1888 Map of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, stations, Indian reservations, state boundaries, and the railroad network emphasizing the main line. The map includes railroad names and profiles in lower left of map.
This is part of the Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 Collection at the Library of Congress.
This is an announcement for a public meeting held in Santa Fe, NM on February 21, 1864. The public meeting, presided over by Territorial Governor Connelly, was in response to derogatory comments published in the Eastern US press about Brigadier General Carleton, Commandant of the Military Department of New Mexico. An interesting fact that was the meeting was held in both English and Spanish.
This photo is of a building at the University of New Mexico.This photo was taken by John Collier Jr. in 1943 and is part of the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection at the Library of Congress.
In 1941 to 1943, Collier worked as a photographer with the Farm Securities Administration and the Office of War Information under Roy Stryker and documented many areas around the eastern U.S and northern New Mexico.
This a photo of the capitol building as it looked in 1943. This was the capitol building until the new capitol building, The Roundhouse, was built in 1966.
This photo was taken by John Collier, Jr. as part of the Federal Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection at the Library of Congress.
This is the Map of Western Territories that President James K. Polk sent to Congress with his annual message in 1848. The map shows the New Mexico territory as the boundaries were established by various treaties, such as the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This map is part of the House of Representatives Collection from the Center for Legislative Archives, of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Congress created the Territory of New Mexico – which included present-day Arizona – on September 9, 1850 as part of the Compromise of 1850. On December 23, 1850 President Millard Fillmore nominated James S. Calhoun to be the new territory’s first Governor.
This cartoon by Clifford Berryman appeared in the Washington Post on May 24, 1911.
On June 20, 1910, Congress passed an act to authorize the people of the New Mexico and Arizona Territories to form constitutions and state governments, and provide for the admission of the states into the Union once those constitutions were approved by Congress. After the Territories held constitutional conventions and had their constitutions ratified by the people, each Territory submitted their new constitution to Congress. Arizona’s constitution, however, contained a provision for the recall of judges—a provision which was opposed by many members of Congress as well as by President William H. Taft.
The territorial government of New Mexico sent Joint Memorial #5 to Congress asking for admission of New Mexico as a State. It is signed by George H. Wallace, Secretary of the Territory of New Mexico.
This is the FIRST Presidential Election in which NM was a state. On February 12, 1913 the House and the Senate met in a joint session to count the votes from the 1912 presidential election. The major candidates in the election were unpopular incumbent President William Howard Taft (Republican Party), former President Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive “Bull Moose Party”) and New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson (Democratic Party). Wilson handily defeated Taft and Roosevelt winning 435 of the 531 available electoral votes. Wilson also won 42% of the popular vote, while his nearest challenger, Roosevelt, won just 27%. Eugene Debs, who had run on the Socialist Party ticket, won an impressive 6% of the popular vote but failed to receive a single electoral vote.
This is a 1908 photo of the Bernalillio County Courthouse in Albuquerque, NM. It was built in 1886 and was replaced with a new courthouse built in 1926.
This photo is part of the Detroit Publishing Company Collection at the Library of Congress.