New Mexicans in Cameo and Camera: New Deal Documentation of Twentieth-Century Lives

Albuauerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexco Press - A Zia Book, 1985. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 8 1/4" x 10 1/4. Ezzell, Emmy - Design. 228 Pages Indexed. Brown cloth with white quarter-spine. One little tiny blemish in the center of the front board. Otherwise a beautiful, As New book with crisp, flawless interior text pages. In the late 1930's various New Deal agencies employed hundreds of writers,, artists, and photographers to chronicle American life. This book is a collection of the writings and pictures, most previously unpublished, produced under New Deal auspices to document the lives of New Mexicans. In addition to their historic value, these materials provide vivid, often amusing glimpses of the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people all over the state-homesteaders, villagers, miners, ranchers, merchants, Indians, and cowboys. Contents in Five Chapters: Rebozo and Resolano Old Hispanic Lifeways, Miners Merchants homesteaders and Indians Western New Mexicans, Commerce and Cowboys The Northeast, The Literary Tularosa, and Southeastern Scouts Ranchers and Homesteaders. Also include Biographical Sketches of Project Workers, Notes, Glossary of New Deal Projects, Bibliography. and Maps.