box 2 Folder 7

Documents: Miscellaneous original documents and plats relative to the real estate investments of Alois B. Renehan (1-6-1869 to?) -- Santa Fe attorney and speculator, 1903 to 1925.

Box 2 Folder 8

Pamphlet: Museum of New Mexico General information, 1909 to 1970s.

Box 2 Folder 9

Reports: Museum of New Mexico Administration, 1947 to 1976.

Box 2 Folder  10

Reports: Mitchell A. Wilder, The Museum of New Mexico: A Study of Program and Operations Los Angeles, 1958.

Box 3 Folder  1

Pamphlet and publications: Museum of New Mexico Palace of Governors 1912 to 1964.

Box 3 Folder 2

Newspapers and periodicals: Museum of New Mexico Fine Arts Bureau 1915 to 1918.

Box 3 Folder 3

Newspaper, pamphlets and publications: Museum of New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology, 1927, 1928.

Box 3 Folder 4

Pamphlets, reports and publications: The School of American Archaeology, The School of American Research, 1913 to 1960

Box 3 Folder 5

Pamphlets and Report: Indian Arts Fund Inc., Santa Fe, 1925 to 1965.

Box 3 Folder 6

Pamphlets and Reports: New Mexico Historical Society, 1859 to 1966.

Box 3 Folder 7

Programs: Two copies "Program Pamphlet of the Conference on the History of Western America," Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 12, 13, 14 October 1961. Inception of the Western History Association (WHA).

Box 3 Folder 8

Report: The Pueblo Indian Center Foundation Inc., Cuyamunque, New Mexico, 1960s[?].

Box 3 Folder 8

Correspondence: Letter of 1881 relative to the identity and character of William "Billy the Kid" Bonney. Virtually unreadable in photostatic form. 

Box 3 Folder 10

Publications: Selections From Oahspe: A New Bible Nos. 2, 3, 4 and index. Inscribed by Bradford Prince. Oahspe is a late 1800s version of the Bible used by the New Mexico Shalom Community. 

Box 3 Folder 11

Press release and publication: "The North American Indian: Extracts from Reviews of the Book, and Comments on the Work of Its Author, Edward S. Curtis" No date, no place.

8 pages.

Box 3 Folder 12

Photostatic copy: W. H. Jackson, Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians Washington: Government Printing Office, [Department of the Interior, U.S.G.S. Survey of the Territories, Miscellaneous Publications No. 9], 1877.

Box 3 Folder 13

Original Manuscript by Bruce T. Ellis. Temples of their Times....Bishop Lamy's Santa Fe Cathedral, with notes on the old Spanish church and convent formerly on the site. 

Published as, Bishop Lamy's Santa Fe Cathedral. University of New Mexico Press, 1985.

Box 4  

Item 1 
Legal brief: Photostatic copy of original from NM State Records Center Antonia de Moraga v. Juan de Sosa Canela Santa Fe, 1712[?].

See Twitchell's Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Vol. I, #491

Box 5-s  

Item 3 
Document: Photostatic copy of original from NM State Record Center Diego Arias de Quiros Santa Fe, 24 July 1715.

Discourse on topography and land use in Santa Fe See Twitchell's Spanish Archives of New Mexico, Vol. I, #8

Box 5-s  

Item 2 
Photostatic copy of original from NM State Records Center 1756 discourse on the streets of Santa Fe. 

Box 5-s  

Item 4 
Scrapbook: Bradford Prince's newsclippings and correspondence on the founding of 1) The Museum of New Mexico 2) The School of American Research 3) The Edgar Lee Hewett Controversy 4) Society for Preservation of Spanish Antiquities 5) New Mexico Historical Society 1907 to 1915.

Box 5-s  

Item 5 
Containing unattached enclosures to the Bradford Prince Scrapbook. 

Box 5-s  

Relevant Secondary Sources

Ellis, Bruce T. Bishop Lamy's Cathedral. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985


 
 
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