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.