Guide to the Henry Raup Wagner Collection
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2008-01-14
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Guide to the Henry Raup Wagner Collection
1920/1983
Special Collections & University Archives
Overview of the Collection
Collection Title: Henry Raup Wagner Collection
Dates: 1920-1983
Identification: MS-0264
Creator:
Wagner, Henry R. (Henry Raup), 1862-1957
Physical Description: 1.67 linear ft
Language of Materials:
English
Repository:
Special Collections & University Archives
5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050
San Diego, CA, 92182-8050
URL: http://library.sdsu.edu/scua
Email: scref@rohan.sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-6791
Biographical Information:
Henry Raup Wagner will be most remembered as a successful business executive and a producer of bibliographical and historical
texts. Wagner was born on September 27, 1862 in a suburb of Philadelphia. He obtained an undergraduate degree from Yale College
and a law degree from Yale Law School. After one year in practice, he left the law field and pursued the mining business as
a vocation, eventually becoming part of American Smelting and Refining Company.
Wagner traveled extensively in Latin America and Europe until he met his wife, Blanche Henrietta Collet. They settled in Berkeley,
California, the area in which they resided for the remainder of their lives.
Throughout the course of a half-century, Wagner produced over one hundred scholarly bibliographical and historical studies
chiefly on Latin and Western America. One of his most famous publications was
Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements. Aside from the volumes which he published, Wagner also amassed an extensive collection of books and documents of his own.
Since his death in 1957, most of his collection has been donated to the libraries at Yale, Brown, Berkeley, and other universities.
Access Terms
This collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Genre/Form of Material:
Personal Papers
Publications
Geographic Name:
Latin America -- History
West (U.S.) -- History
Personal Name:
Wagner, Henry Raup, 1862-1957 -- Archives
Wagner, Henry Raup, 1862-1957 -- Corresopondence
Topical Term:
Historians -- United States -- Biography -- Sources
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Use:
The copyright interests in these materials have not been transferred to San Diego State University. Copyright resides with
the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. The nature of historical archival and manuscript collections
is such that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine. Requests for permission to publish must be
submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. When granted, permission
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available
for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including
but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
Conditions Governing Access:
This collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation:
Identification of item, folder title, box number, Henry Raup Wagner Collection, Special Collections and University Archives,
Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, articles, journals, and publications about Henry Raup Wagner.
Box 1, Folder 1
1968
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Bancroft Library correspondence lists of material sent to Bancroft Library of UC Berkeley
Box 1, Folder 2
September 27, 1917 - April 5, 1957
Scope and Contents
John Carter Brown Library correspondence, 20 letters primarily to/from Henry Raup Wagner to the library staff of Brown University
Box 1, Folder 3
ca 1920 - 50
Scope and Contents
Cowan, RE correspondence, 25 letters primarily form Cowan to Henry Raup Wagner
Box 1, Folder 4
Scope and Contents
Cowan, "Recollections of R.E. Cowan," a 30 page piece written by Henry Raup Wagner.
Box 1, Folder 5
August 8, 1973 - May 6, 1974
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Drake, correspondence, 30 letters primarily to/from Ruth Axe concerning a project on Drake.
Box 1, Folder 6
October 30, 1918 - April 11, 1961
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Grinnell, GB correspondence, 10 letters primarily to/from Henry Raup Wagner concerning an article by Grinnell titled "Who
were the Padouca?
Box 1, Folder 7
September 8, 1932 - April 16, 1983
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Hammond, GP correspondence, 45 letters primarily to/from Ruth Axe, concerning the Bancroft Library of UC Berkeley.
Box 1, Folder 8
October 29, 1951 - November 11, 1966
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Horrocks, WB correspondence, 10 letters primarily to/from Ruth Axe and to/from Henry Raup Wagner.
Box 1, Folder 9
March 27, 1922 - September 1, 1956
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Morison, SE correspondence, 10 letters primarily to/from Henry Raup Wagner.
