Manuscripts
Three pioneer padres of Baja California
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Eusebio Francisco Kino letters
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, chiefly written in Spanish by Eusebio Francisco Kino (1644-1711) and addressed to Maria Guadalupe de Lencastre, duquesa de Aveiro (1630-1715) concerning Kino's experiences in exploring and establishing missions in Baja California (1683-85) and in Sonora (1686-87).
mssHM 9973-9998
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Baltasar de Mansilla letter to the Duchess de Aveiro y Arcos
Manuscripts
Father Baltasar de Mansilla writes to the Duchess de Aveiro, giving news of California and of Father Eusebio Kino.
mssHM 22489
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Baltasar de Mansilla letter to the Duchess de Aveiro y Arcos
Manuscripts
Father Baltasar de Mansilla writes to the Duchess de Aveiro, providing news on California and Father Eusebio Kino. In Spanish.
mssHM 22490
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Handwritten notes related to California rancheros, pioneers, and adobes
Visual Materials
The majority of the Ana Bégué de Packman collection consists of portraits of Southern California rancho families and their descendants, as well as photographs of the town of San Juan Capistrano and its environs, including Mission San Juan Capistrano and the adobe houses surrounding the mission. Also included are photographs, correspondence, maps, ephemera, and newspaper clippings related to Southern California ranchos and the Spanish-Mexican families who owned them, as well as Los Angeles during the late 1800s. Photographers include: Charles C. Pierce, Charles J. Prudhomme, Charles C. Puck, and Edward Vischer. A small number of the California rancho families are pictured in both professional and amateur portraits, with a focus on the Dominguez, Machado, Sepulveda, and Yorba families. Other portraits include those of Los Angeles mayors and pioneers, such as Matthew Keller, Cameron Erskine Thom, and Elijah H. Workman. Photographs of Mission San Juan Capistrano show the mission complex in ruins, with views of the church, courtyard, bell tower, and outside workspaces. The interior of the restored Serra Chapel are also shown, with an emphasis on the altarpiece and its statuary. Other missions that are shown in the collection are Missions Santa Barbara, San Antonio de Padua, and San Gabriel Arcangel. Another emphasized portion of the collection concerns adobe houses, specifically ones that are or had been located in the western and southern parts of San Juan Capistrano. Among these adobes are the Blas Aguilar Adobe, Casa de Los Rios, the Burruel Adobe, the Manuel Garcia Adobe, and the Domingo Yorba Adobe. Other Southern California adobes that are also included are the Yorba-Slaughter Adobe, the Dana Adobe, and the Workman-Temple Homestead. Oversized photographs show La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Angeles (Plaza Church) and the statue of Felipe de Neve in Los Angeles Plaza. An interesting photograph of Plaza Church shows Don Antonio F. Coronel surveying the church exterior. Another photograph relating to the Los Angeles area is one of the Beverly Hills Centennial Parade with Eugene W. Biscailuz, Leo Carrillo, and William Boyd on horseback. Of particular interest are two tintypes related to photographer Charles J. Prudhomme. The first is of his mother, Maria Merced Tapia de Prudhomme, and the other is of Prudhomme's daughter. The rest of the collection contains correspondence, maps, notes, ephemera, and negatives. Noteworthy items from these materials include: a manuscript letter written by Manuel Dominguez; postcards from Bruce Condé (Alfonso de Bourbon Conde) to Ana Bégué de Packman; death notices for Isaac Williams and Henry Mellus; a glass plate negative of Horton House in San Diego; a film negative of Juan Bandini and his daughter Ysidora; and an index book with the names of rancho families written in Packman's hand. Photographs with corresponding film negatives are: (12), (26), and (29).
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Derrotero del Viage...en descubriminento del la Costa Oriental de Californias hasta el Rio Colorado, en donde seacaba su estrecho...: handwritten manuscripts
Manuscripts
These manuscripts describe the route of the voyage of discovery along the east coast of lower California (Baja, Mexico) up to the Colorado River where the gulf ends taken by Konsag in June and July 1746. The voyage was ordered by Cristóbal de Escobar y Llamas, Jesuit Provincial of New Spain. Although the manuscripts have the same title, they are two different manuscripts. HM 1293 is 36 pages and includes a map of the area. HM 1294 is 42 pages and does NOT contain a map. They are in Spanish.
mssHM 1293-1294
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Photographs of the California Missions by William Henry Jackson
Visual Materials
A collection of 39 albumen photographs of 12 California Missions, taken by nineteenth-century photographer William Henry Jackson sometime between 1885 and 1890. All of the photographs are titled and signed, "W.H.J. & Co." One or more images of the following missions are included: San Antonio de Padua, San Carlos Borroméo de Carmel, San Diego de Alcalá, San Fernando Rey, San Francisco de Asís, San Gabriel Arcángel, San Juan Bautista, San Juan Capistrano, San Luis Rey, San Miguel Arcángel, Santa Barbara and Santa Ines. The photographs primarily show the missions' front façades or courtyards, both in ruins and with slight repair work. The California Missions were a favored subject for photographers at the turn of the nineteenth century. Jackson, like many of his contemporaries, capitalized on the romantic interest in the ruins, and took photographs to sell to tourists. While the photographs are primarily artistic works of the architecture alone, a few photographs have people in them. Of note is (11), taken at San Juan Bautista, where a photographer can be seen on the left with his large-format camera, setting up his own shot.
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