Date
1985 Bulk date(s)
January 1993 Date(s) of record-keeping activity
March 2017 Date(s) of record-keeping activity
Extent
1 large document box, 3 document boxes, 2 tape boxes
Administrative/Biographical History
Nora Pickens was an intern at the Museum of International Folk Art in 1985, and served as co-curator of the exhibition New Mexico Country Quilts in 1987-88.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of information about the origins of the project, press clippings (including some collected in a scrapbook), survey forms, correspondence, slides, recorded interviews, notes, and some transcripts of interviews.
Contents List
Box 1, Folder 1: Survey press release and clippings,
Box 1, Folder 2: Index cards and other small pieces of paper with notes
Box 1, Folder 3: Index cards with notes
Box 1, Quilter Folders: 100 folders follow. They are not numbered, but are filed in alphabetical order by name. Each represents one quilter surveyed. Each folders includes survey form except as noted. A few have additional correspondence, an interview transcript, or other supplemental material. The quilters are:
1. Alldredge , Emma Lee Drinkard, 1909-
2. Almond, Merle, 1917-
3. Anderson, Artie Cross, 1908-
4. Anonymous (2) (includes flyer for Farmington Museum)
5. Armstrong, Doris I Rhyne, 1928- (includes interview notes)
6. Bailey, Tex M, 1912-
7. Baumgardner, Margrette Foutz, 1919- (includes tape logs, notes, correspondence, consent form, transcript)
8. Bertram, Jean, 1963- (see Bertram, Lois)
9. Bertram, Lois, 1942- (includes notes for interviews with Lois Bertram, Jean Bertram, and Dorothy Short)
10. Bloomfield, Elsie Dallas, 1912-1985 and Dallas, Emaline Strader, 1833-1919 (includes tape log, notes, correspondence, obituary of Elsie Dallas Bloomfield)
11. Bowman, Mary Ann, 1869-1938
12. Bowman, Pearl Huff, 1888-
13. Brooks, Rose Jones Gilford, 1916- (includes tape log, consent form, correspondence)
14. Brown, Ethel Lorea Holloway, 1907- (includes interview notes, correspondence)
15. Buchanan, Wanita Riley, 1911- and Anonymous (includes correspondence)
16. Bynum, Maggie, 1906-
17. Chavez, Tomasita, 1905-
18. Clear, Ruby Goggin Hall, 1907- (includes interview notes)
19. Collins, Della Jamison, 1903-
20. Corman, Marion Gerrells, 1931-
21. Cox, May Lou Kirschke, 1918-
22. Crawford, Betty Carr, 1932- (includes interview notes)
23. Crawford, Ruthell Ross, 1911-
24. Daugherty, Neva Streiff, 1915-
25. Denny, Martha Logsdon, 1905- (includes tape log, consent form, notes, McKinley County Quilter’s Guild Newsletter June 1985)
26. Didde, Yvonne Bunnell, 1951- (includes tape log, consent form, notes, interview transcript)
27. Dougherty, Margaret Ricketts, 1907-
28. Douglas, E Revay Breshears, 1915- and Bushears, Harriet Eudona (includes tape log, consent form, interview notes)
29. Durham, Elsie Moody, 1906-
30. Durham, Ruby, 1905-
31. Eash, Eileen Stichter, 1944-
32. Easter, Maggie Bow, 1912- (includes tape log, consent form)
33. Ferguson, Geneva Sturdivent, 1909- (includes notes)
34. Ferguson, Wanda Wolf, 1914-
35. Foster, Leda Whitehorn, 1904-
36. Garrison, Mary C Hobbs, 1920- (includes correspondence)
37. Gruber, Mary Elizabeth Milburn, (dates unknown) (found in Lois Bertram folder)
38. Halsell, Jessie Darnell, 1913- (includes tape log, notes, consent form, transcript, correspondence)
39. Harper, Mary, 1921-
40. Havenhill, Quirl Maberry Thompson, 1896- (includes newspaper clipping, consent form, tape log)
41. Hayes, Nancy B, d.1936 (includes information about a quilt, copy of survey form for Mary Harper)
42. Head, Mable Otis, 1908- (includes newspaper article, correspondence, transcript, notes, tape log, consent form, transparency)
43. Heimann, Marie, 1920-
44. Hoffman, June
45. Hogsett, Clara Woods, 1911- (includes tape log, consent form, notes)
46. Hutchinson, Elizabeth Campbell, 1924-
