Grant, Blanche C. (Blanche Chloe), 1874-1948. Papers for The forty seventh star - New Mexico: Guide.

Houghton Library, Harvard College Library

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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: b
Call No.: MS Am 2381
Creator: Grant, Blanche C. (Blanche Chloe), 1874-1948.
Title: Papers for The forty seventh star - New Mexico,
Date(s): 1948.
Quantity: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Typescript, photographs, and other papers for an unpublished historical study on the state of New Mexico.

Processed by:

Bonnie B. Salt

Acquisition Information:

*49M-165 Gift of Rev. George E. Cary and Mrs. Ethel Grant Cary, 6 Church St., Bradford, MA; received: 1950 March 20. Ethel Cary was Blanche Grant's sister.

Historical Note

Blanch Chloe Grant (1874-1948) was born in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1874, daughter of Willard Webster Grant (Harvard A.B. 1869) and Mercy Ann Parsons Grant. She was a graduate of Vassar College (1896), and studied art at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy, and at The Art League in New York. She became an established magazine illustator and landscape painter in Wilmington, Delaware, and in 1920 moved to Taos, New Mexico and became an author and editor of books on Taos and other areas of the Southwest. Some of her many books were: Kit Carson's own story of his life, On hundred years ago in old Taos, Taos today and Taos Indians. She also painted Native Americans extensively until her death in June of 1948.

Scope and Content

Includes a corrected typescript of this unpublished history of New Mexico, a letter concerning her research, as well as visual materials she assembled for use in illustration of the text.

Container List

(1) Grant, Blanche C. (Blanche Chloe), 1874-1948. The forty seventh star - New Mexico : typescript with autograph annotations and corrections, Taos, New Mexico, 1948. 6 folders.
Includes biographical note, author's note, table of contents, and bibliography.

(2) Priestley, Herbert Ingram, 1875-1944. Letter to Blanche C. (Blanche Chloe) Grant, 1941. 1 folder.
From Bancroft Library concerning her research.

(3) Images of New Mexico and the Southwest. 2 folders.
Materials were assembled for the book project and include photographs, cabinet photographs, postcards, a stereograph, photographs of paintings, and printed images.

Images include the following subjects: Acoma Pueblo, La Belle Mining Camp, Bent's Fort Monument, Canyon de Chelly, Carlsbad Caverns, Gaspar Perez de Villagra, Chicken Itza - House of the Jaquars, cliff dwellings, De Vargas Day (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Dedication of Colorado Tunnel (LaBelle, New Mexico), Devil's Half near Gallup, Dick Rutledge, Isleta Indians, Kit Carson, Laguna, Matachinas, Navajo Reservation, Old Sharp Studio (Taos, New Mexico), Palace of the Governors (Sante Fe, New Mexico), Pay Train on the point of Dump Mountain, Picuris Pueblo, San Miguel Church (Sante Fe), San Francisco St. (Santa Fe), Santa Fe Fiesta, Taos Pueblo Indians, Tewa Indians of the San Juan Pueblo, and many others.

Photographers include: Brooks Studio, Dane Coolidge, O.T. Davis, W.Herbert Duntan, Paul Frazier, E. F. Frisbie, B. C. Grant, Gurnsey's Rocky Mountain Views, Bert Harwood, E.A. Leach, C. E. Lord, J. R. Willis, and Ben Wittick, among others.

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