Small Mexican Collections, 1787-1921

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Summary

Title:
Small Mexican Collections,
Dates:
1787-1921
Creators:
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Small Mexican Collections, Mss2, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Background

Biographical / historical:

The Clifton Hite collection consists of legal documents pertaining to the 19th century ownership and legal disposition of the Santa Gertrudis Rancho, San Jose del Cabo, Baja Calif. The Rancho was evidently owned or claimed at various times by Gertrudis Carrillo (1859), Jose Ceseña (1877) and members of the Bello family (1879). Items in the collections are written in Spanish. [H675]

George C. Hunt was a representative of American mining and petroleum interests in Mexico at the time of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). This collection consists of Hunt's observations (c1925) on military, business and political matters in Mexico during that period. [Ms2.H941]

General Jose Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana was President of Mexico and Commander of the Army during Mexico's war with the United States (1846-1848). His letter in this collection thanks Don Juan Valdivia for providing lumber in defense of a possible Spanish invasion (1829). [Ms2.S331]

Also in the Small Mexican Collections is an assortment of 19th century legal and political documents, many of which pertain to Mexican relations with the United States and with Spain. [Ms2.M611]

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Physical description:
0.1 linear ft.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by Don Walker
Date Prepared:
© 1998
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: October 1998.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Small Mexican Collections, Mss2, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Location of this collection:
University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library
Stockton, CA 95211, US
Contact:
(209) 946-2404
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