Center of Southwest Studies : Finding Aids

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Please note: there are gaps in the list of finding aids because we have not completed full inventories for all of our collections. All of the Center's Special Collections are cataloged at the collection level in the OPAC. Click here for tips on searching for Special Collections in the OPAC.

C-Maps D-Digital F-Artifacts I-Microforms M-Manuscripts P-Photos U-Audio

C - Maps back to top

C 001	Southwest maps: draft (includes some digital images)
C 003	Cutter world maps (includes some digital images)
C 004	Hayden Survey maps, Colorado and adjacent territory, mid-1870s (includes some digital images)
C 007	Southwest U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maps (includes some digital images)

D - Digital back to top

D 002.05	Arborglyphs drawings and photographs by Esther Greenfield (carvings on aspen trees in Southwestern Colorado)
D 003	Vallecito Dam construction photos, 1938-1940 (La Plata County, CO)

F - Artifacts back to top

F 001	Daisy and G. F. Snyder photographic equipment
F 014	Southwest textiles (digital images)
F 021	The Durango Collection®

I - Microforms back to top

I 002	Census records on microfilm for the Four Corners States, 1850-1930; and Indian census rolls for the U.S., 1832-1940
I 004	Spanish Archives of New Mexico on microfilm
I 005	Mexican Archives of New Mexico on microfilm
I 032	John Gregory Bourke diaries on microfilm
I 034	Carlos Montezuma, et al., papers on microfilm
I 035	Indian Rights Association records on microfilm
I 036	Society of American Indians papers on microfilm
I 039	North American Indians periodicals on microfilm
I 047 and M 088	Newspapers of the Southwest: listed by title ... or listed geographically (Southwestern U.S., especially the Four Corners region)
M 103 and I 052	Pine River Irrigation District records (La Plata County, CO)
I 068	Sanborn Fire Insurance maps of selected cities in the Four Corners

