Collection Contents
Box 1, Folder 2
Antigua Libreria Robredo, 1949.
Box 1, Folder 3
Aschmann, Homer, 1954.
Additional Note
Includes Baja California climatic data charts.
Box 1, Folder 5
Dawson's Book Shop, 1979.
Additional Note
Glen Dawson.
Box 1, Folder 6
Gerhard, Peter, 1943 -1951.
Box 1, Folder 7
Kelly, William, 1940 -1949.
Box 1, Folder 8
Kroeber, A.L., 1932 -1939.
Box 1, Folder 9
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1935.
Box 1, Folder 10
Meigs, Loren (brother), 1925 -1932.
Box 1, Folder 12
Smith, Helen, 1970 -1971.
Box 1, Folder 14
Baja California bibliographies, 1952 -1961.
Box 1, Folder 15
Baja California climatic data, 1919 -1967.
Additional Note
Notes and charts.
Box 1, Folder 16
Capes of Human Hair from Baja California and Outside, 1970.
Additional Note
Reprint and negative of illustration. Published in PACIFIC COAST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
QUARTERLY, Vol. 6, No. 1, January 1970.
Box 1, Folder 17
Creation Myth and Other Recollections of the Niji Mishkwish, 1971.
Additional Note
Reprint, draft, photograph, drawing, and map. Published in PACIFIC COAST ARCHAEOLOGICAL
SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 1971.
Box 1, Folder 19
Dominican Mission Frontier of Lower California, 1935.
Box 1, Folder 20
Kiliwa Indians - Dialects, .
Box 1, Folder 21
Kiliwa Indians - Notes, 1917 -1977.
Box 1, Folder 22
Kiliwa Indians - Valle Trinidad notes, 1929.
Box 1, Folder 23
Kiliwa Indians of Lower California, 1932 -1969.
Additional Note
Correspondence and manuscript draft.
Box 1, Folder 25
Notes on the Paipai of San Isidoro, Baja California, 1977.
Additional Note
Reprint. Published in PACIFIC COAST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Vol. 13, No. 1,
January 1977.
Box 1, Folder 26
Noticias de la Provincia de Californias en Tres Cartas, by Luis Sales. Translated by Meigs, .
Additional Note
Manuscript.
Box 1, Folder 27
Noticias de la Provincia de Californias en Tres Cartas, by Luis Sales. Translated by Meigs, .
Additional Note
Typescript.
Box 1, Folder 28
Rains and hurricanes in southern Baja California, 1966.
Additional Note
Draft and notes.
Box 1, Folder 29
Some Pictographs in Northern Baja California, 1976.
Additional Note
Reprint. Published in PACIFIC COAST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Vol. 12, No. 1,
January 1976.
Box 1, Folder 30
Diary of Junipero Serra; Mch. 28 - June 30, 1769. Part III, 1902.
Additional Note
Published in OUTWEST, vol. 16, no. 5.
Box 1, Folder 31
Gifford, E.W. "The Kamia of Imperial Valley", 1931.
Additional Note
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 97.
Box 2, Folder 1
Gifford, E.W. and R.H. Lowie. "Notes on the Akwa'ala Indians of Lower California", 1929.
Additional Note
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 23, No.
7, pp. 339-352. 2 copies, both annotated by Meigs.
Box 2, Folder 2
Hastings, James Rodney, ed. CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA FOR BAJA CALIFORNIA, 1964.
Additional Note
University of Arizona. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Technical Reports on the
Meteorology and Climatology of Arid Regions, No. 14.
Box 2, Folder 3
Hendry, George W. "Francisco Palou's Boundary Marker", 1926.
Additional Note
California Historical Society, San Francisco, 1926.
Box 2, Folder 4
Mexico. Secretaria de Agricultura y Ganaderia. Servicio Meteorologico Mexicano, 1924 -1954.
Additional Note
Manuscript meteorological data charts recording temperature, rainfall, dominant wind
direction, number of days of fog, and number of cloudy days for reporting stations in
Baja California and Sonora from the 1920s to the 1950s. Completeness of the data varies
for each station
Box 2, Folder 5
Nelson, Edward W. LOWER CALIFORNIA AND ITS NATURAL RESOURCES, 1921.
Additional Note
Published in MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Vol. XVI.
Box 2, Folder 6
North Mexican Center for Anthropology, 1953.
Additional Note
Brochure.
