C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Claudia Rivers
University Library 747-6725
Primary source materials for environmental history in
Personal and family papers: Examples include Hyslop-Beckmann family papers (mining and ranching); Ian Benton hacienda records (ranching); John G. Barry papers on economic geology; Max Weber papers (mining, water resources); H. B. Stevens papers (real estate, insurance, and railroads); Elsie McElroy Slater papers (wrote about birds, ferns of El Paso region)
Business records:
Organizational records: Alert Citizens for Environmental Safety (ACES) records (group fighting nuclear waste dump in Sierra Blanca); Texas Water Resources Collection
Photographic collections: Gertrude Fitzgerald photographs (lumber and railroads); Paso Del Norte Airshed Visibility Project slides; Manuel Carrillo collection (traditional Mexican agriculture, other industries), El Paso Times negatives, El Paso Herald-Post photo files, Aultman photographs
Maps: Southern Pacific RR maps
Mine diagrams, other blue line maps
Maps showing the changes in the course of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo
Assorted historical maps of
Oral Histories: Over 900 oral history interviews
Government records:
Deed books, sheriffs' minute books, probate files, chattel mortgage books
Eighth District Court of Appeals records
Rio Grande Compact Commission (El Paso Office) records
Mexican state records:
Mexican municipal records:
Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Janos, Carrizal,Parral
Other Mexican archives:
Archivo Justicial de Parral, Chih.
Archivo Justicial de Guerrero, Chih.
Official Gazettes:
Periodico Oficial de Chihuahua (under several titles)
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