WPA Transcriptions and Translations of Los Angeles City Archives Records, 1825-1850 (of the originals)

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Summary

Title:
WPA Transcriptions and Translations of Los Angeles City Archives Records
Dates:
1825-1850 (of the originals)
Creators:
Morrison, Carroll and Morrison, Lorrin
Abstract:
This collection consists of transcriptions and translations of registers of Spanish-language legal documents from Los Angeles under the rule of Mexico, such as the Libro de resoluciones [y] de conciliaciones. This work of transcription and translation was project C-6975 of the Federal Works Progress Administration and was carried out from 1937 through 1938.
Extent:
5 archival boxes
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English Spanish
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Series number, Box and Folder number, WPA Transcriptions and Translations of Los Angeles City Archives Records, CSLA-25, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of transcriptions and translations of registers of Spanish-language legal documents from Los Angeles under the rule of Mexico, such as the Libro de resoluciones [y] de conciliaciones. This work of transcription and translation was project C-6975 of the Federal Works Progress Administration and was carried out from 1937 through 1938. The CSLA Research Collection lacks the complete run of transcriptions and translations produced by this WPA project. Volumes of transcriptions in our holdings have a companion volume of translations, except for volume 1, which contains only translations of original documents. Volumes, whether of translations or transcriptions, consist of unbound carbon copies of typed sheets. Pages are unnumbered, and the number of pages for each volume is uncertain but probably averages around one thousand. Trappings of an apparatus criticus of a critical edition provide the modern orthography of words spelled in the Spanish of mid-nineteenth century Los Angeles, in brackets next to the word in the transcriptions. Reproduced in the transcriptions are the numerous abbreviated words found in the original registers (abbreviations were the normal notarial practice of the day); the full spelling of these words is provided in brackets next to their abbreviated form.

The titles for the volumes listed below are taken from those assigned by Caroll Morrison, who donated these materials to the CSLA Research Collection; she and her husband Lorrin Morrsion had collected them. Michael Engh, S. J., served as the intermediary for this transfer to LMU. Names of note found in these volumes include Andres and Pío Pico, Alexander Dunn, Agustín Machado, José and Juan Sepulveda, Abel Stearns, Benjamin Hayes, and Antonio Ignacio Avila.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Carroll Morrison, with Michael Engh, S.J., the intermediary. Accession number: 2002.83
Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in five boxes:

  • BOX 1:
    Volume A. Transcriptions. Dates: 1825-1850. This volume contains testimonies rendered before public officials and some letters to the latter. No indices; for which see Volume A. Translations.
  • BOX 2:
    Volume A. Translations. First and Second Courts of the City of [LA]. Dates: 1825-1850. With index of names and index of ranches, missions, pueblos, and vessels for both Transcriptions and Translations.
  • BOX 3
    Volume 1. Translations. Dates: 1833-1849. This volume consists of rulings on petitions submitted to city officials, letters to the same, and proclamations of United States military officers. With index of names and index of ranches.
  • BOX 4:
    Volume 2. Transcriptions. Dates: 1840-1850. This volume contains petitions, rulings, testimonies, letters, lists of shipping goods, proclamations of United States military officers. No indices; for which see Volume 2. Translations.
  • BOX 5:
    Volume 2. Translations. Dates: 1840-1850. With index of names, and index of pueblos, ranches, and vessels for both Transcriptions and Translations.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Clay Stalls
Date Prepared:
© 2012
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid created by Clay Stalls. Date of source: February 25, 2013.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University.

Terms of access:

Materials in the Department of Archives and Special Collections may be subject to copyright. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, Loyola Marymount University does not claim ownership of the copyright of any materials in its collections. The user or publisher must secure permission to publish from the copyright owner. Loyola Marymount University does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or of publication rights held by the original author or artists or his/her heirs, assigns, or executors.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Series number, Box and Folder number, WPA Transcriptions and Translations of Los Angeles City Archives Records, CSLA-25, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University.

Location of this collection:
1 LMU Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659, US
Contact:
(310) 338-5710
Special.Collections@lmu.edu
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