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Finding Aids

Center of Southwest Studies Archival Collections

 

The Center’s archival collections provide invaluable insights into the history and culture of Fort Lewis College, as well as the broader Southwest region. Our collections encompass a wide variety of materials, including letters and correspondence, photographs, slides, negatives, financial and business records, maps, audiovisual media, posters, published books and periodicals, original research data, digital files, and more. These resources are non-circulating but accessible to the broader public.

To explore our archival collections, please follow the link below. Many of the Center’s archival holdings are also cataloged at the collection level in the Fort Lewis College Library Catalog.

 

Link to Archival Database

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Archival Finding Aids

Finding aids are essential tools for exploring archival collections. They offer detailed information, including collection summaries, historical or biographical context, subject lists, and descriptions of the materials and their arrangement. Most finding aids also include a container list to help locate specific items within a collection. To learn more about using finding aids, please consult our Guide to Finding Aids

 

Our finding aids are updated on an ongoing basis. We add information to collections that are unprocessed or partially processed as we can.

Finding Aids

P014 - George Kelly slides

Collection Overview

  • Creator: George Kelly
  • Dates:
  • Extent: Approximately 5,000 film transparencies, in 1.5 document cases
  • Abstract:

    Views of natural features and other details in various places of the Southwest. Approximately 5,000 slides with indexes of views in the collection case file. Mr. Kelly, who was 93 in 1987, was a distinguished horticulturalist and amateur botanist. He wrote a dozen books about the plants and trees of the Rocky Mountain region and raised more than 300 species of roses at his home in Cortez, Colorado.

  • Language: English
  • Collection Identifier: P014
  • Physical Location: This collection is located at the Center of Southwest Studies on the campus of Fort Lewis College (1000 Rim Dr. Durango, CO).
CreatorGeorge Kelly
ExtentApproximately 5,000 film transparencies, in 1.5 document cases

Views of natural features and other details in various places of the Southwest. Approximately 5,000 slides with indexes of views in the collection case file. Mr. Kelly, who was 93 in 1987, was a distinguished horticulturalist and amateur botanist. He wrote a dozen books about the plants and trees of the Rocky Mountain region and raised more than 300 species of roses at his home in Cortez, Colorado.

LanguageEnglish
Collection IdentifierP014
Physical LocationThis collection is located at the Center of Southwest Studies on the campus of Fort Lewis College (1000 Rim Dr. Durango, CO).
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