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Archives of the Indies (selected California)
mssFAC 1493  
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Administration Information
  • Scope and Content
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Archives of the Indies (selected California)
    Dates: 1597-1776
    Collection Number: mssFAC 1493
    Extent: 11 boxes
    Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department
    The Huntington Library
    1151 Oxford Road
    San Marino, California 91108
    Phone: (626) 405-2203
    Fax: (626) 449-5720
    Email: reference@huntington.org
    URL: http://www.huntington.org
    Abstract: The collection consists of some 300 items totaling approximately 2,300 pages of facsimiles, valuable for California history from 1597 to 1776.
    Language of Material: The records are in Spanish.

    Administration Information

    Access

    Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, please go to following web site .

    Publication Rights

    The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

    Preferred Citation

    FAC 1493, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

    Acquisition Information

    Gift from John D. Wright, July 1944.

    Scope and Content

    The collection consists of some 300 items totaling approximately 2,300 pages of facsimiles, valuable for California history from 1597 to 1776. There are the accounts of Vizcaíno's two voyages of exploration along the Western coast in 1596 to Baja California and in 1602 as far north as Cape Mendocino; the incident of the discovery of silver in Arizonac in 1736, which led to a northwest extension of the Spanish conquest; the diaries of members of different expeditions which initiated the occupation and settlement of Alta California; the establishment of and administration of missions, etc. The material for the period 1763-1777 dovetails with the Huntington's manuscripts of the Visitador General of New Spain, Don José de Gálvez, Marqués de la Sonora, a collection acquired by the Huntington in 1925 and consisting of correspondence, reports, orders, and miscellaneous documents relative to California and Mexico.

    Arrangement

    Arranged chronologically.

    Indexing Terms

    Personal Names

    Vizcaíno, Sebastián, 1550?-1628?

    Subjects

    Missions, Spanish--California
    Silver mines and mining--Arizona

    Geographic Areas

    California--History
    Pacific Coast--Discovery and exploration
    Spain--Discovery and exploration

    Genre

    Facsimiles (reproductions)