Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Aguilar Family Papers
- Dates:
- 1833-1925, bulk 1856-1891
- Creators:
- Aguilar family.
- Abstract:
- This small group of 32 items contains personal and business papers, in Spanish, of landowner Blas Aguilar (born 1808) and members of his family, chiefly in San Juan Capistrano, San Diego, and Los Angeles, California.
- Extent:
- 32 items in 1 box
- Language:
- Spanish.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item]. Aguilar Family Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This small group of material contains personal and business papers of Blas Aguilar and members of his family. It consists of correspondence, an untitled poem, a play "Coloquio de los Pastores," an account book, a promissory note, receipts, mortgages, and deeds. There are also baptismal records from the San Juan Capistrano and San Luis Rey missions. All of the items are in Spanish. It deals with San Juan Capistrano, San Diego, and Los Angeles, California. There are a few letters written from Arizona and Nevada.
- Biographical / historical:
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Blas Aguilar was born in San Diego in 1808. He was, for a time, majordomo of the San Diego Mission and in 1841 acquired some land at San Juan Capistrano, where he made his home.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Francisco Aguilar, San Juan Capistrano Mission, May 1938.
- Arrangement:
-
Items chiefly arranged alphabetically by author.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Land tenure -- California -- Los Angeles
County.
Land tenure -- California -- Orange County.
Land tenure -- California -- San Diego County.
Baptismal registers -- California -- 19th century.
Deeds -- California -- 19th century.
Financial records -- California -- 19th century.
Letters (correspondence) -- California -- 19th century.
Manuscripts -- California -- 19th century.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2013
- Date Encoded:
- Machine readable finding aid encoded by Diann Benti in November 2016 from PDF finding aid originally in the Huntington Digital Library.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
- Terms of access:
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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:
-
[Identification of item]. Aguilar Family Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
- Location of this collection:
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1151 Oxford RoadSan Marino, CA 91108, US
- Contact:
- (626) 405-2191