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Volume containing the abstracts of title and documents related to the Rancho Rosa de Castilla. Accompanying the volume is a transcript of an interview, done in June 1967, with Esperanza and Margarita Batz, descedants of Jean-Baptiste Batz.
mssHM 31537
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Materials related to the silver mining operations of the de la Maza family at the Real de Minas del Catorce, San Luis de Potosi, Mexico. Includes 12 photographs from about 1900 featuring views of the mine enclosures, people on horseback, aerial views of the church and railway transport cars, and the dam from various angles. Also includes one bound map embossed with the name Gregorio de la Maza Utrera: Mapa Minero y Geológico del Distrito de Catorce Estado de S. Luis Potosi. 1885; and two publications: Exposición y dictámenes, Sobre la Libertada de Impuestos a las Platas en el Estado de San Luis Potosí, 1868; and Apuntes para un Proyecto de Código de Minería presentado al Señor Ministro de Fomento General D. Carlos Pacheco por el Ingeniero de Minas, Santiago Ramirez, 1884.
mssRealMinas
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Materials related to the silver mining operations of the de la Maza family at the Real de Minas del Catorce, San Luis de Potosi, Mexico. Includes 12 photographs from about 1900 featuring views of the mine enclosures, people on horseback, aerial views of the church and railway transport cars, and the dam from various angles. Also includes one bound map embossed with the name Gregorio de la Maza Utrera: Mapa Minero y Geológico del Distrito de Catorce Estado de S. Luis Potosi. 1885; and two publications: Exposición y dictámenes, Sobre la Libertada de Impuestos a las Platas en el Estado de San Luis Potosí, 1868; and Apuntes para un Proyecto de Código de Minería presentado al Señor Ministro de Fomento General D. Carlos Pacheco por el Ingeniero de Minas, Santiago Ramirez, 1884.
mssRealMinas
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This extremely important logbook records the historic voyage of Lopez de Haro in the 'San Carlos' which accompanied Captain Estevan Jose Martinez' frigate, the 'Princesa' on its expedition of discovery to the north Californian coast. The manuscript describes the daily events and observations from the San Carlos from the 8th March 1788 when the Expedition left San Blas, to 22nd October, 1788, when they regained that port. In many of his notes, Lopez de Haro mentions that he was obliged to abandon the Spanish chart which he carried and refer to that of Cook, which he found a better guide, more especially in the region of Prince William port and Montague Island, which they reached on the 27th May. Text in Spanish.
mssHM 146
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The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.
mssShorb papers
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The collection consists of letters and documents in one bound volume regarding the outfitting of Pedro Alberni's expedition at San Blas, Mexico (in 1789 and 1790), the occupation of his troops at Nootka, and their return to San Blas in 1792. Persons represented in the collection include: Pedro de Alberni (16 letters), Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (10 letters), Manuel Antonio Flores (8 letters), Pedro Gorostiza (8 letters), Juan Vicente de Guemes Pacheco, Conde de Revillagigedo (63 letters), Francisco Hijosa (7 letters), Antonio Villaurrutia y Salcedo (17 letters), Jacobo Ugarte y Loyola (5 letters).
mssHM 327