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Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

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  1. Records of the Compania Constructora Richardson, S.A.

    Photographs along with legal papers and descriptive material documenting the company projects from the excavation stages to completed dams. ...

    castanoe - 2014-03-10 17:09

  2. Mexican Government Documents Regarding the Borderlands Campaign Against the Apache Indians

    The collection documents relations between the Mexico and the United States during the mid to late 1800's.  Of particular importance is the impact of Apache movements through Sonora and Arizona.  Documents includes administrative, diplomatic and ...

    castanoe - 2014-09-30 15:40

  3. Papers of Fay Jackson Smith

    This collection contains research notes and a manuscript for Father Kino in Arizona. The research notes include 3x5 cards, as well as notes written in Spanish. Additionally this collection contains materials regarding Smith's Captain of the Phantom ...

    castanoe - 2015-07-21 09:46

  4. W. J. McGee Photograph Collection

    Photographs, 1894-1895, originals and copy prints, mostly taken by William Dinwiddie (1894-1895), with some taken by J. W. Mitchell (1895) of two expeditions, led by W. J. McGee, to study the Tohono O’odham Indians of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, ...

    castanoe - 2014-03-10 15:57

  5. Willis P. Haynes Photograph Collection

    Cabinet card photographs, ca. 1886-1989, taken in southern Arizona by photographer Willis P. Haynes. Images include Santa Rita Land & Mining Co. ranching activities, Tumacácori and San Xavier Missions, and Nogales, Arizona and Tucson, Arizona views, ...

    castanoe - 2014-03-10 15:56

  6. Cartas y Informes

    Photocopies of typed transcriptions of 13 letters and reports written by missionaries in Pimería Alta, Sonora, and Chihuahua, from 1768 to 1816. Some letters are addressed to their superiors at Querétaro; others are to include Captain Juan Bautiste de ...

    castanoe - 2016-11-22 10:59

  7. Mrs. A. S. Addis Photograph Collection

    Thirteen photographs, ca. 1875-1890, primarily of scenes in Chihuahua, Mexico. Most are images of Serrano and Tarahumara Indians particularly women and domestic work. There is also one image of prospectors on Phoenix street, dated 1887 ...

    castanoe - 2019-07-10 16:47

  8. Derrotero de los Padres Fray Francisco Atanacio Domínguez, and Fr. Silvestre Vélez, de Escalante, en sus exploraciónes, desde las missiones de Zuñy del Nuevo Mexico, hasta las ymmediaciones de Monte Rey de California

    Collection includes eighteenth-century copy of the diary kept by Vélez de Escalante on his expedition with Dominguez through the four corners area of the American Southwest, July 29, 1776 to Jan. 2, 1777. Although unsuccessful in their mission to find a ...

    castanoe - 2020-08-26 10:07

  9. Diario, de las ultimas peregrinaciones del Padre Fr. Francisco Garcés, hasta la provincia del Moqui, y noticias de varias nuevas naciones exparcidas hasta el Rio Colorado en California

    Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés (1738-1781) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary, explorer of the Southwest United States, and priest at San Xavier del Bac, near Tucson, AZ, beginning in 1768. Eighteenth century manuscript copy of Padre Francisco ...

    castanoe - 2020-08-26 10:12

  10. W.C. Holden Expedition Papers

    William Curry Holden received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas. In 1929, he joined the faculty of Texas Technological College to teach history and anthropology. He remained there for more than four decades, becoming chairman ...

    trentp - 2015-03-18 16:27

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