M - Manuscripts back to top

M 001	Fort Lewis College archives
M 001 Ser. 10.1	Fort Lewis College press releases index, 1971 thru last month
M 002	Western Colorado Power Company records
M 002 Ser. 2.1	L. L. Nunn papers (within the Western Colorado Power Company records)
M 007	Uranium mining collection (papers collected by Denny Viles regarding uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau, in Rhodesia, and elsewhere in the world)
M 008	Durango, CO Uranium Mill Tailings Removal collection
M 009	Porter/Hesperus/Gifford records (includes Durango vicinity coal mining records and digital images)
M 016	Durango, CO Chamber of Commerce records
M 017	La Plata Abstract Company (CO) records (includes hundreds of articles of incorporation for early Durango area businesses)
M 018	Denver and Rio Grande Western records (Colorado)
M 019	Rio Grande Southern Railroad records (Western slope of Colorado)
M 025	Phone books (Southwestern U.S.)
M 027	Durango, CO City Government records
M 028	La Plata County (CO) Government records
M 028 Ser. 3.2	La Plata County (CO) marriages records, 1876-1959
M 028 Ser. 14.10.1	La Plata County (CO) Register of the Poor, 1891-1942: indexes
M 028 Ser. 17.1	La Plata County (CO) Justice of the Peace case files, 1880-1954
M 030	Ben Nighthorse Campbell papers (draft; collection is closed for processing)
M 032	Jim Dyer papers (Colorado)
M 033	Scott McInnis papers (draft; collection is closed)
M 034	Dan Noble papers (Colorado)
M 037	Boston-Searcy papers (Durango, CO and vicinity)
M 040	Helen Sloan Daniels papers (Southwestern U.S.)
M 042	Kroeger Family records of the Woodmen of the World, Aztec Camp No. 30 (Durango, CO)
M 045	McPhee (CO) records (records of the company town)
M 046	Helene Searcy Puls papers (Durango, CO and vicinity)
M 048	Duane Smith papers
M 049	Robert Sullenberger papers (Western slope of Colorado, especially Pagosa Springs and vicinity)
M 053-049	Kenneth Logan papers and 1903-06 Durango burial permits summary
M 053-069	Vietnam correspondence of Mark W. Howe: Pháo Binh A Marine artillery officer’s letters from Vietnam, 1966-67 (digitized)
M 060	Four Corners Environmental Research Institute (FOCERI) records
M 061	Indian Rights Association pamphlets
M 063	Richard Ellis papers, draft; collection is closed (Southwestern U.S.)
M 064	Durango, CO personages collection
M 065	Durango, CO naturalization records
M 068	La Plata County Historical Society/Animas Museum (Durango, CO) records
M 069	Historic preservation records (Colorado)
M 072	Durango Public Schools (Colorado District 9-R) records
M 073	Reading Club of Durango, CO records
M 075	Bayfield, CO Ku Klux Klan records (also on microfilm, I 103)
M 076	Grand Army of the Republic (southwest Colorado) records
M 080	U.S. Forest Service collection (Western slope of Colorado)
M 080 Ser. 1.4	Pagosa Ranger District (San Juan National Forest) logbooks, 1917-1925, from the U.S. Forest Service collection (Southwest CO)
M 082	Mesa Verde (CO) printed materials
I 047 and M 088	Newspapers of the Southwest: listed by title ... or listed geographically (Southwestern U.S., especially the Four Corners region)
M 092	Animas-La Plata Project collection (Durango, CO federal water project)
M 093	First National Bank of Durango records
M 094	Zeke Flora papers (Durango, CO and vicinity)
M 100	Gordon Store (Durango, CO) records
M 102	Susan A. Davies papers (Durango, CO)
M 103 and I 052	Pine River Irrigation District records (La Plata County, CO)
M 104	Helene Monberg papers (Southwestern U.S.)
M 107	Southwest student papers
M 113	Ute printed materials collection
M 118	Fort Lewis Military Post (Hesperus, CO) federal records
M 120	Animas City, CO government records
M 121	Theodore Hetzel papers (Native Americans throughout the United States)
M 124	Homer Root museum objects accession ledgers (Southwestern U.S.) (digital images)
M 126	Edmund Scott papers (early mining on the Western slope of Colorado)
M 127	Myra Ellen Jenkins papers (Southwestern U.S.; especially New Mexico)
M 130	Spanish Trails Fiesta records (Durango, CO)
M 132	Alton Dorsett, Durango, CO real estate development collection (draft)
M 134	Florida (La Plata County, CO) Schools records
M 139	League of Women Voters of La Plata County (CO) record
M 142	Southwest Colorado political campaign materials
M 146	Industrial equipment catalogs
M 149	Al and Alice Lancaster papers (papers regarding Southwest archaeological work)
M 160	Centuries Research archaeological consulting work records (Western slope of Colorado)
M 161	Southwest Water Conservation District (Durango, CO) records
M 175	Union Carbide Western Slope of Colorado uranium mining records
M 179	E. Reeseman Fryer papers (Southwestern U.S. and elsewhere in the world, including the Middle East)
M 180	Four Corners printed materials and ephemera collection
M 191	Andrew Gulliford papers
M 192	Ed Zink mountain biking papers (Durango, Colorado mountain bike competition records)
M 194	Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado collection: includes postcards of Southwest Colorado (digital images)
M 194 Ser. 1	Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado printed materials
M 195	Southwest postcards (Southwestern U.S.)
M 198	Bandelier National Monument (N.M.) rock art drawings by Lisa Ferguson Stoeffel (digital images)
M 199	Evans-Crumbo mining records (Taos, N.M.)
M 201	Montezuma Valley Water Supply Company (CO) records
M 202	San Juan Basin Archaeological Society (Durango, CO) records
M 203	Ernest and Edith Shaw collection (Weminuche region of Archuleta County in southwest Colorado)
M 204	Red Mountain, CO cultural resources survey records (Western slope of Colorado)
M 206	Navajo claims collection records compiled by Dr. John Kessell (Southwestern U.S.; especially the Four Corners region)
M 211	Fort Lewis Indian School (Hesperus, CO) federal records
M 213	Bayfield, CO Study Club records
M 214	Robert and Florence Lister papers (Southwestern U.S., especially the Four Corners region)
M 215	Alden Hayes papers (papers regarding Southwest archaeological work)
M 221	Ward Shepard/John Collier papers
M 221	John Collier articles series, 1959-1960, in the Ward Shepard/John Collier papers (digital images)
M 222	Robert and Gigi York Southwestern cultural collection (papers regarding Southwest archaeological work)
M 224	R. H. "Bob" Tyner papers (includes postcards of southwestern Colorado)
M 227	Clinton Conner Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad papers
M 229	Langan W. Swent papers: Health and safety in underground uranium mines
M 230	Four Corners Free Methodist Church records
M 231	Mercy Hospital (Durango, CO) records (DRAFT: includes data from patient records, 1896-1906)
M 233	De Lasso Loos Four Corners oil and gas engineering collection (Northeast Blanco Unit and elsewhere in northwestern New Mexico and the Four Corners region)
M 234	La Plata County (CO) Search and Rescue records
M 236	United Pueblos Agency records (New Mexico and adjacent areas of Southwestern U.S.)
M 238	Alva Lyons papers (Durango, CO and vicinity)
M 240	Hammond family letters (Dolores, CO and vicinity)

