Anthony, Texas sources
See what's already been written in Borderlands. I'm using "Anthony"
by itself, there aren't many to go through, and you can see most of them
are not about Anthony, Texas but the last one mentions La Tuna in the
Anthony area. So that's a possible point to put into your article,
assuming it IS in Anthony, Texas itself -- that I'm not sure of.
Putting in "Anthony Texas" into the search box, we see four hits. 1
and 4 are pertinent.
http://www.tsha.uTexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/AA/hga5.html
so this is your first real source.
This is considered a scholarly journal
online, so it could be either a database or a scholarly journal, in your
list of citations.
Article number 1, on the railroads,
http://www.tsha.uTexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/RR/eqrce.html,
shows us that Anthony used to be called "La Tuna" and it gives us dates when
the railroad came through. Dates are helpful to research local newspaper
articles.
Library
Catalogs
Do a keyword search in our catalog on
"Anthony Texas", and you see there are no hits with the words next
to each other, so I put in an
"and"
between them. Your search terms show up in red, and they don't have to do with the
town.
So we'll try it as a subject: "Anthony Texas" and it says
it's not there.
But I click on the "Find at UTEP" button at the top, and in
the list, we see that the subject is "Anthony, Tex" and it's
an archeological survey. Not very useful for you, I wouldn't
think, BUT now you know that the subject in library catalogs is 'Anthony
Tex" so
we'll use that search in the public library catalog and in NMSU's
catalog.
You'll see the
public
library
has more sources, and this is because they have the
Southwest Reference collection AND the Border Heritage Center. These
look like technical docs, but there's one that has some possibilities:
Town of Anthony, Texas, a growing community; accomplishments.
it's under Anthony, Tex -- environmental conditions. it's only 11 pages
long, but it may have good historical accomplishments or clues to lead you
to other places. It's worth a trip down to the main library to
see!
In
NMSU's catalog
, we see they have
five years (recent ones) of the Rio Grande Gazette on microfilm which
covers Anthony TX and NM. that's good to keep in the back of your head,
but since it's not historical information, maybe no need to rush over to
Las Cruces now. it is for 1985-1990. but there may not be so many
articles written in it, so it may be possible to browse and see if
there's anything of interest, but I'd try the Password articles and
books on reserve first -- see the next two steps!
For this you go into the NW library and
checking through the indexes in the back of the books. Ask to go back
there, they'll let you, and browse the two shelves because there is a book
on Las Cruces there (so maybe they'll be something on Anthony in the index?)
or there may be another one I'm not thinking of. Be sure to search all the
"standards" listed on the detective page under reserves.
Password (Journal of EP Historical Society)
and its Archives
searching the online index to
Password
, shows three possibilities:
Anthony, New Mexico: 42, 14
Anthony, New Mexico: iii, 108
Anthony, Texas/New Mexico: xxxvi, 136
Of course the last one looks the best,
but I'd check the other two while you're in the NW Library. They are to the
left of the Reference desk. the first number is the volume, the second, the
page. So in the last entry, you'd look for volume 36 and page 136. This
journal is also at the downtown library and at UTEP.
Helen found this very useful chapter in an
online book by searching for "Anthony New Mexico" in quotations.
This searches this as a phrase, eliminating most of the references to
authors who have Anthony as part of their name. I've also searched on
"la tuna Texas"
Full text:
Snippets online:
Call and ask the staff before you go down (915-543-5440), if there is an entry
in their vertical file. This is a collection of photocopied articles on a person or topic. YIn addition, check the newspaper card catalog to see other articles available. You would then have to search for the article in the microfilms, ask at the reference desk around the corner from the readers for help.
In a search on the Special
Collections webpage, we see that there are architectural records for
buildings built in Anthony by
O. H. Thorman
.
You probably don't need to look at the drawings, BUT it is a clue on another
name to search. and there's a date.
- Kimbrough, R. B. 1949 Residence (A); Commercial
Building Anthony, NM;
- Grade School Building Anthony, NM
SO,
there are four places in
Password
where Mr. Thorman is mentioned, and one or more of them may
mention his connection with Anthony.
- Thorman, O.H.: xviii, 132, 181
- Thorman, Otto H. (architect): xxvi, 91; xxvii, 32;
xxx, 116-119 pam; xxxv, 111-112; xxxvi, 73-79, passim
- Thorman, Otto H. (architect): 44, 38,39
- Thorman, Otto: 46, 197, 200
In these articles, you may find dates
that he built certain buildings, or events happened, and then you can do
newspaper searches.
When
you have dates, at least month/year of events in Anthony's history, then
you can do searches on microfilm at UTEP or the downtown public library. After
your searches on reserves and in password, you may have those!! I didn't
see anything in the New York Times historical index (not surprising at all!)
Helen found a good number of
American Life
Histories
people from 1936-1940 talking about Anthony, NM
and La Tuna. Search by keyword "marie carter" to see them all.
She was the interviewer for this part of New Mexico.
Google
You must be discriminating doing Internet
searches. Don't take everything you find as fact, but
consider the source's credibility.
Southern New Mexico magazine
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