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New Mexico

 Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: Coordinates: Lat: 35 00 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 35.0000 decimal degrees Long: 105 00 00 W degrees minutes Long: -105.0000 decimal degrees

Note: Inhabited by 8,000 BCE; Anasazi & ancestors of Pima & Papago lived here by 12-13th cen. CE; Navajo & Apache arrived here from N by 15th cen.; Spanish arrived 16-17th cen.; area went to Mexico in 1821, to USA in 1848 in Mexican War; with Union in Civil War.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Georgia O'Keeffe to Jack Cominsky, Western Union Telegram, circa 1950

 Item
Identifier: 2015.1.119
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Frances O'Brien Papers Relating to Georgia O'Keeffe contains materials collected by Frances O'Brien. The materials document the friendship between the two women from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s.There are approximately one hundred original letters, postcards, and telegrams from O'Keeffe to O'Brien dating from 1947 to 1971. Additionally, there are photocopies of letters from O'Keeffe to O'Brien (only a few photocopies for which there is no original), as well as photocopies...
Dates: circa 1950