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Manuscripts
Note: attached to the top of this letter is a document (24 cm.) in pencil noting the information taken from the deed between Juan Ygnacio Valencia and Leopoldo Oreña
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Manuscripts
Note: Leopoldo Oreña most likely writing to Gaspar Oreña
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Manuscripts
Note: estimated date based on Dec. 30, 1894 letter from Leopoldo Oreña to "Friend Mr. Powell" in which author states that all of his father's documents had been sent to San Francisco
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Manuscripts
Note: this letter is glued to a piece of cardstock to which another letter is attached. The second letter is a single-sheet correspondence from Bernardo Llata to Gaspar Oreña, dated May 6, 1870 (in Spanish)
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Manuscripts
Note: this letter is glued to a sheet of cardstock to which another document is attached. The second is an 1873 invoice for Gaspar Oreña from Santa Clara College
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The documents demonstrate the range of legal, financial, and real estate-related transactions initiated by or concerning the Oreña Family and their associates. Included in this series are title deeds, land claims, and land grants pertaining to the family's properties in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. Also included are receipts and invoices. The manuscripts include four works pertaining to the Oreña Family as well as other early California families, namely the de la Guerra family. The series also contains two typewritten manuscripts: the first is Occurrences in California, as reported by Angustias de la Guerra Ord and the second is Carlota Koch's "La Guipuzcoana," which chronicles the lives of Gaspar Orena, Cesareo Lataillade, Maria Antonia de la Guerra, and those of their acquaintances. The correspondence includes personal and business letters to and by the Oreña Family members and their associates. Among the authors is Alfred Robinson (b. 1806-d.1895), author of Life in California (1891). Four photographs of the Columbus Library in Seville, Spain comprise the fourth series. These black-and-white photos were taken in September 1955. The photographer, who included only his/her initials of "AK," indicated that the images are not available for publication. Finally, three items comprise ephemera. These include two 1891 arguments issued by the Supreme Court of the State of California relating to the case of C.E. Lataillade, Plaintiff and Appellant, vs. Gaspar Oreña, Defendant and Respondent. The final item in this series is an autographed note written on a fragment of an ANP-ANETA News Bulletin, dated April 23, 1951.
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