Preliminary Guide to the Philip W. Powell Collection
Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo, latest revision Nov. 24, 2010
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Preliminary Guide to the Philip W. Powell Collection, ca. 1930s-1980
Collection number: UArch FacP 18
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Nov. 24, 2010
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2011 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Philip W. Powell Collection
Dates: ca. 1930s-1980
Collection number: UArch FacP 18
Creator:
Powell, Philip Wayne
Collection Size:
ca. 28 linear feet
(17 document boxes, 11 cartons, and 33 oversize boxes)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Abstract: The collection contains mainly drafts of writings and research files including copies of 16th-18th century Spanish and Mexican
government documents, of a UCSB Latin American scholar.
Physical location: SRLF.
Languages:
English, Spanish
Access Restrictions
None. Collection is stored off-site, advance notice required for retrieval.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Philip W. Powell Collection. UArch FacP 18. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Some donation or purchase of copies, ca 1960s-1970s; also donation by Philip Powell's widow, Maria L. Vanegas-Guarin de Powell,
1989, and donation from John C. Moran, 2008.
Biography
Philip Wayne Powell was born October 30, 1913 in Chino, California. He joined the UCSB faculty in 1948 and continued to teach
at Santa Barbara until 1981. He is known for his research in Hispanic civilization. Powell died September 17, 1987, in Santa
Barbara, California.
Scope and Content of Collection
Arrangement
The collection contains the following series:
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General. Includes: Archive/Library Files (material relating to Powell's research in institutions in Spain and Latin America, as well
as files relating to research ideas and projects); Correspondence; Lectures and Talks. Boxes 1-2.
-
Research and Writings. Boxes 3-10.
-
Research Files. Mainly copies and transcriptions of documents from Archives in Spain and Latin America. Boxes 11-61.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Powell, Philip Wayne
Civilization, Hispanic.
Archive/Library Files
Scope and Content Note
Includes material relating to Powell's research in institutions in Spain and Latin America, as well as files relating to research
ideas and projects
Box 1
Archivo Historico de Hacienda (transcriptions of documents ca. 1505-1526)
Box 1
Archivo General de Simancas (mainly research notes)
Box 1
Spanish Archives, 1974 (includes notebooks dated through 1980; relating to documents seen at the archives)
Box 1
Academia de la Historia - Madrid, ca. 1938-1977 (includes correspondence, lists and receipts apparently for microfilm and
copies)
Box 1
Archivo del Tribunal, Guadalajara, ca. 1938-1939 (includes papers by Powell about the archive)
Box 2
1972-1976:
seven TLS from Powell to John C. Moran [gift of John C. Moran]
Box 5
Cuenta del Capitan Francisco Beltran: Protector de los Indios Chichimecos... (typewritten transcript)
Box 5
Guns of San Juan and M.E. (Martin Enriquez)
Box 6
Files re guns, battles with English, ca. 1568-1590 (includes copies, transcripts, notes possibly arranged by chapter for book
- some folders have letters M. E.)
Box 8
Mexico's Miguel Caldera Ponzona en las Nieves (typescript draft of a novel based on the writings of Capitan Felipe de Velasco, 1573-1634)
Box 9
Spain and the Western World
Box 9
Spanish American Literature
Box 9
Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting United States Relations with the Hispanic World
Box 10
War and Peace on the North Mexican Frontier: A Documentary Record
Box 10
Writing Ideas and Current Writing
Copies of Documents
Scope and Content Note
[copyflo, photostats, etc.]. Powell, in his introduction to
War and Peace..., talks about the documents he collected and his intention to publish a multi-volume series of transcriptions, Volume I being
The Crescendo of the Chichimeca War (1550-1585); [and the only one actually published?]. Also according to the introduction "...
Soldiers, Indians and Silver ... tells much of this frontier story and provides the historical context into which the individual documents can be fitted;
it provides references and notes which are keys to use and understanding of the records which follow. In effect, the historical
sources contained in this and the oncoming volumes constitute a very large Appendix which adds much detail to the broader
story told in
Soldiers, Indians and Silver ... The plan of publication is generally chronological, and very specifically so within the various categories. Inevitably,
however, the establishment of certain categories of documents on the basis of thematic unity causes some chronological overlapping...
Volume II of this series, to be titled:
Spanish Captains and Soldiers on the Chichimeca Frontier, will contain enlistment contracts of soldiery engaged in the Chichimeca War, and the records of services of certain Spanish
military leaders on that frontier. Volume III, to be titled
The Chichimeca War and the Real Caja of Zacatecas, will contain detailed accounts of frontier war expenditures as revealed in the Royal Treasure office (Real Caja) of Zacatecas,
the hub of administrative management of the Chichimeca War and the of the pacification program which ended it. These accounts
will be of the years 1580-1583…. Beyond these three volumes, it is expected that several more will be printed. These will
include, in addition to Zacatecas treasury records of the 1590s, vice-regal correspondence concerning war and pacification
and, above all, several volumes containing the most significant single document of early American frontier history. This is
the massive frontier investigation of 1602-1603, ordered by Viceroy the Conde de Monterrey for purposes of examining the action
and expenditures of the great pacification of the Chichimeca peoples which was carried out primarily in the last decade of
the sixteenth century. This 3,400 page record is briefly treated on pages 220-221 of
Soldiers, Indians and Silver and somewhat more fully in my 'Peacemaking on North America’s First Frontiers,'
The Americas, 16 (January 1960), 221-250." (xxiv-xxvii)
Archivos General de Indias, Sevilla [AGI]
Scope and Content Note
List of copies of documents requested, dated 22 Feb. 1977 and the copies, which are from the following record groups, most
apparently ca 1580s-1600s; also some transcripts from copies of the documents.