Box 2, Folder 7
Rogers, Malcolm J. "The Stone Art of the San Dieguito Plateau", 1929.
Additional Note
Reprinted from AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Vol. 31, No. 3, July-September 1929.
Box 2, Folder 8
Shreve, Forest. "A Desert by the Sea", 1935.
Additional Note
Carnegie Institution of Washington, News Service Bulletin, School Edition. Vol. 3, No.
26, Release Date Sunday, September 29, 1935.
Box 2, Folder 9
Shreve, Forest and R.D. Mallery. "Desert Investigations", 1934.
Additional Note
Annual Report of the Division of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington,
1933-1934. Issued December 14, 1934.
Box 2, Folder 10
Outlined account of Baja California explorations, 1926 -1928.
Additional Note
Contains references to journal page numbers and photographs.
Box 2, Folder 11
Journal 1, 1925.
Additional Note
January 1 -August 3. Baja California.
Box 2, Folder 12
Journal 1A, 1925.
Additional Note
June 25 -July 26. Baja California. Notes before going and measurements of elevation.
Box 2, Folder 13
Journal 2, 1926.
Additional Note
May -June. Baja California. Sauer's trip 1.
Box 2, Folder 14
Journal 3, 1926.
Additional Note
June -July. Baja California. Sauer's trip 2.
Box 2, Folder 15
Journal 4, 1926.
Additional Note
July -August. Baja California. Sauer's trip 3.
Box 3, Folder 1
Journal 5, 1927.
Additional Note
May -June. Baja California. Field notes 1.
Box 3, Folder 2
Journal 5A, 1927.
Additional Note
Meteorological data. Includes newspaper articles about Meig's 1926 and 1927 explorations.
Box 3, Folder 3
Lower California Day Book, 1927.
Additional Note
One entry, dated May 14.
Box 3, Folder 4
Journal 6, 1927.
Additional Note
June -July. Field notes 2.
Box 3, Folder 5
Journal 7, 8, and 9, 1927.
Additional Note
Volume contains "1927, July -August, Field notes 3"; "1927-1928, Winter"; and "1928,
Summer, 2 weeks, includes Kiliwa study."
Box 3, Folder 6
Journal 10, 1928.
Additional Note
Kiliwa study, first summer, with Yvonne, 1.
Box 3, Folder 7
Journal 11, 1928.
Additional Note
Kiliwa study, first summer, with Yvonne, 2.
Box 3, Folder 8
Journal 12, 1928.
Additional Note
Ensenada.
Box 3, Folder 9
Journal 13, 1929.
Additional Note
Santa Catalina Mission. Geography of Kiliwas.
Box 3, Folder 10
Journal 14, 1929.
Additional Note
Schmieder, Oscar. "Lower Californian Studies. II. The Russian colony of Guadalupe
Valley." University of California Publications in Geography 2, no. 14 (1928). 409-434.
Heavily annotated by Meigs while in the field in 1929.
PHOTOGRAPHS AND LANTERN SLIDES
Box 3, Folder 11, Map-case Oversize: FB-350-01
1925 Trip - Album, .
Additional Note
From Tijuana to El Rosario. Includes images of the Santo Tomas valley, Johnson's Ranch at
San Antonio del Mar, the San Telmo valley, the Hamilton Ranch in Santo Domingo, the San
Quintin flour mill and saltworks, and the town of El Rosario.
Box 3, Folder 12
1925 Trip - Unidentified images, .
Box 3, Folder 13, Map-case Oversize: FB-350-02
1926 Trip - Album, .
Additional Note
San Fernando Velicata to Santo Tomas. Includes images of the missions of San Fernando
Velicata, Nuestra Senora del Rosario, San Vicente Ferrer, Santo Domingo de la Frontera,
and Santo Tomas.
Box 3, Folder 14
1926 Trip - Unidentified images, .
Box 3, Folder 15, Map-case Oversize: FB-351-01
1927 Trip - Album, .
Additional Note
Tijuana to El Marmol. Includes images of Japanese abalone fisherman, the onyx mine at El
Marmol, the rancho at Santa Catarina, the San Fernando mine, and the saltworks at San
Quintin.
Box 3, Folder 16
1927 Trip - Unidentified images, .
Box 3, Folder 17, Map-case Oversize: FB-351-02
1928 Trip - Album, .
Additional Note
Valle Trinidad to Tijuana. Includes images of Kiliwa Indians around Arroyo Leon, street
scenes in Ensenada, and panoramic views of Tijuana from the hill above the port of entry
on the US side.