Box 1, Folder 10
March 31, 1952 - April 1, 1953
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Raup, WW correspondence, 15 letters primarily to/from Henry Raup Wagner.
Box 1, Folder 11
November 12, 1943 - April 1, 1953
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Rolle, A correspondence, 20 letters primarily to/from Henry Raup Wagner.
Box 1, Folder 12
November 3, 1952 - July 30, 1963
Scope and Contents
Streeter, TW correspondence, 60 letters primarily to/from Ruth Axe and to/from Henry Raup Wagner.
Box 1, Folder 13
October 15, 1954 - October 16, 1962
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Wheat, Carl correspondence, 11 letters primarily to/from Henry Raup Wagner.
Box 1, Folder 14
October 15, 1954 - October 16, 1962
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Yale University correspondence letters primarily to/from Ruth Axe to the library staff at Yale University.
Box 1, Folder 15
Correspondence, miscellaneous
Box 1, Folder 16
Scope and Contents
Lists: Ruth Axe Collection list given to UC Los Angeles, unpublished articles list, and a list of persons sent Henry Raup
Wagner publications.
Box 1, Folder 17
ca. 1957 - 58
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"Last Will and Testament" correspondence letters primarily to/from Ruth Axe to Maggie Clausen and the law offices of Martin
and Camusi.
Box 1, Folder 18
Scope and Contents
"Last Will and Testaments" of Henry Raup Wager and Blanche C. Wagner.
Box 1, Folder 19
Scope and Contents
3 Address notebooks
Box 1, Folder 21
Expense ledger
ca. 1928 - 34
Box 1, Folder 23
Expense ledger
ca. 1974 - 78
Box 1, Folder 24
ca. September 25, 1920
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Letter from Gertrude E. Robson, Librarian of the John Carter Brown, to Henry Raup Wagner
Box 1, Folder 25
ca. 1937
Scope and Contents
University of California Press Announcement of Wagner's Cartography of the Northwest Coast.
Box 1, Folder 26
ca. September 29, 1947
Scope and Contents
Letter from Dorothy Huggings to Muir Dawson
Box 1, Folder 27
ca. May 19, 1949
Scope and Contents
"Notes-on the California maps-" authorship undetermined
Box 1, Folder 28
ca. March 18, 1945
Scope and Contents
Review of Wagner's Rise of Hernando Cortes by Francis P. Farquhar, in The S. F. Chronicle.
Box 1, Folder 29
Sixteenth-Century Mexican Imprints
ca 1925
Box 1, Folder 30
The Portolan Atlases of American Interest in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
ca 1929
Box 1, Folder 31
Three Accoutns of the Expedition of Fernando Cortes, Printed in Germany Between 1520 and 1522-contributed with Introduction.
ca May 1929
Scope and Contents
Reprint from The Hispanic American Historical Review, volume IX, no. 2,
Box 1, Folder 32
Translation of a Letter from the Archbishop of Conenza to Petrus de Acosta-contributed, with an Introduction by...
ca August 1929
Scope and Contents
From The Hispanic American Historical Review, volume IX, no. 3
Box 1, Folder 33
Fray Benito do la Sierra's Account of the Hezeta Expedition to the Northwest Coast in 1775
ca. 1930
Scope and Contents
Introduction and notes by Henry Raup Wagner. Reprinted in the Quarterly of the California Historical Society (autographed
by author)
Box 1, Folder 34
Biblio-cartography
ca. March 1932
Scope and Contents
Reprinted from The Pacific Historical Review
Box 1, Folder 35
A Map of Cabrillo's Discoveries.
ca. March 1932
Scope and Contents
Reprinted from the Quarterly of the California Historical Society
Box 1, Folder 36
An Exploration of the Coast of Southern California in 1782
ca. 1935
Scope and Contents
In the Historical Society of Southern California, volume XVII, no. 4
Box 1, Folder 37
New Mexico Spanish Press from New Mexico Historical Review
January 1937
Scope and Contents
volume XII, no. 1
Box 1, Folder 38
Creation of Rights of Sovereignty through Symbolic Acts.
ca. December 1938
Scope and Contents
Reprinted by permission from The Pacific Historical Review
Box 1, Folder 39
Commercial Printers of San Francisco from 1851 - 1880. Portland, Main: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press
1939
Box 1, Folder 41
Early Franciscan Activities on the West Coast.
ca. 1941
Scope and Contents
Reprinted from the Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California (autographed)
Box 1, Folder 42
The Lost First Letter of Cortes.
