Guide to the Lansing B. Bloom Collection, 1551-1940

New Mexico History Museum, Fray Angélico Chávez History Library

Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
New Mexico History Museum
P.O. Box 2087
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2087, U.S.A.
Phone: (+)505.476.5090
Email: historylibrary@state.nm.us



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New Mexico History Museum



Collection Summary

Title Lansing B. Bloom Collection,
Dates (Inclusive) 1930-1940
Creator Bloom, Lansing Bartlett -- 1880-1946
Collection Number AC 020
Size 1.5 Linear feet
Repository New Mexico History Museum. Fray Angélico Chávez History Library.
Languages English, Spanish.

Personal History

Lansing Bloom was assistant director of the Museum of New Mexico and later a professor of history at the University of New Mexico. He was president of the Historical Society of New Mexico.


Scope and Content

Collection consists primarily of photostats and photocopies of a broad range of historical documents, reports, and publications from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain, and Biblioteca Nacional in Mexico City, and the Bibloteca Archignasio Mezzofanti-Manoscritti in Bologna, Italy. Bloom's correspondence regarding the acquisition of these materials are included. The collection contains approx. 1100 index cards with entries of FRanciscan missionaries to New Mexico from pre-1691 to 1851. Collection also includes a photocopy and English translation of a 1603 report on the activities of Fray Alonso Benavides in New Mexico. The 1928 research notes of Dr. S.H. Bemis from his work with facsimiles of Spanish archives at the Library of Congress are also included.


Restrictions

Access Restrictions

None

Copy Restrictions

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


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Lansing B. Bloom Collection, Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.


Access Terms

Archivo General de Indias

Bemis, S.H.

Benavides, Alonso de, -- fl. 1630

Biblioteca Comunale dell 'Archiginnasio (Bologna, Italy)

Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico

Bloom, Lansing Bartlett, 1880-1946

Fransicans -- New Mexico

Mezzofanti, Giuseppe Gasparo, Cardinal, 1771-1849

Missionaries -- New Mexico

New Mexico -- Description and travel

New Mexico -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish

New Mexico -- History -- To 1848

Reports

Visas


Contents List

Description Container

Doc. Indeditos (pp. 88-141), "Treslado de la Posesion que en Nombre de su Magestad tomo Don Juan de Oñate..." 

Box 1 Folder 1

Worksheets -- Madrid for L.C., Dr. S.H. Bemis 

Box 1 Folder 2

Lansing Bloom - Victor R. Stoner correspondence 

Box 1 Folder 3

Fray Alonso Benavides notes 

Box 1 Folder 4

"Indice de documentos relativos a Nuevo Mexico" 

Box 1 Folder 5

Archivo General de Indias (AGI), Legajos 

Box 1 Folder 6

Francisco Diaz de Vargas material (AGI) 

Box 1 Folder 7

Charges against Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, notes, translations 

Box 1 Folder 8

Bernardo de Sahaguan, notes, Medici Library, 1938 

Box 1 Folder 9

"Noticias del Historia" (translation 1911) 

Box 1 Folder 10

"Noticias del Historia" (translation 1911 continued) 

Box 1 Folder 11

Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca material (1837) 

Box 1 Folder 12

L. Bloom - Fr. Otto Maes, correspondence 

Box 1 Folder 13

Miscellaneous notes 

Box 1 Folder 14

Lansing Bloom visa documents and passes to the Biblioteca National 

Box 1 Folder 15

List of missionaries - to 1694 

Box 1 Folder 16

List of missionaries - 1691 to 1851 

Box 1 Folder 17

"Custodians of New Mexico" 

Box 2 Folder 1

Archivo di Propaganda, notes and transcriptions 

Box 2 Folder 2

Miscellaneous correspondence and notes 

Box 2 Folder 3

San Luis Ray Mission, Ca. ca. 1820 - notes from Biblioteca Archiginnasio, Bologna 

Box 2 Folder 4

Mezzofanti-Manoscritti nos. 1.1 to 1.19, Biblioteca Archiginnasio, Bologna 

Box 2 Folder 5

Mezzofanti-Manoscritti nos. 1.20 to 1.38, Biblioteca Archiginnasio, Bologna 

Box 2 Folder 6

Mezzofanti-Manoscritti nos. 2.1 to 2.11, Biblioteca Archiginnasio, Bologna 

Box 2 Folder 7

Mezzofanti-Manoscritti nos. 2.12 to 2.28, Biblioteca Archiginnasio, Bologna 

Box 2 Folder 8

Mezzofanti-Manoscritti nos. 2.29 to 2.38, Biblioteca Archiginnasio, Bologna 

Box 2 Folder 9

Mezzofanti-Manoscritti nos. 3.1 to 3.20, Biblioteca Archiginnasio, Bologna 

Box 2 Folder 10

Mezzofanti-Manoscritti nos. 3.21 to 3.36, Biblioteca Archiginnasio, Bologna 

Also included are photocopies of missing pages of Bent Family Bible

Box 2 Folder 11

"Historic New Mexico" December 1936 [added 03.23.2011] 

Two slightly different versions of a WPA essay (68pp and 71pp)

Box 2 Folder 12

Index cards of missionaries from the Spanish, Mexican, and US Territorial periods. (see also Box 1, Folders 16 and 17) 

Box 3