Gerardo Murillo Papers mssMurillo
Brooke M. Black
The Huntington Library
August 2020
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
reference@huntington.org
Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Gerardo Murillo papers
Creator:
Atl, Dr., 1875-1964
Identifier/Call Number: mssMurillo
Physical Description:
0.4 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1914-1920
Abstract: Papers of Mexican painter and writer Gerardo Murillo also known as Dr. Atl.
Language of Material: Materials are in English and Spanish.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Gerardo Murillo papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Tammy Lau, Head, Sanoian Special Collections Library, Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno, September
1997.
Biographical / Historical
Gerardo Murillo, painter, writer, and socialist, was born in October 1875 in Guadalajara, Mexico. He later used the name Dr.
Atl. At 21, he joined the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City to study painting. He later went to Europe to study painting
and philosophy with a grant from the Mexican government. In 1911, he was in Paris and founded a journal about social and political
issues in Mexico. He returned to Mexico in 1916 during the Mexican Revolution. Dr. Atl later became the head of the Mexico's
Department of Archeological Monuments. He was a peer of Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Dr. Atl published several
books about folk art and politics throughout his life. He is known for his paintings of landscape. He died in August 1964
in Mexico City.
Scope and Contents
The Murillo papers consist of correspondence, typed articles, business records, legal documents, printed items, blueprint
maps, newspapers and other ephemera that date from 1914-1920. Most of the material is related to Murillo's business with the
company Compañia de Fomento de la Costa Mexicana Occidental and their dealings in oil, sugar, and land in California and Mexico.
One folder of material deals with politics in Mexico and the Mexican Revolution. There are also copies of the newspapers Confederacion
Revolucionaria, 1914 December 23, and El Pueblo, 1914 December 15.
Processing Information
Collection was processed by Brooke M. Black in August 2020.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Energy development -- Mexico
Painters -- Mexico -- Archives
Petroleum -- Mexico
Petroleum industry and trade -- Mexico
Mexico -- History -- 1910-1946
Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920
Articles -- Mexico -- 20th century
Business records -- Mexico -- 20th century
Legal documents -- Mexico -- 20th century
Letters (correspondence) -- California -- 20th century
Letters (correspondence) -- Mexico -- 20th century
Lau, Tammy
Compañía de Fomento de la Costa Mexicana Occidental
Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl)
1914-1917
Box 1, Folder 1
Confederación revolucionario. Primera conferencia . . . [por el] Doctor Atl. El Pueblo, volume 1, number 78
1914 December 23
Box 1, Folder 1
Dinámica social [por] Dr. Atl. El fracaso de Carranza en México; el antidoto necesario
approximately 1915
Box 1, Folder 1
Dinámica social [por] Dr. Atl. El fracaso de Carranza en México; el antidoto necesario: draft with corrections
approximately 1915
Box 1, Folder 1
Inter-American Peace Committee. Minutes of a meeting at the New Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.
1916 July 8
Box 1, Folder 1
Fragmento del manifesto publicado por el Dr. Atl en México en febrero de 1917. Acción mundial, volume 1, number 83
1917 January 19
Box 1, Folder 1
C.V. Carranza debe abandonar la dictadura. La conciencia de la republica y los derechos de la revolucion asi lo exigen. Acción
mundial, volume 1, number 83
1917 February
Box 1, Folder 1
Fragmento del numero especial de Acción mundial dedicado a demostrar las responsabilidades del C.V. Carranza, en el movimiento
revolucionario mexicano
approximately 1917
Scope and Contents
On Acción mundial letterhead.