Box 3, Folder 18, Map-case Oversize: FB-351-03
1929 Trip - Album, .
Additional Note
Arroyo Leon to Neji. Includes images from the Guadalupe valley, the town of Santa
Catarina, and the village of Neji.
Box 3, Folder 19, Map-case Oversize: FB-351-04
1936 Trip - Album, .
Additional Note
Includes images of Mission San Miguel and Indians at Manteca.
Box 4, Folder 1
Lantern slides, 1925 -1936.
Box 5, Folder 1, Map-case Oversize: MC-154-01
Diagrammatic sketch from Cape Colnett to San Felipe Bay, .
Additional Note
Traced from sketch by J. van der Gracht. Pencil and colored pencil on tracing paper.
Box 5, Folder 2, Map-case Oversize: MC-154-01
Diagrammatic sketch from El Rosario to the Gulf of California at 30 degrees N. Latitude, .
Additional Note
Traced from sketch by J. van der Gracht. Pencil and colored pencil on tracing paper.
Box 5, Folder 3, Map-case Oversize: MC-154-01
Diagrammatic sketch from Santo Tomas to south of San Quintin, .
Additional Note
Pencil and colored pencil on tracing paper.
Box 5, Folder 4, Map-case Oversize: MC-154-01
[Distribution of coastal rock formations from Tijuana to Santa Catarina], .
Additional Note
Ink, pencil, and colored pencil on tracing paper.
Box 5, Folder 5
Geological profile, Todos Santos Bay to Gulf, 1926.
Additional Note
"Geol. Profile, Todos S. Bay to Gulf. Direction N. 71 Degrees E., Lindgren." Pencil on
paper.
Box 5, Folder 6, Map-case Oversize: MC-154-01
Lluvia annual. Baja California Sur, .
Additional Note
Unidentified publication.
Box 5, Folder 7, Map-case Oversize: MC-154-01
Maps published in THE DOMINICAN MISSION FRONTIER OF LOWER CALIFORNIA, 1935.
Additional Note
"General Map emphasizing the Dominican area of Lower California" and "Physical Regions
and Explorations."
Box 5, Folder 8
Northwest Mexico. Coastal Sectors, .
Additional Note
Unidentified publication.
Box 5, Folder 9, Map-case Oversize: MC-154-01
[Sketch map of area surrounding Mission Santa Catarina], .
Additional Note
Pencil on tracing paper.
Box 5, Folder 10, Map-case Oversize: MC-154-01
Sketch map of San Quintin Bay, .
Additional Note
Tracing from a blueprint by "C.J. Young (engineer), 1889, for the Compania Mexicana
Internacional. Elevations from U.S. Steamship 'Ranger,' 1888. Blueprint loaned by David
Goldbaum." Pencil on tracing paper.
Box 5, Folder 11, Map-case Oversize: MC-154-01
Sketch map of the San Telmo River mouth, .
Additional Note
Pencil on tracing paper.
Box 5, Folder 12, Map-case Oversize: MC-154-01
Sketch map of the lands of Mission Santa Catarina, .
Additional Note
Traced from "Terrenos de la ex-mision de Sta. Catalina. Wm. Denton, Fernando Lantern(?),
1895(?)." Pencil on tracing paper.
Box 5, Folder 13
Sketch maps of El Rosario, 1926.
Additional Note
Pencil on paper.
Box 5, Folder 14, Map-case Oversize: MC-154-02
Thornthwaite, C.W. Baja California Sketch Map, 1925.
Additional Note
Based on the work of Carl H. Beal for the Marland Oil Company. Segmented into 12
quadrangles; quadrangle 10 missing. Includes set of reduced-size photocopies with
annotations by Meigs.
Box 5, Folder 15
Vila, Vicente. Puerto de San Diego situado por 32 grados 32 minutos de latitud septent, 1769.
Additional Note
Photocopy of a manuscript map in Archivo General de Indias, Seville.
Box 5, Folder 16
Newspaper clippings, 1925 -1962.
Box 5, Folder 19
Principal Publications by Peveril Meigs, 1974.
Box 5, Folder 20
Telegram from William A. Saathoff (foreman) to Eulogio Romero, .
Additional Note
April 5, 1908.
ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES
Box 5, Folder 21
Originals of preservation photocopies, .
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