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  1. Bill of Sale

    Gabriel Antonio de Vildósola purchased the Santa Barbara Ranch from Nicolás Romero, son of Diego Romero, the year before the Pima uprising, a coordinated attack on Spanish missions and settlements was carried out by O'odham dissenters The collection ...

    castanoe - 2022-02-08 15:39

  2. Papers of L. Marguerite Collier

    Correspondence, photographs, song and music books, sheet music, plays and musicals, and books, programs, articles and brochures on folk dance and music chiefly relating to Collier's work as first grade and music teacher at Carrillo School and ...

    castanoe - 2022-02-11 16:42

  3. Morales de Escárcega Collection

    Books, manuscripts, and broadsides, and photographs focused on the study and understanding of Mexican history. ...

    blakisto - 2022-03-07 13:25

  4. Documents Relating to San Juan de la Boquillas y Nogales Land Grant

    Land originally granted to Captain Ygnacio Elias Gonzales and Juan Nepomucino Felix, included are deeds of sale 1879-1899 and documents filed with Court of Private Land Claims concerning rights to this land in 1891. ...

    castanoe - 2022-03-10 14:15

  5. Reyes Report

    The collection includes a typescript translation of report, written by Spanish Franciscan Antonio de los Reyes, on existing conditions in the missions of Sonora administered by the Fathers of the Propagation of the Faith College of the Holy Cross in ...

    castanoe - 2022-03-11 13:44

  6. Relación de las misiones que la compania tiene en el Reyno y Provincias de la Nueva Vizcaya en la Nueva Espana

    Juan Ortiz Zapata was a Jesuit Visitador to the missions in northern Mexico in 1678. This collection contains a photocopy of the Spanish transcription and English translation of the original documents of Zapata’s missions in Reyno and provinces of New ...

    castanoe - 2022-04-13 17:36

  7. Frances Douglas Papers

    Correspondence, diaries, articles, stories, clippings, memorabilia, photographs, and translations of mostly unpublished works by Spanish-language writers. ...

    castanoe - 2022-04-25 11:34

  8. Philipp Segesser Papers

    Philipp Segesser was a Jesuit missionary in Sonora, Mexico. The collection contains papers relating to money owed to Segesser while Visitador-General of Sonora, Mexico, by Captain Francisco Xavier de Miranda. Accompanying the papers are supporting records ...

    castanoe - 2022-06-30 16:28

  9. Pedro de Arriquibar Letters

    The collection contains two holograph letters, dated Aug. 6 and Dec. 6, 1796, from Pedro de Arriquibar, chaplain of the Presidio de San Agustín del Tucson, to Bishop Fray Francisco Rouset de Jesus, Diocese of Sonora, Mexico. The letters provide a brief ...

    castanoe - 2022-07-15 12:07

  10. Jacobo Sedelmayr letters and reports

    Letters and reports, from Sedelmayr to Christóbal de Escobar y Llamas, Juan Antonio Balthassar, Philipp Segesser, and Andrés Xavier García, relating to conditions in Pimeria Alta at the missions and surrounding areas. Includes reports on explorations to ...

    castanoe - 2022-07-25 14:24

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