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Manuscripts
Del Rei Nuestro Señor Libro nombrado contador...para...los Alamos
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
Note that in both official titles the numeral four in 1884 has been pasted over by the numeral five. Vignettes: Vista de Guaymas; Vista de Alamos. Sub map: El Puerto de Guaymas. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1884 by Chas. E. Herbert in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington D.C." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, meters. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Vignettes Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS note: 139324 Official Map of the State of Sonora Compliments of Capt. Fred C. Turner Mexico City 1899..
139324
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The collection consists of letters, documents, and one map (all in Spanish) which are papers assembled in 1794 for the Conde de Revilla Gigedo. It consists mostly of official correspondence (1765-72) between Gálvez and the successive viceroys of Mexico. They deal with the organization of the expeditions sent to San Diego and Monterey to occupy California, the efforts to enlarge the frontiers of New Spain and subdue the Indians in Sonora and Sinaloa, and the removal of the Jesuit missionaries from Lower California
GA 226
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A file of documents, sewn together, regarding a small Sonoran mining claim named San Jose. The San Jose was located in the Santa Rosa de Buenavista mountains around thirty miles east of the mining town Real de la Cieneguilla, which was to the east of Caborca in northwestern Sonora, Mexico. The documents, which bear a variety of signatures but are most prominently signed by the mining commissioner Jose Francisco de Velasco, register the mine and grant possession of it to Jose Elena Figueroa.
mssHM 69952
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Manuscripts
The chronologically-arranged documents demonstrate the range of legal, administrative, ecclesiastical, military, and genealogical records initiated by government representatives, lawyers, litigants, clerics, and laypersons from the late sixteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the records are legal and contractual, including wills, testimonies, inheritance cases, power of attorney contracts, and financial agreements between individuals and/or institutions. Administrative and ecclesiastical records mostly include appoiintments to secular and religious offices as well as some Inquisition and genealogical documents. Military records document pensions, compensations, and other payments made by the Royal Treasury to former military officers. Prominent persons and places of colonial and national Mexico and Guatemala are represented in the collection, such as Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas, first count of Revillagigedo and viceroy of New Spain from 1746-1755; Juan Nazario Peimbert, lawyer who proposed the formation of an Indian army in the event of a French invasion in 1809; and Juan Antonio de Vizarrón, Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain from 1734-1740.
HM 71089
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Manuscripts
The chronologically-arranged documents demonstrate the range of legal, administrative, ecclesiastical, military, and genealogical records initiated by government representatives, lawyers, litigants, clerics, and laypersons from the late sixteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the records are legal and contractual, including wills, testimonies, inheritance cases, power of attorney contracts, and financial agreements between individuals and/or institutions. Administrative and ecclesiastical records mostly include appoiintments to secular and religious offices as well as some Inquisition and genealogical documents. Military records document pensions, compensations, and other payments made by the Royal Treasury to former military officers. Prominent persons and places of colonial and national Mexico and Guatemala are represented in the collection, such as Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas, first count of Revillagigedo and viceroy of New Spain from 1746-1755; Juan Nazario Peimbert, lawyer who proposed the formation of an Indian army in the event of a French invasion in 1809; and Juan Antonio de Vizarrón, Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain from 1734-1740.
HM 71074 a
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This document records the revenues of the Real Hacienda (Royal Treasury) of New Spain for the years 1740 to 1744. This includes the tithe from the gold and silver trade, and revenues from different bishoprics and cities and towns. Both Lower California and the Philippines are covered. Signed by Juan Crisostomo de Barroeta.
mssHM 84023