Pecos, New Mexico, United States
· 1939-06-16
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Ortiz, Teodosio, Reuter, B. A.
B. Reuter Pecos, 'r:ew Mexico Zune 16, 1939 A*i 41 Words: 798 Corrections to my manuscript on A1 1193(4, the Pigeon Ranch All now owned and advertized by Mr. Tam Greer Eki I as the oldest well in the U. S. A. Information source for this correction of manuscript Teodosio Ortiz of Pecos, N. Mex. in my first interviews with Mr. Ortiz, i was served with an interpreter who failed to give me the full value of all that Mr. Ortiz had to say an the subject. In my past experiences with old Spanish…
United States, New Mexico
· 1936-07-27
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Baca, Elfego, Smith, Janet
,e2t, t/t_ri Accession no. /Oes Date received Consignment no. Shipped from. Label Amount -'057-01.v\S WPA L. C. PROJECT Form-3 UNIT Collection (or Type) Place of origin 2*. Date /A6 Project worker I,)L,J11.2,4/ Project editor.alita., Remarks vit Subject: INTERVIDt WITH ELFEGO BACA S-240 Folk -ways Submitted By: Janet Smith Original Copy, Not Rewritten Wordage: 1500 Date: July 27, 1956 Approved: Ina Sizer Cassidy, State Director 313333a. S-240 Folk -ways Smith; 7/27/36 cl -1500 INTERVIEW WITH…
United States, New Mexico
· 1936-10-23
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Baca, Elfego, Smith, Janet
get Accession no. w- 10 66 Date received Of/ 0/46 Consignment no. Shipped from 0424. 0444. Label Amount fp ccrem;-Fdel‹-rr WPA L. C. PROJECT UNIT Form -3 --Collection (or Type) ..44a,Ca• Place of origin Project worker Project editor_Lialsgz.. Remarks )\I Subject: _a: INTERVIEW WITH ELFEGO BACA S-240 Folk -ways Submitted By: Janet Smith Original Copy, Not Rewritten Wordage: 2,000 Dates Ally 15, 1956 Approved: Ina Sizer Cassidy, State Director 66 S-240 Folk -ways Smith; INTERVIEW WITH ELFEGO…
Albuquerque, United States, New Mexico
· 1937-03-17
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Roosa, Howard, Smith, Janet
Janet ,-5th 121d cast i,•;entral HOKARD ih)0SA (1) 14" ote. ra. PA, 4'1 r 0 Interview with Toward osa. t ttoosa said to me, 'I am interested in the work of lugene ',sallow. Rhodes. I have a copy of each of his books, but only one first edition. It's practioally impossible to got first editions of jhodes' work. I know the western representative of Eoughton nifflin is much interested in -.1hodes and he says the first editions seem to have disappeared.' "And it seems just as hard to find any real…
United States, New Mexico
· 1936-08-26
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Smith, Janet, Trujillo, Jose Garcia
Accession no. kArlo131 Date received /0110/9 Consignment no. Shipped from Label Amount p ec>e 4 WPA L. C. PROJECT 10kt Form -3 Title Place of origin Project worker Project editor Remarks S I UNIT Collection (or Type) tAitt.4.) ~-n14-44)-1TeX• Date q 1210 /3 b ICGZEB 'oc-t Subject: IYTERVIEW 7ITH JOSE GARCIA Y TRUJILLO S-240— Folk4fays Submitted By: Janet Smith Original Copy, Not Rewritten Wordage: 1,800 Date: August 26, 1936 Approved: Inc. Sizer Cassidy, State Director smito011ommiL0…
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
· 1937-03-22
· 10 pages
Recorded by: Ostic, Mrs. Bella, Smith, Janet
Janet Smith 1216 East Control Avenue Albuquerque, Nes Mamie* Interviews on .,tigeneMAR 22 193"4 Manlove Rhodes About 3,400 words. hint ML. OSTle "4. rim, I knew Gone Rhodes well," II. Ostia answered. "Guess I hardly ever knew anybody any better than I did (Mn.. ';it down." Gore in. he walked over to a shelf and took down a photogftph of a girl. ron the back of the frame she removed *amid 2lotures, sorted them over, and handed me two of them. tao was an old fashioned photograph in bad…
United States, New Mexico, Albuquerque
· 1936-09-14
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Fergusson, Mrs. Clara, Smith, Janet
:anet-Smith, Field Worker Interview with Mrs. Clara PerA;usson About words WITH MRS. CLARA FL.RGUSOY When I asked Mrs. Perguson to tell me of her pioneer life in New Mexico, she answered, "I'm not a pioneer in the exact sense of the word. Pr a native born New Mexican. I have spent most of my life here, an ell four of my childmen were born her in New Mexico." Yrs. Ferguson' father, Franz mining, came to New Mexico over the old Santa Pe Trail, by ox team in 1849. Ker husband, Harvey B.…