November 1941
Scope and Contents
Reprinted from the Hispanic American Historical Review, volume XXI, no. 4
Box 1, Folder 43
Early Silver Mining in New Spain.
ca. June 1942
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Duplicate from Revista de historia de America
Box 1, Folder 44
Aztecans in Spain in 1522 - 23
ca. July 1942
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From The Masterkey, volume XVI, no. 4
Box 1, Folder 45
Bernal Diaz del Castillo
ca. May 1945
Scope and Contents
Reprinted from The Hispanic American Historical Review, volume XXV, no. 2
Box 1, Folder 46
The Last Will of Pedro de Alvarado from California Historical Society Quarterly, volume XXV, no. 4
ca. December 1946
Scope and Contents
2 copies
Box 1, Folder 47
Additions to the Manuscript Atlases of Baltista Aqnese from Imago Mvndi IV.
ca. 1948
Box 1, Folder 48
Marco Polo's Narrative becomes Propaganda to inspire Colon from Imago Mvndi: A Review of Early Cartography. Stockholm, Sweden
ca. 1950
Box 1, Folder 49
A Map of Sancho Gutierrez of 1551
ca. 1951
Scope and Contents
Reprinted from Imago Mvndi: A Review of Early Cartography. Edited by Leo Bagrow, Stockhom, Sweden
Box 1, Folder 50
Hispanic Americana in the John Carter Brown Library
ca. 1951
Scope and Contents
Offprint from Essays Honoring Lawrence C. Wroth
Box 1, Folder 51
Remembrances of Jose Toribio Medina
ca. 1952
Scope and Contents
Reprinted from The Inter-American Review of Bibliography, volume 11, no. 3
Box 1, Folder 52
Some Phases of French Society in San Francisco in the Fifties
ca. June 1953
Scope and Contents
Introduction by Henry Raup Wagner. Reprinted from California Historical Society Quarterly, volume XXXII, no. 2
Box 1, Folder 53
Henri Ternaux Compans: The First Collector of Hispanic-Americana
ca. 1954
Scope and Contents
Reprinted from Inter-American Review of Bibliography, volume IV, no. 4
Box 1, Folder 54
Obituary by TW Streeten from the American Antiquarian Society Proceedings
ca. 1957
Box 1, Folder 55
Antiquarian Bookman: The Specialist Book Trade Weekly
ca. May 13, 1957
Scope and Contents
articles about Henry Raup Wagner
Box 1, Folder 56
The Last Visit with Henry Raup Wagner by Carey S. Bliss. Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
ca. Summer 1957
Box 1, Folder 57
In Memoriam from The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, volume XXXIX, no. 2
ca. June 1957
Box 1, Folder 58
Henri Ternaux Compans: A Bibliography
ca. July/September 1957
Scope and Contents
Reprinted from Inter-American Review of Bibliography, volume VII, no. 3
Box 1, Folder 59
A Pope's Blunder: Henry Raup Wagner on Cano and Llorente, from UCLA Librarian, volume 11, no. 6
December 18, 1957
Box 1, Folder 60
Wagner Memorial Award from California Historical Society, volume XVIII, no. 7
ca. September 1966
Box 1, Folder 61
More Published Writings of Henry Raup Wagner, Including Tributes and Bibliographies by Ruth Frey Axe.
ca. September 1968
Scope and Contents
From The California Historical Society Quarterly
Box 1, Folder 62
Christmas Greeting Card-"A Christmas greeting for Dorothy-from Lawton"
n.d.