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thewayneI run interlibrary loan (ILL) for our university branch campus library. Effectively we're a community college, but we don't yet have that in our name. Anyway, I had a lot of books to process today - two incoming, no big deal, but five outbound and one was a monster two volume set!
And that two volume set is the cool part.
The title of the book is The History of New Mexico. Okay, that's not terribly notable or interesting, in and of itself. There's lots of books on the history of New Mexico. We have quite the storied history going back over 400 years to Nuevo Mexico. As I said, this is a two-volume set. Hardbound. Over a thousand pages. One of the things that I do when I mail out books is I flip through them to see if there's any apparent damage: loose pages, writing, highlighting, etc. And I note them on a sort of transaction invoice that goes with the book so the receiving library knows if it comes back from their patron the worse for wear.
Well, flipping through this, the first thing that's apparent is that it's a old photocopy of a very old book. Like, the copy was made back in the '60s or '70s perhaps, though this printing is somewhat newer. Usually the Library of Congress code on the spine of the book lists the date, but that's a newer thing and this one doesn't have that. So I look up the publish date.
1907.
For those of you without instant recall, or knowledge of when states were added to the Union, that is FIVE YEARS BEFORE NEW MEXICO BECAME A STATE! (Arizona and New Mexico both became states in 1912, NM on Jan. 6, AZ on Valentine's Day, then Alaska and Hawaii rounded out the 50.)
Now, in my book (honestly, no pun intended), that's pretty cool. I can't wait to look at it a bit more closely when it comes back.
Discoveries like this is why I think ILL is the coolest job in the library.
And that two volume set is the cool part.
The title of the book is The History of New Mexico. Okay, that's not terribly notable or interesting, in and of itself. There's lots of books on the history of New Mexico. We have quite the storied history going back over 400 years to Nuevo Mexico. As I said, this is a two-volume set. Hardbound. Over a thousand pages. One of the things that I do when I mail out books is I flip through them to see if there's any apparent damage: loose pages, writing, highlighting, etc. And I note them on a sort of transaction invoice that goes with the book so the receiving library knows if it comes back from their patron the worse for wear.
Well, flipping through this, the first thing that's apparent is that it's a old photocopy of a very old book. Like, the copy was made back in the '60s or '70s perhaps, though this printing is somewhat newer. Usually the Library of Congress code on the spine of the book lists the date, but that's a newer thing and this one doesn't have that. So I look up the publish date.
1907.
For those of you without instant recall, or knowledge of when states were added to the Union, that is FIVE YEARS BEFORE NEW MEXICO BECAME A STATE! (Arizona and New Mexico both became states in 1912, NM on Jan. 6, AZ on Valentine's Day, then Alaska and Hawaii rounded out the 50.)
Now, in my book (honestly, no pun intended), that's pretty cool. I can't wait to look at it a bit more closely when it comes back.
Discoveries like this is why I think ILL is the coolest job in the library.
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Date: 2024-09-03 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-03 09:30 pm (UTC)I'm trying to find a digital copy as it's clearly well-past copyright protection. Gutenberg doesn't have it, I'll be checking our databases for a download.
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Date: 2024-09-04 06:03 am (UTC)Volume 1: https://archive.org/details/historynewmexic00cogoog/page/n5/mode/2up
Volume 2: https://archive.org/details/historynewmexic01cogoog/page/n5/mode/2up
History of New Mexico : its resources and people
by George B. Anderson , Pacific States Publishing Co
Publication date 1907
Topics New Mexico -- History, New Mexico -- History, New Mexico
Publisher Los Angeles : Pacific States Pub. Co.
Collection americana
Book from the collections of University of California
Language English
Item Size 292.8M
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
2 volumes (xxvii, 1047 pages) : 26 cm
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Date: 2024-09-04 06:04 am (UTC)That is indeed the guy! Why I didn't check archive.org, I do not know. Thanks very much!
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Date: 2024-09-03 11:17 pm (UTC)Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2024-09-04 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-04 12:31 pm (UTC)P.107, describing some "knights of the road" who politely came for breakfast prior to an engagement:
Each had four pistols in his belt and a repeating rifle strapped to his side. They were courteous in their behavior and very polite to the waiters. When they had paid for their breakfast they rode leisurely up the mountain side. About half way down the New Mexican side of the mountain, where the canyon is very narrow and was then heavily wooded on both sides, they stopped and waited for the coach. When it appeared, lumbering up the road, they stepped suddenly from their ambush, one on each side of the horses' heads, and commanded the driver and the four passengers to hold up their hands. While one robber stood guard the other secured the valuables in the treasure box and from the persons of the travelers and at once disappeared. The men who planned and executed this robbery were "Chuckle-luck" and "Magpie." They were killed soon after this occurrence by a member of their own gang named Stuard, who was tempted to the act probably by the reward of one thousand dollars which had been offered. Stuard loaded the dead robbers into a wagon and took them to Cimarron, where he turned them over to the authorities and received the reward.
Across the years, I salute Chuckle-luck and Magpie. (I am also now greatly wondering if Chuckle-LUCK was a polite version of his name. And curious of where and when "chucklefuck" came into use.... Ah, questions for a random Wed. morning....)
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Date: 2024-09-04 04:37 pm (UTC)That's pretty cool! Yeah, double-crossing was probably pretty common back then, and a thousand bucks in those days was a LOT of money!
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Date: 2024-09-04 04:36 pm (UTC)And it was sent to another library within NM!