National Hispanic Cultural Center

United States New Mexico  Archives and LibrariesNational Hispanic Cultural Center

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 * National Hispanic Cultural Center
 * 1701 4th Street SW
 * Albuquerque, NM 87102

Directions: From I-25, exit Avenida César Chávez, follow west over railroad tracks. You can enter the campus on 4th Street or 8th Street.

From Downtown, follow 4th Street south to Avenida César Chávez. Parking accessible from 4th Street or follow 8th Street south directly to NHCC

Telephone: (505) 246-2261 or (505) 724-4771 Fax: 505) 246-2613

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 * National Hispanic Cultural Center Home: Libraries; Library Services; Hours and Maps; Articles; Ebooks; Databases; Research Help; Library Services; Search for books, journals, and more.
 * - List he History and Literary Arts Program (HLA) is charged with documenting and preserving Hispanic history, culture and literature. The HLA permanent collections encompasses over 14,000 books, full text electronic databases, 2,000 rolls of microfilm, hundreds of video and audiotapes, as well as a manuscript and photo archives - all concentrated on the history of Hispanics worldwide with a focus on the U.S. Southwest.
 * Research Projects 4 Research Projects at present
 * Publications
 * Permanent Collections
 * Research Archives The Archives was designed as a climate-controlled repository to permanently house rare books, photographs, maps, and manuscript collections. It is also used as a processing area and a conservation and book repair site.
 * Research Library The library now holds 12,500 titles which are 95% cataloged to Library of Congress standards. The concentration is on the history and culture of the Hispano world from the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, Central America, Latin America to Spain, Portugal and other points touched by the Spanish empire.

Collection Description

 * Collection Overview National Hispanic Cultural Center acquires, preserves, and makes available for research; records of organizations, personal papers, and other unpublished materials which document the cultural heritage and history of New Mexico and the Southwestern experience..

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service &amp; pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees.
 * New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe, Roman Catholic church records, censuses, district court, land grants, wills, diaries, family papers, prisons, family and local histories, newspapers. NM's best genealogy repository because of its original territorial, state, and county records.
 * New Mexico State Library, Santa Fe, history, biography, ethnic studies, newspapers, government documents, maps, periodicals, and genealogies. Largest book collection in New Mexico.

Similar Collections


 * UNM Center for Southwest Research, Albuquerque, Includes manuscripts of Southwestern U.S. families, organizations, and businesses, 40,000 books and periodicals, and 120,000 images since the 1850s.
 * Hispanic Genealogical Research Center (HGRC) of New Mexico, Albuquerque, maintains the Great New Mexico Pedigree Database (GNMPD)  for Hispanic ancestors of New Mexico.
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 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, Mormon records.

Neighboring Collections


 * Bernalillo County Clerk marriages (restricted for 50 years), death certificates, wills, deeds, mortgages, DD Form 214 soldier discharges.
 * Bernalillo County Probate Court recent wills.
 * Bernalillo County Recorder deeds and land records.
 * Bernalillo County Coroner selected death records.
 * Second Judicial District Court of New Mexico, Albuquerque, civil, and criminal court records.
 * ABC Library Genealogy Center, Albuquerque, genealogy and Southwestern history, including New Mexico vital records, history, biography, periodicals, and family folders.
 * ABC Library Special Collections Albuquerque and New Mexico history and culture. In-house use only.
 * New Mexico Genealogical Society, Albuquerque, manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, histories, directories, maps, photos.
 * Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, created in 1850, it once included Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, but has been sub-divided and is now limited to only part of northern New Mexico.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: Cibola, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Torrance, and Valencia.
 * New Mexico Dept. of Health Vital Records, Santa Fe, adoption, births (restricted for 100 years), and deaths (restricted for 50 years).
 * Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, Santa Fe, colonial and territorial manuscripts, papers, newspapers, rare books, maps, and photos—rivals in size the State Records Center and Archives.
 * NMSU Rio Grande Historical Collections, Las Cruces, early colonial Spanish records since 1598 for families along the Camino Real (Spanish mission road) from southern Colorado to Mexico City.
 * Historical Society of New Mexico, Santa Fe, offers links to organizations, museums and other historic points of interest in New Mexico.
 * Repositories in surrounding states (or nations): AZ, CO, OK, TX, UT, and Mexico.
 * Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA, premier Western Americana, and Latin Americana collections, including Native Americans, Spanish encounter and colonial settlement, exploration of western America, maps and atlases, the Mexican War, westward migration, the Gold Rush, mining, land surveys, ethnic groups.
 * National Archives Rocky Mountain Region (Denver) Includes old New Mexico court records and naturalizations, federal and Indian censuses, passenger arrival lists, World War I draft registrations.
 * Archivo General de la Nación (AGN), Mexico City, church, civil, census, court, history, military, migration, land. Copies of colonial New Mexico records of were often sent to Mexico and Spain.