Pathfinder #11: Native American Studies primary source materials at the Center of Southwest Studies.

Pathfinder #10: Railroad-related collections at the Center of Southwest Studies  (focus: narrow-gauge railroads of western and southwestern Colorado).

To view the list of all eleven topical guides to collection materials available for your use at the Delaney Southwest Research Library Center, visit http://swcenter.fortlewis.edu/inventory/Path.htm.

Tips for determining when a U.S. postcard was published; now includes images of representative types of postcards, from the Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado collection.

Langan W. Swent papers: Health and safety in underground uranium mines.  Arranged and described through the generous funding by the donor of the collection, Eleanor H. Swent.

The records of Free Methodist churches of the Four Corners region are now arranged and described online.  This project was the work of Linda Baker (archival intern at the Southwest Studies Center through funding from the Center’s Congressional Earmark for Native American professional training).  As so often has been the case in the rescue and preservation of local history records, Duane Smith was instrumental in bringing this collection to the Center.  Also, thanks to Juan Cullum, a former student of Professor Smith’s who learned the importance of history while a Fort Lewis College student and who thought to preserve and donate these materials when he found them on the property he purchased from the last Free Methodist Church of the area, across from Florida Mesa Elementary School.  This collection is useful for the study of local history, not just of this particular denomination but of various aspects of life in the Four Corners during the middle of the 20^th century.

Audio-visual recordings in the Ben Nighthorse Campbell papers, circa 1964-2006.  This was the work of student archival intern Gilbert Tracey, who has noted that these videotapes and audiotapes offer an insight into the character and personality of former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell.

Navajo Studies Conference at Fort Lewis College, 2004: a descriptive list of recordings at the Delaney Library.

Alden Hayes slides.  More than a thousand photographs of Southwest archaeological sites, 1958-1975.

Bayfield (Colo.) Study Club records.  Members of the Club, under the direction of President Judy London, assisted with the arrangement and description of these records.  Until their donation to the Center in 2004, the records were stored in the homes of officers and members of the club.

La Plata County (Colorado) Justice of the Peace case files, 1880-1954 (1,640 records).

Navajo claims collection records compiled by Dr. John Kessell.  Photocopies of historical documents, exhibits, files, note cards, and maps compiled by John Kessell as a researcher and expert witness when he was working for the Rodey Law Firm (Albuquerque, N.M.), which was representing the Navajo Nation before the U.S. Indian Claims Commission regarding Navajo land, oil and gas claims against the Federal Government between about 1977 and 1980.  The collection also includes three document cases of printed materials that Dr. Kessell compiled in the course of his research.

Robert and Florence Lister photographs.  Robert Lister and his widow Florence Lister were distinguished archaeologists of the Southwest region, with a long association with Mesa Verde and other Four Corners region sites. Mrs. Lister donated the collection to the Center of Southwest Studies by deed of gift on April 4, 2003.

Theodore Hetzel photographs.  Six thousand photos of Native America -- throughout the United States -- produced by a Quaker who was an Engineering Professor at Haverford College near Philadelphia and an active member of the Indian Rights Association.

Linda Baker was one of 30 persons selected to participate in the Western Archives Institute at San Diego State University for two weeks this summer.  She reports that it provided an astounding introduction to the many aspects of archival work and felt like being among the Who's Who of archival professionals.

Todd Ellison was recently recertified as a Certified Archivist.  Of the 28 certified archivists in the state of Colorado, only two of them are on the Western slope (the other person is in Gunnison).  For info about the meaning of archival certification, see http://www.certifiedarchivists.org/

The search to fill the Assistant College Archivist part-time position is in its final stages.  Stay tuned for the announcement of Diana Novara's successor.