Guide to the Mission Santa Clara Map Collection, 1854-1980
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Guide to the Mission Santa Clara Map Collection, 1854-1980
Collection Number: MAPS-MSC
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- Date Completed:
- 7/1/93
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- Anne McMahon
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Provenance: Santa Clara University Archives
Santa Clara University
Title: Mission Santa Clara Map Collection,
Date: 1854-1980
Repository:
Santa Clara University Archives
Santa Clara, CA 95053
Extent: 17 items
Collection Number: MAPS-MSC
Abstract: The Mission Santa Clara Map Collection consists of 17 maps of Mission Santa Clara,
founded in 1777 by the Franciscan Fathers. The maps range in date from 1854-1980,
and include site plans, surveys, plot maps, and landscape drawings.
Languages:
and [code "English" not found in ISO 639-2 list].
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[Identification of item], Mission Santa Clara Map Collection, Santa Clara
University. University Archives.
Mission Santa Clara de Asis was founded in 1777, the eighth of the original 21 California
Missions. Santa Clara University, founded in 1851 by the Society of Jesus as Santa Clara
College, was established on the site of Mission Santa Clara de Asis. It is California's oldest
institution of higher learning.
The Mission Santa Clara Map Collection consists of 17 maps of Mission Santa Clara,
ranging in date from 1854-1980. Some maps are original while others are copies of maps
with annotations. Included in the collection is an original hand drawn map of the
Mission grounds in 1854, maps comparing the early Mission site with more contemporary
SCU buildings, and maps of the three Mission sites with annotations.
The Mission Santa
Clara Map Collection is an artificial collection of maps of Mission Santa Clara, collected
by the University Archives. The items in the collection were acquired from various sources,
including faculty, staff, alumni, University departments, and private donors.
Arrangement
The Mission Santa Clara Map Collection is arranged numerically by Map ID.
Map ID: MSC-001
Mission Santa Clara, 1854.
1854
Creator: Surveyed by G. Black
Physical Description: Photostat, black on white, with annotations by Arthur D. Spearman, S.J.
11x14 in.
Map ID: MSC-002
Mission Santa Clara, 1854.
1854
Creator: Surveyed by G. Black
Physical Description: Photostat, white on black, with annotations by Arthur D. Spearman, S.J.
14 x17.5 in.
Map ID: MSC-003
Mission Santa Clara buildings and sites, 1781-1837, compared to central [SCU] buildings [of 1967].
[1967]
Creator: M. Malone
Physical Description: Ink on paper
Map ID: MSC-004
Sketch of Third Mission Site, 1851.
[1940's]
Creator: Henry L. Walsh, S.J.
Physical Description: Pencil on paper
10x27 in.
Map ID: MSC-004c
Photostatic copy of MSC-004, with annotations.
[1940's]
Creator: Henry L. Walsh, S.J.
Physical Description: Photostat with annotations by Arthur D. Spearman, S.J.
17x22.5 in.
Map ID: MSC-005
Mission Santa Clara, August 1854.
August 1854
Creator: John G. Cleal
Physical Description: Blueprint
17x13 in.
Map ID: MSC-006
Tracing of Map MSC-005, Mission Santa Clara, August 1854, with additions.
[1958]
Creator: Tracing by [Authur D. Spearman, S.J.]
Note
Map ID: MSC-007
Map Showing sites of Santa Clara Mission, compiled from the plats and field notes on file in U.S. Surveyor General Office,
San Francisco, by John Pope. Inset map of Monument Lot Santa Clara Mission Site #1.
1921
Creator: Surveyed by John Pope
Physical Description: Annotations by Arthur D. Spearman, S.J.
22.5x36 in.
Note
Copies on linen and paper
Map ID: MSC-008
Revised Map of the Successive Sites of Mission Santa Clara de Assis 1777-1825, from the Original Map by John E. Pope, C.E.
with modernizing of the site-notations of Rev. James A. Colligan, S.J. from the research of Rev. A.D. Spearman, S.J. Santa
Clara, 1959.
1959
Creator: Annotations by Arthur D. Spearman, S.J.
Physical Description: Paper
11x18 in.
Map ID: MSC-009
Map showing sites of Santa Clara Mission...from the original Map made by John E. Pope, January, 1921; revised with indication
of all five successive sites of Franciscan Mission Santa Clara churches in relation to the Guadalupe before its straightening
begun in early 1960.
n.d.
Creator: Annotations by Arthur D. Spearman, S.J.
Physical Description:
22.5x36 in.
Map ID: MSC-010
Third Mission Site Santa Clara.
[1980]
Physical Description: Blueprint
36x24 in.
Map ID: MSC-011
Mission Santa Clara, Based on G. Black's Map of 1854.
[1950]
Physical Description: Photocopy
24x16 in.
Map ID: MSC-012
Plot of Old Mission from Bk 7, page 12 [Santa Clara County Records].
1854
Creator: Lucien Henly, Deputy [County Surveyor]
Physical Description: Photocopy
20x18 in.
Note
Accession Number 981-041
Map ID: MSC-013
Map of Santa Clara Area.
n.d.
Physical Description:
30x24 in.
Note
Possibly copied from U.S. Surveyor General's Office as basis for Map ID MSC-007.
Map ID: MSC-014
Detail of MSC-013.
n.d.
Physical Description:
21x14 in.