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Del Amo family and business records

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Description: This collection contains two prospectuses: Rancho San Pedro and Del Amo Industrial Park. It includes an autograph book to Gregorio del Amo, Madrid, 1931. There are also photographs of Colegio Mayor Jaime del Amo in Madrid, Spain. There is one letter from Robert G. Breyer to Jaime del Amo accompanied with four photographs of the Del Amo Center. Finally, the collection includes a newspaper clipping describing how Don Wilson and Milton Kauffman presented a one-million-dollar check to Jaime del Amo as first payment for purchase of the del Amo property on May 15, 1955.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1931-1967.
Call number: mssHM 83501 (a-e)
Creator: Del Amo (Family)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Cristina del Amo, April 2017.
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Photograph album of Domingo Rabasa and family members on Huntington Library grounds

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An album of personal snapshots, studio portraits, photo postcards, and some clippings compiled by Domingo Rabasa (b. 1900 Spain - d. 1985 Los Angeles), identified as the valet for the household of Susan Dominquez Del Amo and Dr. Gregorio Del Amo at 1119 Westchester Place, Los Angeles. Photographs include many views of The Huntington Library gardens and grounds, including the North Vista, the Shakespeare Garden, the exterior of the Billiards room and office; and fountains and statuary throughout the grounds; group outings; cemeteries, including tombstones, one marking Bernardo Chaler (1886-1919) identified as the brother-in-law of Domingo Rabasa.

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Real de Minas del Catorce records

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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.

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Real de Minas del Catorce records

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Relación del descubrimiento y conquista de los reinos del Peru : [manuscript]

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This is Pizarro's account of his experience during the Spanish conquest of Peru. In Spanish. ff. iv, 1-166v. [Pedro Pizarro] Relación del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú. Incipit: Muchos son catolico y clementissimo principe los que an escripto las cosas De estos vuestros rreynos Del Peru. Explicit: Y asi ba aqui todo lo que ba escripto con toda berdad acabose esta escriptura Año de mil y quinientos y setenta y un años a siete dias del mes de hebrero. Rubric: Relación Del descubrimiento y conquista De los Reinos del piru y Del govierno y horden que los naturales tenian y tesoros que En ellos se hallaron y de las demas cosas que en el an çubçedido hasta el Dia De su fecha. Spanish. G. Lohmann Villena, ed., Relación del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú, by Pedro Pizarro (Lima 1978) published from this manuscript which is described on pp. xxxvii-xxxviii; see also M. Fernández de Navarrete, Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de España (Madrid 1844) 5:201-388, an edition of the 32-chapter version published from the manuscript of Martínez del Villar.

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Stiefel family papers

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This small group consists of three photographs, one letter, and two military records related to the Stiefel family from 1862-1918. HM 83912 (a): Reinhard Stiefel's appointment as 5th Corporal of Company E of the 6th Regiment of Minnesota Volunteer and discharge as Sergeant, 1862-1865. HM 83912 (b): photograph of Reinhard Stiefel in his sergeant's uniform, approximately 1864. HM 83912 (c): photograph of Stiefel family and other passengers on or near the "Rubio" incline car at the Echo Mountain station in Los Angeles County, California, 1913. HM 83912 (d): photograph of Armistice Day celebration on Nicollet Street and 7th Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 11, 1918. HM 83912 (e): letter from a World War I Canadian soldier in France with the initials L.A.C. to Florence Fried of Toronto, Ontario. In the letter, they thank Fried for a care package received in a field hospital, December 25, 1918.

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Venice-Del Rey Oil Field. 7-9-1930

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View of oil derricks in a large industrial oil field next to the beach. View includes canal, houses, storage tanks and streets with automobiles. “Del Rey Hills” is in large letters on hills in background, as well as dollar signs.

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