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    Circle Bar Cattle Co. - Maps

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    5 items: three oilcloth (cotton, fiber) small maps of Chandler holdings in Baja California, east of Ensenada, dated 6/1932 ; large map (on heavy blueprint paper) of northern part of Baja California and a portion of state of Sonora, "survey...1879" ; map, 1931, (on heavy white paper) of more northerly section of Baja California and portion of Sonora with affixed letter (1932) describing the "Circle-Bar Cattle Co. holdings and leases in Lower Calif."

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    Guevara, Baltasar Ladron de]. [New Spain]

    Manuscripts

    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

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    [Storace, Jorge]. Map: Plano de la Costa del Sur. Correxido hasta la Canal de

    Manuscripts

    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 566

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    Arce y Arroyo, Juan Antonio de. Mexico, New Spain

    Manuscripts

    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 697

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    Certificate of land warrant

    Manuscripts

    This item is a numbered certificate indicating that an individual has paid $500 to the Independence Loan Fund of the Republic of Sonora, for which he will receive one league of land in the public domain. Printed form, numbered 68, and signed by William Walker, but no name of the payer is entered. It was Walker's intent to create a Republic of Sonora, but his plans were not sanctioned by either Mexico or the United States.

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    [Croix, Carlos Francisco de, Marques de Croix]. Mexico, New Spain

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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 358