New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections

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'''E-mail:'''<ref name="email">[http://lib.nmsu.edu/emaillib/archivesdept_email.shtml at New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections ] .</ref> <br>  
 
'''E-mail:'''<ref name="email">[http://lib.nmsu.edu/emaillib/archivesdept_email.shtml at New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections ] .</ref> <br>  
  
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:Box 30006, Dept. 3475
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:Las Cruces, NM 88003-8006
  
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'''Address:'''<ref name="address">[http://lib.nmsu.edu/depts/archives/rghc.shtml Visitor Information] at New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections] (accessed 01 March 2013).</ref> <br>
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'''Address:'''<ref name="address">[http://lib.nmsu.edu/depts/archives/rghc.shtml Visitor Information] at New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections] (accessed 01 March 2013).</ref> <br>  
  
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:4th Floor Branson Library
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:Las Cruces, NM 88003-8006  
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<br> '''Telephone:'''<ref name="address" /> (575)646-3839<br>'''Or'''<ref name="address" /> (575)646-2932 <br>  
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'''Hours and holidays:'''<ref name="Hrs-Map">[http://lib.nmsu.edu/aboutlib/libhours.shtml Library Hours] in ''New Mexico State University'' (accessed 1 March 2013).</ref> Library hours correspond to the University semesters.<br>  
 
'''Hours and holidays:'''<ref name="Hrs-Map">[http://lib.nmsu.edu/aboutlib/libhours.shtml Library Hours] in ''New Mexico State University'' (accessed 1 March 2013).</ref> Library hours correspond to the University semesters.<br>  
  
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*[http://lib.nmsu.edu/aboutlib/maps/buildingmaps.shtml One map showing Both Libraries]<ref name="Hrs-Map" />  
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*[ib.nmsu.edu/aboutlib/maps/buildingmaps.shtml One map showing Both Libraries]<ref name="Hrs-Map" />
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*[http://maps.nmsu.edu/ Searchable map for the Whole University]<ref name="address" />  
 
*[http://maps.nmsu.edu/ Searchable map for the Whole University]<ref name="address" />  
 
*[http://lib.nmsu.edu/directory/directory.php Library Directory]
 
*[http://lib.nmsu.edu/directory/directory.php Library Directory]
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'''Internet sites and databases:'''  
 
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*[http://www.library.cornell.edu/ Cornell University Library Internet site-Home]: Libraries; Library Services; Hours and Maps; Articles; Ebooks; Databases; Research Help; Library Services; Search for books, journals, and more at Cornell and libraries worldwide; FAQs; Renew books.  
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*[ib.nmsu.edu/depts/archives/rghc_list.shtml Rio Grande Historical Collections (RGHC) Home]: Libraries; Library Services; Hours and Maps; Articles; Ebooks; Databases; Research Help; Library Services; Search for books, journals, and more.
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*[http://www.library.cornell.edu/ Cornell University Library Online Catalog] Has a keyword, title, author, and subject search.  
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*[http://lib.nmsu.edu/forms/arch_rghchelp.shtml RGHC Collections - List] Has a keyword, title, author, and subject search.  
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*[http://erms.library.cornell.edu/search~S4 Cornell University Library Databases] Biographies, Newspapers, History, Geography, Maps<br><br>
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*[http://lib.nmsu.edu/depts/archives/oral_history_list.shtml Oral History Interviews] Oral History Interviews<br><br>
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*[http://archphotos.nmsu.edu/ Photographic Collection] This RGHC Collection has over 500,000 photos.
  
 
=== Collection Description  ===
 
=== Collection Description  ===

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New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections


Contents

Contact Information

E-mail:[1]

New Mexico State University Library
Box 30006, Dept. 3475
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8006

Address:[2]

4th Floor Branson Library
1305 Frenger Mall
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8006


Telephone:[2] (575)646-3839
Or[2] (575)646-2932

Hours and holidays:[3] Library hours correspond to the University semesters.


