New Mexico Exhibit Hall

Arthur Rothstein New Mexico Photograph

Arthur Rothstein New Mexico Photograph   Arthur Rothstein made some of the most significant documentary photographs ever taken of rural and small-town America. These images were created during his years traveling throughout the nation on assignment for the US Farm Security Administration, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s

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Roster of Early Jewish New Mexico Officeholders

U.S. House of Representatives   Charles Clever (1830-1874), served, 1867-1869, election overturned by U.S. House, 1869. Governor, Acoma Pueblo   Solomon Bibo (1853-1934), 1885-ca. 1889. Mayors   Henry Jaffa (1846-1901), Albuquerque, 1885-1886.   Michel (Mike) Mandell (1857-1950), Albuquerque, 1890-1891.   Nathan Jaffa, Roswell, 1891-1892 and Santa Fe,

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Abraham Lincoln Zinn: Jewish State Senator, Floor Leader, and Supreme Court Chief Justice, New Mexico

Abraham Lincoln Zinn Values Code: I – E    Abraham Lincoln Zinn (1893-1957) was an attorney and rancher who won election to the New Mexico senate in 1920. In 1923 he became Democratic floor leader and later served as Gallup city attorney. In 1932 he won election

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Six New Mexico Jews Held Statewide Offices

Six New Mexico Jews Held Statewide Office   Governors   Nathan Jaffa, acting governor for over 250 days in 1907-1911 while serving as Territorial Secretary. Arthur Seligman, 1931-1933 (died in office). Territorial Secretary   Nathan Jaffa, 1907-1912.   State Attorney General   Harry Bowman (1880-1962), 1921-1923.  

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Early New Mexico’s “Five Jewish Families”

Early New Mexico’s “Five Jewish Families” Values Codes I – E – L   Mexico prohibited Jews from settling while it was under Spanish rule and after it became an independent state. In 1846, when the U.S. took control of the area it called New Mexico, entrepreneurial

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Emanuel Rosenwald: Jewish Pioneer Businessman & Honored Citizen, Las Vegas, New Mexico

Emanuel Rosenwald Values Codes I – E – L – P   Emanuel Rosenwald was born in Dittenhofen, Germany in 1838. He had six brothers including, Joseph, the eldest, who shared ownership of the Rosenwald firms with him. Along the way … In 1853, Emanuel Rosenwald came

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