Animas Museum Research Guide, Durango, La Plata Co, Colo

					 Animas Museum
			     La Plata County Historical Society, Inc.
				          PO Box 3384
				     3065 West 2nd Avenue
				      Durango, CO  81302
				        (970) 259-2402
				 Director: Robert L. McDaniel

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 					RESEARCH GUIDE

	The museum is located at 31st St. and West 2nd Ave. in north Durango, and is
	open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., May through October.  There
	is a large photograph collection, research library and archives.


In the library:

Published and unpublished books and other source material relating to the history and 
archaeology of the Durango area, including:

	Rocky Mountain boomtown : a history of Durango / by Duane A. Smith.

	Pioneers of the San Juan country.  4 vols., 1942.  Recently reprinted with index.

	History of southwestern La Plata county; Pioneers of southwest La Plata county.

				Materials do not circulate.


In the archives: 

Large collection of photographs; copies may be obtained for standard reproduction fees. 

Collection of maps, including Durango city engineer's map from 1910.

Family files, obituary files, clipping files.

Durango city directories:
	
	1911/1912, includes La Plata and Montezuma counties, Colorado, and San Juan county, 
			New Mexico.

	1932-1934, includes La Plata and San Juan counties, Colorado, and San Juan county, 
			New Mexico.
    
	1949, 1965, 1974, 1976, 1980.
	

Telephone directories: 1911; October, 1940; summer, 1940; July, 1941, 1976-present.

Durango High School "toltec": large and growing collection, including the 1927 Toltec which 
			lists the graduates from 1889 to 1927 by class and year.

Hood Mortuary index, 1880 to 1994.  Compiled by Hood Mortuary, it contains burial records of 
			other funeral homes which went out of business.

1880 census for Animas City (now part of Durango), compiled by Pat Nicholas.

Collection of old newspapers, not cataloged or indexed.

History of the Durango Masonic lodge, 1946, including names of members (raised and demitted), 
			officers, deceased members, etc.

Oral histories, manuscripts, video tapes, etc.