Box 1, Folder 1
El Pueblo, año I, Tomo I, Número 70
1914 December 15
Box 1, Folder 1
La Reforma Social, Apuntes mexicanos II
1914 December
Box 1, Folder 1
Draft essay on Carranza
undated
Box 1, Folder 1
Letter by Dr. Atl to W. Foley
undated
Box 1, Folder 1
Fragment of letter by Luis G. Murillo on concessions
undated
Box 1, Folder 1
Luis G. Murillo letter to W. Foley
1920 March 20
Box 1, Folder 1
Announcement that Mexican West Coast is selling 25% of its interests in federal oil, land, and forests
undated
Box 1, Folder 1
List of governors of five states on west coast of Mexico
undated
Compañía de Fomento de la Costa Mexicana Occidental
1918-1920
Box 1, Folder 2
Letters between Enrique B. Cota and W.I. Foley
1918-1919
Scope and Contents
Relating to land called Pascualitos, Baja California.
Box 1, Folder 2
Compañía Mercantil y de Fomento de la Costa del Pácifico. Draft proposal for formation of company, Los Angeles
1919 August 8
Box 1, Folder 2
W. I. Foley to Luis G. Murillo. Cancelled checks, drawn on the First National Bank of Los Angeles
1919 September-December
Box 1, Folder 2
Gerardo Murillo letter to W.I. Foley and A.B. Cohn relating to possible purchase of land and use of Sonora (?) River water
to irrigate it
1919 October 7
Box 1, Folder 2
Luis G. Murillo letter to W.I. Foley
1919 October 13
Box 1, Folder 2
Gerardo Murillo letter to W.I. Foley
1919 October 25
Box 1, Folder 2
Gerardo Murillo letter regarding California and Mexico Steamship Co.
1919 November 17
Scope and Contents
With brochure from the steamship company dated September 15, 1919.
Box 1, Folder 2
Miguel Alvarez Garcia, Governor of Comila, Mexico, letter to Luis G. Murillo
1919 November 8
Box 1, Folder 2
Luis G. Murillo letter to W.I. Foley
1920 January 5
Box 1, Folder 2
Luis G. Murillo letter to A.B. Cohn
1920 May 1
Box 1, Folder 2
Luis G. Murillo letter to W.I. Foley
undated
Box 1, Folder 2
Luis G. Murillo letter to W.I. Foley and A.B. Cohn
undated
Box 1, Folder 2
Compañía de Fomento de la Costa Mexicana Occidental
undated
Box 1, Folder 2
Printed copy of manuscript map of the north coast of Honduras with distances from Ceiba
undated
Box 1, Folder 3
Compañía de Fomento de la Costa Mexicana Occidental legal agreements
1907-1919
Scope and Contents
This folder contains agreements, contracts, and legal documents related to Gerardo Murillo and his business interests, sugar,
oil, and land, in Caliornia and Mexico, 1907-1919.
Compañía de Fomento de la Costa Mexicana Occidental - Oil
1914-1919
Box 1, Folder 4
Luis G. Murillo proposed terms under which he will work with Union Oil Company
Scope and Contents
Laid in is a letter from Union Oil Company to A.B. Cohn, August 27, 1919.
Box 1, Folder 4
Luis G. Murillo letter to Luis Castellanos Tapia, Governor of Jalisco
1919 August 28
Box 1, Folder 4
Ignacio L. Montenegro
1919 September
Box 1, Folder 4
Luis G. Murillo letter to W.I. Foley and A.B. Cohn
1919 September 8-17
Box 1, Folder 4
Draft agreement with Union Oil Company
undated
Scope and Contents
Incomplete.
Box 1, Folder 4
Luis G. Murillo draft of report of Luis Murillo's visit to Colima/Jalisco area
undated
Scope and Contents
Incomplete.
Box 1, Folder 4
Plano de varios terrenos ubicados en la zona petrolera de Ciudad de Valles
1914 April
Scope and Contents
Blueprint map, 1 sheet (scale: 1:20,000).
Box 1, Folder 5
Compañía de Fomento de la Costa Mexicana Occidental - Sugar
1919
Scope and Contents
This folder contains correspondence and some documents related to Gerardo Murillo's sugar business in California and Mexico,
1919.