Finding Aid to the Francisco Mujica Diez de Bonilla Papers, 1956-1979

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Finding Aid to the Francisco Mujica Diez de Bonilla Papers, 1956-1979

Collection number: BANC MSS 84/89 m

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Contact Information:

The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu

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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Francisco Mujica Diez de Bonilla Papers,

Date: 1956-1979

Collection Number: BANC MSS 84/89 m

Collector: Mujica Diez de Bonilla, Francisco, 1899-1979

Extent: Number of containers: 2 boxes

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Correspondence with institutions in the United States and abroad to solicit interest in housing Mujica's Collection of original hand drawn reproductions of the art and architecture of pre-Columbian Mexico and New Spain. Also personal letters concerning his stay in the United States; memoranda, inventions and evaluations of his collection, and the will which outlines the final placement of his collection.

Languages Represented: Collection materials are in Spanish

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item] Francisco Mujica Diez de Bonilla Papers, BANC MSS 84/89 m, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Scope and Content

Title: Correspondence

with institutions in the United States and abroad to solicit interest in housing Professor Mujica's collection of original hand-drawn reproductions of the art and architecture of pre-Colombian Mexico and New Spain. Also personal letters concerning his stay in the United States. Miscellaneous personal papers include memoranda, inventories and evaluations of his collection, and the will which outlines the final placement of his collection.

Title: Outgoing letters

of Francisco Mujica Diez de Bonilla, 1974-1979 are arranged chronologically. Carbons and photocopies, they relate for the most part to attempts to place his collection.

Title: Incoming letters

are arranged alphabetically by writer or organization, then chronologically within each folder. When possible, they are listed under institutional affiliation, since Mujica was primarily interested in that aspect of his correspondents. Single items have been placed in an A-Z miscellany at the beginning of the series.

Gift of his estate, 1981?

Biographical Note

Born in Mexico, January 29, 1899, the son of a career diplomat, Professor Mujica in his early years attended schools in Spain, France, Belgium, Argentina, and Chile, pursuing his studies in higher education at the Universities of Chile, Mexico, and Paris. As President of the Architecture Students' Center at the University of Chile, he was the School of Architecture's delegate to the first Pan American Congress of Architects.

The lifework of Architect Mujica is unique—a true graphic inventory of Mexico's artistic treasure— and consists of five major sections: pre-Hispanic art, Colonial art, Modern art, landscapes, and finally prototypes, costumes, and customs. The collection has been praised by world-famous anthropologists and archaeologists including Rivat, Morley, Imbelloni, Kidder, and Capitan. Aldon Mason, Curator ofthe Philadelphia Museum of Art, stated, 'No description could do justice to the enormous and extraordinary collection of drawings and photographs of Mexican art, archaeology and architecture'... .

by Dr. Capitan, Curator, Paris Museum

SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1961-1979.

OUTGOING LETTERS

Box 1, folder 1

A-Z miscellany 1974-76

Physical Description: 11

folder 2

A-Z miscellany 1977

Physical Description: 31

folder 3

A-Z miscellany 1978-79

Physical Description: 22

folder 4

to Altamirano, Fernando 1975-76

Physical Description: 7

folder 5

to Bussler, Wolfgang 1974

Physical Description: 3

folder 6

to Elsasser, Albert B. 1976

Physical Description: 4

folder 7

to Fuenzalida de Balbontín, Manuel 1977-78

Physical Description: 16

folder 8

to Hart, James David, 1911- 1977-78

Physical Description: 3

folder 9

to Lopez, Raul A., 1937- 1976-77

Physical Description: 4

folder 10

to Schaefer, John Paul, 1934- 1978

Physical Description: 6

folder 11

to Stegmann, Wilhelm undated, 1974

Physical Description: 7

INCOMING LETTERS

Box 1, folder 12

A-Z miscellany 1977-79

Physical Description: 27

folder 13

Altamirano, Fernando 1974-76

Physical Description: 6

folder 14

Bancroft Library by Hart, James David, 1911- and Dinnean, Lawrence 1975-77

Physical Description: 6

Bascom, William Russell, 1912-

see Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology

folder 15

Borah, Woodrow Wilson, 1912- 1975

Physical Description: 1

Bussler, Wolfgang

see Technische Universität Berlin. Institut für Nutzplanzenforschung

folder 16

California Academy of Sciences by Lindsay, George Edmund, 1916- 1977-78

Physical Description: 3

Columbia University

see Placzek, Adolf K.

folder 17

Corbett, Michael R. 1977

Physical Description: 1

Eisleb, Dieter

see Museum für Völkerkunde (Germany)

folder 18

Elsasser, Albert B. 1975-79

Physical Description: 8

folder 19

Fuenzalida de Balbontín, Manuel 1977-78

Physical Description: 8

folder 20

Hammond, George Peter, 1896- 1975

Physical Description: 2

Hart, James David, 1911-

see Bancroft Library

folder 21

Heizer, Robert Fleming, 1915- 1975

Physical Description: 1

folder 22

Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Berlin, Germany)by Stegmann, Wilhelm 1974

Physical Description: 4

Lindsay, George Edmund, 1916-

see California Academy of Sciences

folder 23

Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 1961

Physical Description: 1

folder 24

Monguió, Luis 1975

Physical Description: 1

folder 25

Museum für Völkerkunde (Germany) by Eisleb, Dieter 1974

Physical Description: 1

folder 26

Norick, Frank Albert 1977-79

Physical Description: 7

folder 27

Placzek, Adolf K. 1977-78

Physical Description: 2

folder 28

Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology by Bascom, William Russell 1978

Physical Description: 2

folder 29

Technische Universität Berlin. Institut für Nutzplanzenforschung by Bussler, Wolfgang 1974

Physical Description: 3

folder 30

Torre Villar, Ernesto de la 1971-77

Physical Description: 14

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas

see Torre Villar, Ernesto de la

folder 31

University of Arizona, Tucson by Schaefer, John Paul, 1934- 1978

Physical Description: 1

folder 32

University of California, Los Angeles. Latin American Center by Wilbert, Johannes 1977

Physical Description: 1

folder 33

University of Texas at Austin by Rogers, Lorene Lane, 1914- 1977-78

Physical Description: 3

SERIES 2:PERSONAL PAPERS, 1956-1979.

Box 2, folder 1

Biographical information

folder 2-3

Catalogs and announcements of exhibitions 1956-79

folder 4

Descriptions of his archives

folder 5

Lists of contents of trunks and cases ca. 1975-77

folder 6

Memoranda ca. 1974-78

folder 7

Official reports and opinions by UC Berkeley experts ca. 1977

folder 8

Passports and identity Papers 1958-79

folder 9

Papers relating to property in Chile

folder 10

Poems by Mujica

folder 11

Wills ca. 1977-79

folder 12

Miscellaneous ca. 1975-79 & undated