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Month: November 2021

MCMP Cuadernos

MCMP Cuadernos

The Manitos Cuaderno Series began in the summer of 2020 to gather stories about sickness and wellness from the Spanish Flu of 1918 to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. The word cuaderno comes from the Latin quaternus and means a set of folded sheets of paper that form a book, a notebook. Historically, leatherbound cuadernos have been used to record celestial movements of the sun, moon, and the stars as well as the accountings upon the ground, the movement of livestock, of waters, and of the…

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WW I Recruits ~ Taos County

WW I Recruits ~ Taos County

During the years immediately following World War I, Lansing Bloom was hired at the Museum of New Mexico charged with directing the Museum’s War History Service. In this capacity, he was responsible for compiling the biographical records and information about New Mexico’s 16,000 World War I veterans. Toward this end, Bloom conducted a survey of surviving WWI veterans of NM. Approximately seventy-percent of the surveys were returned and are housed today at the New Mexico State Archives in Santa Fe,…

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