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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
In this letter to Bucareli, the Viceroy of New Spain, the Captain writes of an Indian named Carlos, who was involved with a native rebellion at San Diego. In Spanish.
mssHM 30486
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Manuscripts
mssHM 1881
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Manuscripts
This extensive report of Beleña's work in New Spain includes transcripts of letters to José de Gálvez and Carlos Francisco de Croix, details of the administration of the New Spanish colonies, Beleña's report to the King of Spain, details of expeditions to Monterey, California, and Sonora, information regarding Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries, and the management of tobacco depositories and salt mines. In Spanish.
mssHM 1545
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Rare Books
Broadside issued by the Viceroy of New Spain requiring shipments of minted coins and silver ingots to have a bill of lading stating their number, value and where they are destined. Further the bill must be signed by a mint official and by the individual reponsible for transporting the metal.
653021
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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