P - Photos back to top

P 001	General photographs (includes digital images)
P 003	Theodore Hetzel photographs (Native Americans throughout the United States)
P 008	Ansel Hall photographs (Western U.S., especially the Southwest)
P 008	Ansel Hall's Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1933-1934 photo albums (digital images: Arizona/New Mexico)
P 010	B. J. Ochsner photographs(Durango, CO and vicinity)
P 011	Durango, CO Herald photonegatives, 1955-1992 (draft)
P 013	Arthur Wyatt slides (photographs of Durango, CO and vicinity)
P 014	George Kelly slides (a horticulturalist's photographs of Durango, CO and vicinity)
P 015	Small collections of photographs (Southwestern U.S., especially the Four Corners region)
P 016	George Puth photographs (Silverton, CO)
P 017	Small collections of slides (Southwestern U.S., especially the Four Corners region)
P 017.09	Robert York southwestern slides (Southwest archaeological sites and San Juan National Forest scenes)
P 017.010 and P 015.33	Olga Little photographs (woman Southwestern Colorado mule skinner)
P 026	Rio Grande Southern Railroad photographs (Western slope of Colorado)
P 028	Mesa Verde (CO) photographs
P 034	Alden Hayes slides (photographs of Southwest archaeological sites)
P 037	Southwest photo albums (Southwestern U.S., especially the Four Corners region)
P 042	Walker Art Studio (Montrose, CO) Southwest Colorado historic photonegatives
P 047	John Funk slides (Southwest scenery, 1950-1990)
P 048	E. Reeseman Fryer photos (Southwestern U.S. and elsewhere in the world, including the Middle East)
P 049	Blackington Southwest photographs (Southwestern U.S.)
P 051	Tom O. and H. Lucille Kimball Indian Collection photographs (digital images)
P 056	Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado photographs
P 057	Edward Ellison photographs (the Southwest, especially New Mexico)
P 058	Gayle Maloy slides (Four Corners Southwest scenery, circa latter 20th century)
P 060	Al and Edith Ingersoll family slides (photographs of La Plata Canyon)

U - Audio back to top

U 0XX	Oral history interviews (Southwestern U.S., especially the Four Corners region)
U 0XX	Sounds of the Southwest: digitized sound recordings selected from the Center's special collections
U 001	Fort Lewis College oral history collection
U 002	U.S. Forest Service oral history collection, especially pertaining to the USFS Centennial in 1991 (Western slope of Colorado)
U 003	Durango, CO oral history collection
U 004	Southwest oral history collection (Southwestern U.S., especially the Four Corners region)
U 005	Theodore Hetzel audio recordings (Native Americans throughout the United States)
U 008	American Indian oral history project at the University of Utah (Duke collection) interview transcripts
U 010	U.S. Forest Service Mancos District Cherry Creek Thompson Park, CO oral history project records
U 011	World War II oral history project records (Western slope of Colorado)
U 012	Southern Ute oral history collection
U 013	Vallecito Dam Oral History Project interviews
U 016	American Indian historical research project at the University of New Mexico interview transcripts
U 017	Farmington, NM oral history project records
U 018	Andrew Gulliford oral histories
U 020	Southwest LP phonographs (Southwestern U.S., especially the Four Corners region)
U 023	Southwest sounds: audio CDs from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings