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Documentos para la Historia de California: Alviso Family Papers, 1817-1850
BANC MSS C-B 66
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Collection Title: Documentos para la historia de California: Alviso family papers
Date (inclusive): 1817-1850
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 66
Extent:
Originals: 1 box and 4 oversize folders
Copies: partial microfilm reel (224 exp.); negative (Rich. 88:2) and positive
1 digital objects (1 image)
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Papers collected by H.H. Bancroft for his history of California. Primarily Alviso family documents relating to the sale of
cattle, tallow and hides and to early government in San Jose. Also included are miscellaneous papers of Juan B.R. Cooper,
M.G. Vallejo, Thomas O. Larkin and James McKinlay.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in Spanish
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Documentos para la Historia de California: Alviso Family Papers, BANC MSS C-B 66, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley
Digital reproductions of selected items are available.
These papers, collected by H. H. Bancroft for his history of California, consist mainly of Alviso family documents, many of
them relating to the sale of cattle, tallow and hides, and to early government in San Jose. Also included are some miscellaneous
papers of John B. R. Cooper, Mariano G. Vallejo, Thomas O. Larkin and James McKinlay.
Bancroft's numbering and arrangement of the papers, roughly chronological, have been retained. A list of the documents is
included, followed by a list of correspondents, addressees (other than members of the Alviso family), and/or signers of documents.