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Title: James Howard Collection
Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0698
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California, 92093-0175
Languages:
English
Physical Description:
1.4 Linear feet
(1 archives box and 5 oversize folders)
Date: circa 1882-1939
Abstract: Photographs and documents from the collection of James Howard, a mining foreman with the Amparo Mining Company who lived in
Guadalajara, Mexico and worked in the Bolaños region starting in 1889.
Creator:
Howard, James, 1868-
James H. Howard was born in England on January 20, 1868. In 1883 he emigrated from England and came to New York; he then moved
to Texas in 1885, where he worked for the International Mining Company as a timberman. In 1889 Howard moved to Guadalajara,
Mexico, where he settled in the American Colony of Colonia Seattle. Howard took a job working at the Amparo Mining Company
in Bolaños, a mining district north of Guadalajara.
In Guadalajara, Howard met and married Maria Ignacia Martínez. In order to marry Martínez, he had to prove to the Mexican
government that we was indeed single, and that he had never married before in England or America. As proof, Howard obtained
three letters from his former employers as documentation to contest to his unmarried status. Howard and Martínez had their
first child, Katherine Eleanor Howard on March 6, 1911.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photographs and documents from the collection of James Howard, a mining foreman with the Amparo Mining Company who lived in
Guadalajara, Mexico and worked in the Bolaños region starting in 1889. The papers include a few blueprints and plans for mining
equipment; photographs of the regional landscape, towns, mine operations, and people; and a personal journal from Howard.
The collection also includes a small amount of biographical material about Howard, including personal correspondence and a
genealogical chart for the Howard family. Three documents are written in Spanish.
The papers are arranged in four series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) GUADALAJARA HOUSING AND MINING DOCUMENTS, 3) PHOTOGRAPHS, and
4) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS.
James Howard Collection. MSS 698. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
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prior permission. The original manuscripts for this collection are held by Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Amparo Mining Company.
British -- Mexico -- Jalisco -- Guadalajara
Mines and mineral resources -- Mexico -- Jalisco
Mining corporations -- Mexico -- Jalisco
Portrait photographs -- 19th century
Portrait photographs -- 20th century