Endowments
and Donations
Contents
Aida
Alva Gerdes Memorial Endowment
Donated
Collections & Materials
The
Donald C. Turpen Collection on the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
The John Alexander Williams
Columbian Quincentenary Papers
The Holland Collection
of World War II Posters
The
Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American & Iberian Posters
AIDA
ALVA GERDES MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT This fund was established
in memory of Aida Alva Gerdes, a long-time member of the Library’s
Ibero-American Cataloging Team and cherished friend of the
University community. While travelling with her family and
a group of UNM students in Ecuador in 1997, Aida Gerdes was
slain in a roadside robbery. Income from the fund supports
the acquisition of scholarly material in all areas of Latin
American studies. Contributions are welcomed in any amount and may
be made either directly to the UNMGL Office of Development & Public
Affairs or via the UNM Foundation. For further information,
contact Carolyn Mountain, Program Manager, Latin American & Iberian
Program, University Libraries, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
NM 87131 or at carolynm@unm.edu.
DONATED
COLLECTIONS The Library’s Latin American & Iberian
Program (LAIP) actively seeks the donation of monographs, periodicals,
historical and literary papers, and non-book media in all fields
of Latin American and Iberian studies. Donations of scholars’ libraries
are especially sought. In recent years, the acquisition of
private libraries and archives has enriched the collection
substantially. Recently donated collections include:
The Donald C. Turpen Collection on the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
The John Alexander Williams Columbian Quincentenary Papers
The Holland Collection of World War II Posters
The Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American & Iberian Posters
For further information, and copies of the Library’s
Donor Agreement Form and gift policies, please contact Carolyn
Mountain, Program manager, LAIP, University Libraries, University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131. email: carolynm@unm.edu
The
Donald C. Turpen Collection on the Mexican Revolution of
1910 In December, 1995 Donald Turpen, a 1959 graduate
of UNM, donated his personal collection of nearly 6,000
books and pamphlets dealing with the Mexican Revolution
to Zimmerman Library. Mr. Turpen began forming the library
during a residence in Mexico in 1965-66 and continued building
it during many subsequent visits to that country. The collection
focuses on the period 1910-1940 and is especially rich
in personal memoirs and narratives, biographies of prominent
military and political leaders, studies of constitutional
and juridical reform, government publications, military
accounts, histories of the Revolution on the state and
local levels, and the records and documents of political,
labor, and constitutional assemblies.
The
John Alexander Williams Columbian Quincentenary Papers During
1996-97, the Library was given an extensive collection
of materials relating to the 500th anniversary
of the Columbian voyages by John Alexander Williams. Williams
was a trenchant, first-hand observer of the event and its
aftermath, having first served as one of the chief planners
and organizers of the quincentennial program of the National
Endowment for the Humanities and subsequently (1986-88)
as Executive Director of the U.S. national quincentennial
commission. The scope of Williams’ papers is very
broad, encompassing documents and reports issued by official
and semi-official quicentennial organizations in the U.S.,
Italy, Spain, and other countries; comprehensive notes,
records, and publications relating to events sponsored
and funded by the NEH and companion agencies, materials
sent to Williams by a wide spectrum of individuals and
groups, and a complete set of the minutes of the U.S. Commission,
bearing Williams’ marginal notes and personal reflections.
Williams’ papers form one of the larger series within
the Library’s Columbian Quincentenary Manuscript
Collection.
The
Holland Collection of World War II Posters Donated
to the Library in 1997 by Jerome V. and Carol V. Holland,
the collection was acquired as a set from the Government
Printing Office by Jerome Holland in 1950 and contains
823 posters and newsmaps, virtually all in pristine condition,
issued by various U.S. federal and military agencies between
1941 and 1946. Among the artists and cartoonists represented
in the collection are Ben Shahn, Norman Rockwell, N.C.
Wyeth, Walt Disney, Al Capp, Hank Ketchum, Antonio Arias
Bernal, Jean Carlu, Edward McNight Kauffer, Herbert Bayer,
and Alexey Brodovitch. The collection includes a substantial
number of Spanish and Portuguese-language posters produced
for distribution in Latin America.
The
Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American & Iberian
PostersThe Library’s pictorial holdings were
strengthened considerably by the recent acquisition of
the International Archive of Latin American Political Posters.
The collection (renamed the Sam L. Slick Collection of
Latin American & Iberian Political Posters, after its originator
and longtime owner) contains some 12,000 posters produced
across Latin America and Spain between the late 1960s and
1998. The archive provides comprehensive visual documentation
of political, social, and cultural themes recurrent in
Spain, Latin America, and in U.S.-Latin American relations
during this period. Many of the posters are also striking
for their graphic and artistic elements. The Library has
received a grant from McCune Charitable Foundation to underwrite
basic preservation costs. Arrangement of the Slick Collection
and production of a Web-searchable database will begin
in Fall 2001, funded in part by a grant from UNM’s
Center for Regional Studies. Additional funding is being
sought to digitize selected images and to mount an exhibition
in 2003, accompanied by a published catalog.
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