United States, New Mexico, Albuquerque
· 1936-08-17
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Myer, Mrs. Pauline, Smith, Janet
AUG 1 1.J36 Janet Smith Field Worker About 1500 words Page 1 INTERVIEW WITH MRS. PAULINE MYER. Soon after she was married in 1875, Pauline Myer travelled from her home in San Francisco to join her husband in New Mexico. He had gone on ahead so that he might investigate the country. He wrot, her that it was a rough place, and so, she says, she found it. But her husband had good prospects in the wool business there, and she was eager to see a new country. She took the train from San Francisco to…
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
· 1937-04-05
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Ostic, Mrs. Bella, Smith, Janet
not Smith 1216 at Central Avenue louquorquo, How ::exioo 1.)t. Tf• 14 •.1 441;:17 Interviews on .uceee APR r ,anlove Modes bout 500 wor,'.s. 7t1S Interview with ,,rs. al1s. sties 104 Alson Avenue, Albuquerque,"I've been thinking since you were here the War dny about 'ens Joies, and 1 thaur',ht or a few little thinrs that don't arount to -103h but I thought I'd tell you a7yhow. I found a lam no sent to ne a long time a4o, too. ilye had it around so long it cot tore, Jut you can have it if you…
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
· 1937-04-05
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Hopewell, Mrs. A. S, Smith, Janet
Janet Smith 1216 east Central Avenue Albuquerque. lkow Mexico INT&AVISM8 ON NE leVt ato APR5 1937 Interviews on Amens Manlove Rhodos About 730 words. Interview with Mrs. A S. Hopewell and Mr. and Lam. Robert Hopewell, of 616 Niet Ospoder Avenue, Albuquerques "I'm sorry I never knew t;usefie Rhodes," Mrs. Hopewell told me. 'TID did work on my husband's ranch, the John Cress Ranch near Palmas. That was before I was married...I suppose it must have been about 1895 and 1894 that he worked there. I…
United States, New Mexico, Albuquerque
· 12 pages
Recorded by: Heacock, Smith, Janet
Janet Smith, Field Torker. About 1400 words. PIONEER STORIES Interview with Mrs. William C. Heacock Mrs. Heacock laughed when I said I had heard that her hus- band had been a famous judge in the old days in Albuouerque. Notorious had been the word that first occurred to me but I had of -course rejected it. She didn't think that she could tell me stories about her husband's career so well because she had never naid much atten- tion to his business. She had been busy raising her family. She…
New Mexico, United States
· 1936-10-26
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Smithson, J. Vernon, Stanfield, Clyde
Vernln 26$-03-2 10A6/36 C14MOorfis NOV 2 1936 -1- TIA:203 TALv BY Clyde Stanfield There were -lore fami3lea on tht territory in 1'70/ h there is todey, but Vase families did not stay he throughouL the year. In the ecoxlr t)Ie:, wluld pic cotton unerr the east cupraclz. After cotton pick- ing time, however, they would return to their hamesteadt. In the winter the chef emrloymcnt of the ettlers was the securtng of wood and poets from the *braked'. 7Mod was very ess-nti-1 to withstand Vle severe…
New Mexico, United States, Lincoln County
· 1938-02-14
· 2 pages
Recorded by: [Rouark?], Charles, Totty, Frances E.
111,,nyonr: r7r) 7.":o rienn rle --7,4( 1 'Isrly Drys in Tincoln Connty FE.B 1 4 193 T went to Lincoln County 't th oorly lays but woo not in the war .The fir t time 7 sn,17 rat 'arrett ,wo had an arruront.T had been tc thP nsnol routo whnn rotnrnod there wao a ootowirod un in thono dnyo we didnft wire un gotes .If I had to ro around Im would I.vve ha" to ridderfont miles around the fence and came bocl to tho gPte 6o get o r tho trail agoin.Iont tho rte down and left it down The neTt morning…
United States, New Mexico, Lincoln
· 1938-05-26
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Brent, Josh, Totty, Frances E.
