Coming up this month we will be hosting a very interesting talk and exhibit by local historian Joseph Longo about a force of nature in El Paso: Anita Blair. Anita was the first El Paso woman elected to the Texas Legislature and the first blind woman to be elected to office in the United States. Though […]
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Curator’s Corner
One of the items accessioned into the archival collections last month was this special El Paso Times newspaper supplement from February 1968 celebrating the International Rodeo & Southwestern Livestock Show. Its pages are chock-full of articles & advertisements pertaining to the rodeo & all of its accompanying events. One of the main attractions was […]
Curator’s Corner
The El Paso County Historical Society recently acquired a collection of New Mexico high school & university yearbooks. Included in the acquisition were some high school yearbooks of Mesilla resident, Verna Lowry, who was a member of the Las Cruces Union High School Class of 1942. Hidden gems are often to be found amongst archive materials, […]
Password Index
The El Paso County Historical Society has been publishing Password, a quarterly publication, since 1956. Password contains articles about El Paso and the surrounding area. Below is an index to those articles. -A- -B- -C- -D- -E- -F- -G- -H- -I- -J- -K- -L- -M- -N- -O- -P- -Q- -R- -S- -T- -U- -V- -W- […]
El Paso Pioneer: Dr. Edward Alexander
The Pioneer Association of El Paso was formed in 1904 by men who had come to the city before 1900. Among its ranks were builders, merchants, traders, lawyers, farmers, miners and others who came west to make a new life or find their fortune. Some of the records of the Pioneer Association are housed at […]
Only in El Paso: Scenic Drive
Several months ago, local filmmaker Jesus Nunez interviewed the El Paso County Historical Society’s very own Robert Diaz about the wonder and importance of Scenic Drive. Watch here! Only in El Paso: Scenic Drive
Password XLIV, 1999
Password Volume XLIV, Numbers 1-4 from 1999 Volume XLIV, No. 1, Spring 1999 El Paso’s Paramount-Publix Theatre, A Brief Historical Overview by John Martin West The Camino Real at the Pass: The Economy and Political Structure of the Paso Del Norte Area in the Eighteenth Century by Dr. Rick Hendricks And All Through the House by […]
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