Finding aid for the Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico collection 0518
Diann Benti
USC Libraries Special Collections
2022 May
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico collection
Identifier/Call Number: 0518
Physical Description:
.44 Linear Feet
1 box and 1 oversize folder
Date (inclusive): 1863-1969
Abstract: This small collection chiefly contains handwritten and printed governmental documents related to the reign of Emperor Maximilian
I of Mexico from 1864 to 1867, as well as two photographs of Maximilian and his wife Carlota and later 20th century newspaper
clippings.
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian.
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The two glass plate negatives were purchased from Howard Karno Books, March 30, 2003.
Biographical / Historical
Austrian archduke Maximilian I (Fernando Maximilano in Spanish) (1832-1867) was the only emperor of the Second Mexican Empire,
reigning from 1864 until he was executed on June 19, 1867. He was married to Carlota (1840-1927), Empress consort of Mexico.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder no. or item name], Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico collection, Collection no. 0518, Boeckmann Center for Iberian
and Latin American Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Scope and Contents
This small collection chiefly contains handwritten and printed governmental documents related to the reign of Emperor Maximilian
I of Mexico from 1864 to 1867. Among the items are two 1865 orders signed "Maximiliano"; bound and loosed manuscript and printed
government documents dating from 1863-1867, with a number of printed circulars and broadsides; and contemporary manuscript
copies of documents. There are also miscellaneous 20th century newspaper clippings about Maximilian and his wife, Carlota,
and two photographic portraits, as well as two glass plate negatives, circa 1864, of Maximilian and Carlota.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections 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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mexico -- History -- Archival resources
Mexico -- History -- European intervention, 1861-1867
Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1861-1867
Broadsides (notices)
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Glass plate negatives
Photographs
Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 1832-1867 -- Archives
Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 1832-1867 -- Photographs
Carlota, Empress, consort of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 1840-1927 -- Photographs
Box 1, Folder 1
[Order to Sub-Secretario Cesar]
1865-10-24
Box 1, Folder 2
[Order to Sub-Secretario de Hacienda]
1865-11-25
Box 1, Folder 3
[Volume of printed and manuscript government documents]
1863-1870
Scope and Contents
Printed and manuscript government documents bound together, 1863-1870, including many printed announcements from Rómulo Díaz
de la Vega. Accompanied by Folder containing a manuscript document: "Sitio de Querétaro. Prision Procesa y Muerte de Maximiliano"
… 1867.
Box 1, Folder 4
Los ultimos dias del imperio megicanos [sic Mexicanos]
[1867]
Box 1, Folder 5
Noticias copiadas de los periodicos acerca del fusilamiento en Queretaro del emperador des Megico [sic Mexico] Maximiliano
el dia 19 de Junio del ano 1867
1867-06-19
Box 1, Folder 6
Correspondencia de Trieste, en que se dan noticias del informado emperador de Megico [sic Mexico] Maximiliano
1867-07-13
Box 1, Folder 7
[Printed notice: Important advice to foreigners in English, German, Spanish, and French]
[circa 1863]
Box 1, Folder 8
Ministerio de Hacienda ... [Broadside decree of Maximiliano, Emperador de Mexico with printed signature of M. de Castillo,
El Subsecretario de Hacienda]
1865-02-08
Box 1, Folder 9
Mexico, El Imperio y La Intervencion [volume]
1867
Box 1, Folder 10
Clippings
1918, 1959-1969
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous clippings, chiefly in Spanish, about Maximiliano and Carlota.
Oversize-folder 1
Carlota [portrait by "J. Malovich, Trieste"]
[circa 1864]
Oversize-folder 1
Fernando Maximiliano [portrait by "J. Malovich, Trieste"]
[circa 1864]
Box 1, Folder 11
[Use photocopies of portraits of Maximiliano and Carlota]
Box 1, Folder 12
[Carlota portrait by "J. Malovich, Trieste"]
[circa 1864]
Box 1, Folder 13
[Fernando Maximiliano portrait by "J. Malovich, Trieste"]
[circa 1864]