Frances E.Totty Josh trent 50 7' Early Days in( Lincoln County May26,1938 words Jim 1 193s My grandfather Sotorona Baca and his wife were born in Barcelona,Spain and was considered quite wealthy for those days They came to America and settled at Et Paso,Texas where they lived for some ti,ae but the old Spatish Legend was going the rounds at the time that they a settled at El laso and it wasnit long until he decided that there was something to the story 0 and invested $10,000.00 in the…
United States, New Mexico
· 1939-05-05
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Hamlett, Bill, Totty, Frances E.
-Frances E.Totty Bill Hamlett 61_ app Indian Vellege words rr.- Mpy5,I938 MAY 9 isia 8 Some time ago I went out Ed Aults place,three miles up the river on thi right from Gila about thirty miles from Silve City to take several plows. hen I arrived a t the place I received one of the biggest surprises in my life.Ed had a fellow breaking up a place for a garden, and that place was nothing more thfn en old Indian Village. I have quiet a collection of Indian MetfAts? and one and the only one yard…
New York, United States, New York City
· 2 pages
Recorded by: Byrd, Frank
A.NK BYRD "HOMEY, THE VEGETABLE AND FRUIT MAN' The 135 Street block between Lenox and Seventh Avenues is one of the most thickly populated in Harlem. Of a late Summer afternoon the place is a squalidly -picturesque sight with hosewives leaning out of the windows, raged, unkempt little dusky skinned urchins playing carelessly in the street, vegetable men hawking their wares, "corn (liquor) salesmen walking up and dawn the block with their kitchen manufactured intoxicating beverages weight- ing…
New York City, United States, New York
· 1938-09-22
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Byrd, Frank, Reynolds, "slick"
Al.<44 4(ti --‘tWie?n<1 ./0• Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FORM Circumstances of Interview STATE Hew York NAIVE OF WORKER. Frank Byrd ADDRESS 224 W. 135th. St. NYC DATE September 22, 193e SUBJECT HAHLEY1 HOUSE -HEFT PARTIES 1. Date and time of interview 2. Place of interview FOLKLORE NEW YORK The Symphony Club --a meeting place of musicians, actors, dancers and other vaudeville performers -131st. St. and 7th. Av( 3. Name and address of informant Related to the reporter by "Slick"…
New York, United States, New York City
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Byrd, Frank, Leonard, Marvin
'2"( 4- ,cd a Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLKLORE NEW. YORK FORM A Circumstances of Interview STATE New York NAM OF WORKER Frank Byrd ADDRESS 224 West 135th Street, N.Y.C. DATE March 28, 1939 SUBJECT Pullman Porters' Dining Car Workers' Stories 1. Date and tin:. of interview March 27, 11:30 A.M. 2. Place of interview 46 West 136th Street, N.Y.C. 3. Name and address of informant Marvin Leonard 46 Meat 136th Stbeet New York City 4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you…
New York, United States, New York City
· 1939-03-06
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Byrd, Frank
Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FORM k Circumstances of Interview STATE New York NAME OF WORKER Frank Byrd ADDRESS 110 King Street, N.Y.C. DATE March 6, 1939 SUBJECT Pullman Porters Dining Car Workers Stories. 1. Date and time c interview March 6th, 1 P.M. 2. Place of interview 200 West 135th Street 3. Name and address of informant Leroy Spriggs, 200 West 135th Street New York City 4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch with informant. Met him in pool room. 5.…
New York, New York City, United States
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Byrd, Frank
Frank Byrd New York ON THE PENNSY I CHEF WATKINS' ALIBI kee-yisui Ca"- fo.tit-ce. Chef Watkins was a short, fat squatty little Negro with the meanest disposition of any cook I've ever known; and I've known some mean ones in my time. He had a jet black skin, full pork -chop lips and a belly on him that shook like tapioca when he was working the lunch-hour rush. He could cuss like a top -sergeant and seemed to take a fiendish delight in giving the boys hell. When we had taken about as much of…