Maps:



Internet sites and databases:

  • [ib.nmsu.edu/depts/archives/rghc_list.shtml Rio Grande Historical Collections (RGHC) Home]: Libraries; Library Services; Hours and Maps; Articles; Ebooks; Databases; Research Help; Library Services; Search for books, journals, and more.
  • RGHC Collections - List Has a keyword, title, author, and subject search.
  • Oral History Interviews Oral History Interviews

  • Photographic Collection This RGHC Collection has over 500,000 photos.

Collection Description

  • Collection Overview Gateway to one of the largest libraries in the world, including online search features and access to linked databases and websites for the Cornell community.  The Cornell University Library's collections encompass a rich and varied universe of printed volumes, digital resources, maps, media, and archival materials.

Tips

  • Finding Articles Tips To find articles on specific topics, start with an article database that covers many subject areas.

Guides

Alternate Repositories

If you cannot visit or find a source at the New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections, a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections

  • New York Public Library Genealogy Division has an outstanding collection of American history at national, state and local levels; international genealogy and heraldry in Roman alphabets; Dorot Jewish collection; photos; New York censuses, directories, and vital records.
  • New York Public Library Branches over 90 in New York City.
  • New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, national in scope. Over 100 million name database, of vital records, genealogies, journals, over 200,000 books, 100,000 microfilms, and over 20 million manuscripts with emphasis on New England and New York since the 1600s.
  • National Archives Northeast Region (New York City), censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty land, photos, passenger indexes, New York port and shipping, naturalizations, inventions.
  • National Archives Northeast Region (Boston) (that is Waltham), censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty land, photos, passenger indexes, naturalizations, African Americans, Indians.
  • Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam Municipal Archives) early Dutch notarial records of New York.

Similar Collections

  • Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, holds 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, and Mormon records.
  • Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, premier periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, ethnic collections, and Canadians.
  • Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Local History and Genealogy Reading Room is part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, books, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources
  • Newberry Library, Chicago, genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, & British Isles.
  • Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, MO, national censuses/indexes, 80,000 family histories, 100,000 local histories, 565,000 microfilms, 7,000 maps, and newspapers.
  • National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service & pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons.
  • Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 85,000 volumes about the Jewish Holocaust, largest yizkor book collection.

Neighboring Collections

  • New York State Library, Albany, has local histories, genealogies, atlases, church, cemetery (including DAR), city directories, microfilmed newspapers, censuses, passenger lists, and periodicals.
  • New York State Archives, Albany, has manuscripts, vital record indexes, land grants, maps, military, court, alien depositions, prisoners, Erie Canal passenger lists, wills, estates, and state censuses.
  • New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City has censuses, city directories, church, cemetery, Bible, land, probates, genealogy, local history, and manuscripts.
  • New York Historical Society manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, histories, directories, maps, photos.
  • Vital Records Section of the New York State Dept. of Health, Menands, NY, for outside New York City births and deaths (1881-present), and marriage licenses (1880-present). Also, all divorces since 1963.
  • Municipal Archives has New York City birth, death, and marriage records; the 1890 police census; city directories; voter registrations; almshouse records; and municipal government records.
  • Courts: city, state, and federal.
  • Brooklyn Historical Society includes finding aids and collections guides to archives, manuscripts, oral histories, photographs, paintings, oral history database, and maps.
  • Columbia University Libraries, history, biography, ethnic studies, newspapers, government documents.
  • Holland Society 7,000 New Netherland family and local history books, Dutch Reformed Church records.
  • Huguenot Historical Society open by appointment: history, settlement, genealogy, biography, theology.
  • YIVO Institute for Jewish Research East European Jewish immigrant studies, gazetteers, yizkor books (Holocaust town memorial books), biographical directories, Landsmanshaft records.
  • Leo Baeck Insitiute preserves family and community histories about Jews in German speaking countries.

Sources

  1. ↑ at New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections .
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Visitor Information at New Mexico State University Library Rio Grande Historical Collections] (accessed 01 March 2013).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Library Hours in New Mexico State University (accessed 1 March 2013).
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