Contaduria 851 - Cuentas de Protectores de Yndios
Box 21: 5-6
Guelva, Diego de (1590-1594)
Box 21: 11-12
Anda, Pedro de (1590-1601)
Box 22: 3-4
Duarte, Gaspar (1592-1597)
Box 22: 5-6
Saldivar, Juan de - protector at Colotlan and elsewhere (1597-1600)
Box 22: 7-8
Urdiñola, Francisco de (1592-1601)
Box 22: 9-10
Fuenmayor, Ortiz de (1592-1601)
Box 23: 3-8
Hija, Juan de la (1592-1601)
Box 24: 1-2
Murga, Pedro de (1592-1603)
Box 24: 3-4
Saldivar, Vicente de (1593-1601)
Box 24: 5-6
Avila Carrillo, Pedro de (1598)
Box 24: 13-14
Lizaldi, Martin de (1597-1601)
Box 25: 1-2
Nuñez de Miranda, Diego (1598)
Box 25: 3-4
Vera, Lorenzo de (1599-1600)
Box 25: 7-8
Rodarte, Mateo - at Colotlan (1600-1601)
Box 25: 9-10
Figueroa, Lorenzo de (1599-1601)
Box 25: 13-14
Perez de Alanis, Juan (1599-1601)
Box 25: 15-16
Garcia, Juan Batista (1601-1602)
Box 26: 1-2
Avila, Francisco de - Santa Maria (SLP) (1602)
Contaduria 851: Cuentas: Proveedores; Pagadores
Box 26: 5-9
Velasco, Diego de – Proveedor General (1592-1594)
Box 26: 10
Monroy, Juan de - Proveedor (1594-1598)
Box 27: 6-8
Montalvo, Juan de - Proveedor (1598-1601)
Box 28: 1-6
Cuaderno de Diferentes Papales... (1592-1602)
Box 12
1536-1584
Scope and Content Note
AGI Mexico mostly; cross-referenced to reel and item #; seems to be straight chronological order, with documents from different
archives or different record groups interfiled; in one folder are a legal pad and steno pad, with Powell's handwriting, which
appears to be same handwriting as on the folders.
1570s-1590s
Scope and Content Note
Seems to be arranged by record group as follows
Archivos General de Indias (AGI), Sevilla
Box 14
1581-1596
Scope and Content Note
Mostly from AGI Lima and AHH Legajo; straight chronological arrangement; a number of documents are Viceroy Enriquez to King,
so is this a chronological run relating to a given topic, and box 1 is a chronological run relating to a different topic?
Box 2 seems to only be partially sorted, and apparently not finished, by Powell.
Box 15
1597-1672
Scope and Content Note
Mostly AHH Legajo; arranged chronologically?
1581-1586
Scope and Content Note
Includes Coruna to King and Villamanrique to King; arranged chronologically?
Box 16
ca. 1550s-1790s
Scope and Content Note
Includes copies from Biblioteca Nacional, Lima; Archivos Municipal, Lima; Arch. Colonial, Prov. de Chiapas; Arch. Colonial,
Prov. de Guatemala; also AGG, with some notes clipped to copies and reference to roll #s.
Box 17
ca. 1570s-1619
Scope and Content Note
Mostly oversize copies.
Box 18
Archivo General de Simancas
Scope and Content Note
Copies of documents; includes material re Francisco Beltran.
Inquisition
Scope and Content Note
Mainly copies and transcriptions, including following folder titles.
Box 19
Procesos Contra los Oficiales de Huejotzingo
Box 19
Cuenta y Visita del Pueblo de Tiripitio, 1578
Box 19
Sanchez Baquero, Juan, 1571-1580
Box 19
Nots. Hernandez-Cortes (Archivo Nacional, Lima)
Box 19
Arch. Colonial, Prov. Chiapas
Box 19
Probanzas de Meriotos (AGG)
Microfilm
Scope and Content Note
No copying permitted.
Small Cans and Reels of 35mm Film
Scope and Content Note
This appears to be some of the film that copyflo prints came from; some cans have information on them such as: Contaduria
854, 54pp., Reel 110; AHH Mexico, Roll #5; Mexico 69, Reel #114; unclear how it corresponds to some of the boxed film.
Boxed 35mm Film
Scope and Content Note
Some of which is from the Bancroft Library and Huntington Library; also some with notations like UCSB NEG 101 thru 121 (copy
of smaller reels #s 101-121?) and UCSB Rolls 81-95 which, on inspection, appears to be the smaller rolls of tape spliced together;
there are several boxes of consecutively numbered rolls, with at least two numbered runs, but these are NOT duplicates, ie
roll #1 in one box is not the same document as roll #1 in the other box; perhaps one series of AGI and one of AHH?
Oversize Material
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically; copies of documents from Archivo General de Indias (Seville, Spain) and Archivo Historico de Hacienda
(Mexico City, Mexico). Documents have been drawn from the following sections of the archives: AGI - Mexico, AGI - Lima, AGI
- Patronato, AGI - Contaduria, AGI - Contratacion, AGI - Indiferente General, AHH - Tesoreria, AHH - Marina.
Box 61
Apr. 1597-Feb. 1598, Jan. 1604