47. Jouett, Addie Bernice Stevens, 1907- (includes tape log, notes, consent form, transcript, correspondence)
48. Kane, Virginia (includes correspondence, transparency, notes, copy of newspaper article)
49. Keynert, Jane
50. Kirby, Laura Bowman, 1921-
51. Lasansky, Jeannette – (information about the interviewer, notes on quilting groups, no survey)
52. Lyles, Rubye, 1928-
53. Mackey, Vera, 1920-
54. McCracken, Marie, 1920-
55. McDonnell, Mildred Whaley, 1911- (includes tape log, notes, transcript)
56. Maness, Beatrice Hood, 1916-
57. Martin, Elsie G, 1920-
58. Martin, Verna B, 1932-
59. Martinez, Altagracia, 1908-
60. Martinez, Escolastica, 1908-
61. Martinez, Ida, 1925- (includes tape log, consent form)
62. Medling, Vera Marida Reynolds, 1915- (includes notes, tape log, consent form, transcript)
63. Mitchell, Anna Mae McCracken, 1912-
64. Moore, Dorothy, 1915-
65. Morgan, Irene Heim, 1928- (includes notes)
66. Moss, Marie Raindl, 1915-
67. Neal, Juanita Wilson, 1909- (includes notes)
68. Onstott, Juanita Miller, 1909- (includes poem)
69. Paul, Edna Gooch, 1905-
70. Phillips, Faye Ross, 1906-
71. Pickens, Nora, 1938- (information about researcher, no survey)
72. Pistole, Lena Howard, 1907-
73. Putney, Aletha Woodward, 1926- (includes notes)
74. Raines, Vera Mentie Jackson, 1908- (includes notes)
75. Randlemon, Nellie Austin Morrison, 1903- (includes consent form, tape log, transcript, notes)
76. Reynolds, Maurine McDaniel, 1911-
77. Richards, Bea Casey, 1916-
78. Ross, Sidney Ruth Latham, 1919-
79. Russom, Beva (notes only, no survey form)
80. Sage, Loyce Wood, 1919- (includes correspondence with photocopied pictures, tape logs, notes, consent form, transcript)
81. Sanchez, Trenida Gonzales, 1918- (includes tape log, consent form, notes)
82. Scoggins, Katie, 1907- (includes notes)
83. Short, Dorothy, 1915- (found in Lois Bertram folder; notes for Short interview on same page as for Lois Bertram, in Lois Bertram folder)
84. Simmons, Wyoma Mackey, 1918- (includes correspondence with photocopy of picture)
85. Simer, Molly Elizabeth Hamilton, 1907- (includes notes)
86. Simpson, Evelyn Miller, 1918-
87. Simpson, Ruth De Spain, 1910- (includes notes)
88. Smith, Alta Hanna Roberson, 1903-
89. Stichter, Bertha Yoder, 1907-
90. Sweet, Juanita, 1899-
91. Thompson, Georgia Smith, 1912-
92. Upton, Lyla, 1917-
93. Wall, Irene Walraum, 1914-
94. Wasson, Mary Elizabeth Hanna Carr, 1901- (includes notes, correspondence)
95. Williams, Isabel, 1918-
96. Willard, Fay Burnett Harbert, 1912-
97. Wilson, Eva Wallace, 1908-
98. Wolfe, Golda
99. Wooten, Leatrice Sisk, 1911-
100. Zopf, Dorothy, 1928- (includes correspondence, consent form, tape log, transcript, notes)
Box 1, No Folder: Scrapbook with newspaper clippings related to quilt activities at the Museum, including survey, Homage to Amanda, and the later show at the Governor’s Gallery.
Box 2: Slides 1-360
Box 3: Slides 361-780
Box 4: Slides 781-1100; five unnumbered folders with negatives of images of quilters’ family photos (rephotographed by Tom McCarthy); 6 Zopf survey forms from Taos County with photographs; polaroid photos of quilts; 7 envelopes of transparencies; large scale negatives.
Box 5: 23 original cassette tapes of interviews
Box 6: 23 duplicate, copied cassette tapes of interviews
Conditions Governing Access
Contact the Bartlett Library and Archives at the Museum of International Folk Art (505-476-1210) for further information.
Citation
Museum of International Folk Art Archives (Traditional Quilt Makers in New Mexico Survey, AR.00027)
LOC Terms
Quilts--United States [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh88002100], Quiltmakers--United States [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh86001869]
Geographic names
New Mexico
Related people
Nora Pickens (was used in);
Museum of International Folk Art (owns);
Jeannette Lasansky (was used in)