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The Huntington Library
Department of Manuscripts
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Telephone: (818) 405-2125
Hours of Service: Mon.-Sat. 8:30 am-5:00 pm
Librarian: Dr. William Moffet
Access Policies: Available for scholarly research.
Inquiries: Curator of Manuscripts. Telephone: (818) 405-2204.
Collections: The Huntington Library does not collect copies from any other archive, but it has some acquired records by donation early in this century, all of them in the form of photographic copies. The concern of the collection was subject matter rather than archival provenance, but it does have three significant groups of material copied from Spanish archives:
Archives of the Indies Collection (approximately 250 pieces). Selected manuscripts on the exploration and settlement of California, the establishment and administration of the missions, etc. Included are the journals of Sebastián Vizcaíno, Miguel Constansó, Juan Crespi, Francisco Palau, and Juan Bautista de Anza, 1597-1776.
Dispatches of the Governor of Louisiana to the Captain General of Cuba.(1)
Karpinski Collection. Manuscript maps relating to the history of America before 1800 from the Archivo General de Indias, Biblioteca Nacional (Madrid), Ministry of War, Ministry of Marine, Palacio Liria (the Duque de Alba's residence in Madrid), and the Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid.(2)
In addition, there are scattered copies of documents that will be listed after the contents of the three aforementioned collections.
Archives of the Indies Collection
The reproductions consist of negative photographic prints from documents listed in Charles E. Chapman's Catalogue of Materials in the Archivo General de Indias for the History of the Pacific Coast and the American Southwest (Berkeley: University of California, 1919). The principal idea behind Chapman's choice of legajos was "the likelihood of their containing materials for California history" (p. 31). Chapman's Catalogue was made with the pre-1929 AGI classification.(3) This entry will follow the same order as Chapman"s Calendar of Items.(4)
Archivo General de Indias
Photographs
Total number of negative photographic prints: c. 250.
These reproductions are identifiable by Chapman numbers, although it appears that there are occasional errors in the attribution of numbers. The reader is advised to compare Chapman's description of each document with other AGI catalogues.
The following examples will give the reader an idea of selected documents available at the Huntington Library:
Chapman #1
Contents: [1597], Sebastian Vizcaíno(5) to the King (10 pp.).
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 67-3-27.
Chapman #6
Contents: 1602, México; "Relación del viaje y derroterro de los Naos que fueron al descubrimiento del Puerto de Acapulco a cargo del General Sebastian Bizcaino. Noviembre 8, 1603. México" (181 pp.). Includes 33 maps (32 in color) covering the Pacific Coast from Puerto de Natividad to Cape Mendocino.
Gobierno, Audiencia de México, 60-4-37.
Chapman #7
Contents: 1602, March 2, México; Conde de Monterrey puts Vizcaíno in charge of the discovery expedition (1 p.).
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 67-3-27.
Chapman #9
Contents: 1602, March 18, México; Conde de Monterrey's instructions to Vizcaíno (9 pp.).
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 67-3-27.
Chapman #10
Contents: March 31, 1602, México; Conde de Monterrey to the King (13 pp.).
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 67-3-27.
Chapman #13
Contents: 1602, December 28, Puerto de Monterrey; Sebastian Vizcaíno to the King (2 pp.).
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 67-3-27.
Chapman #15
Contents: 1606, August 19, San Lorenzo (El Escorial); The King, [by Juan de Cirica] to the Marquéz de Montesclaros (6 pp.). Instructions to the Viceroy: search for Vizacaíno and prepare to be sent to the Philippines.
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 67-3-27.
Chapman #177
Contents: 1737, January 7; Presidio de Santa Rosa de Corodeguache. Juan Bautista de Ansa to Benito Crespo (3 pp.).
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 67-4-45.
Chapman #178
Contents: 1737, January 14; Presidio Real de Santa Rossa de Corodeguache. [Juan Bautista de Ansa] to the Viceroy (8 pp.).
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 67-4-45.
Chapman #182
Contents: 1737, April 16; Puebla de los Angeles. Benito, Obispo de la Puebla to the King [Refers to a royal order of 1725 to penetrate New Mexico from Pimería Alta] (8 pp.).
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 67-4-45.
Chapman #212
Contents: 1739, May 20; Madrid. The [fiscal] to the Council of the Indies (15 pp.).
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 67-4-45.
Chapman #990
Contents: 1768, May 16; San Blas. Joseph de Gálvez, Miguel Constanzo, Antonio Favean de Quessada, Manuel Romero Cordero and Vizente Vila [Opinion of a junta called by Gálvez about the details of an expedition to Monterrey] (6 pp.).
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 104-3-3.
Chapman #1056
Contents: 1768, August 21; Real de Santa Ana. Joseph de Gálvez (#1) - "Decreto para que los Naturales de las dos misiones nombradas de La Pasión y San Luis Gonzaga se trasladen a la de nuestra Señora del Pilar, ó de Todos los Santos, y los de ésta a la de Santiago [Baja California] (6 pp.).
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 104-3-2.
Plus numbers: 1001, 1014, 1036, 1050, 1055, 1056 (see above), 1068, 1077, 1090, 1094, 1100,
1102, 1113, 1114, 1118, 1121, 1124, 1128, 1129, 1131, 1132, 1136, 1140, 1148, 1149, 1168,
1169, 1170, 1185, 1186, 1189, 1190, 1191, 1192, 1193, 1194, 1195, 1197, 1206, 1226, 1227,
1237, 1239, 1241, 1243, 1246, 1249, 1253, 1268, 1276, 1303, 1311, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1320,
1321, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1337, 1339, 1340, 1342, 1348, 1351, 1352, 1353, 1355, 1356, 1358,
1359, 1360, 1361, 1362, 1364, 1373, 1379, 1412, 1413, 1414, 1436, 1437, 1438, 1439, 1440,
1444, 1445, 1449, 1450, 1457, 1460, 1478, 1489, 1507, 1508, 1509, 1510, 1524, 1529, 1530,
1532, 1537, 1539, 1550, 1566, 1572, 1574, 1583, 1596a, 1602, 1744, 1759 (partial), 1761, 1768,
1769, 1792, 1813, 1820, 1872, 1882, 1910, 1915, 1925, 1939, 1956, 1995, 2037, 2039, 2040,
2044, 2045, 2050, 2060, 2063, 2064, 2082, 2083, 2086, 2089, 2113, 2152, 2165, 2172, 2173
(partial), 2214, 2254, 2304, 2388, 2396, 2405, 2425, 2441, 2445, 2446, 2454, 2503, 2506, 2507,
2533, 2543, 2554, 2560, 2567, 2602, 2603, 2605, 2606, 2608, 2624, 2625, 2626, 2627, 2628,
2640, 2642, 2648, 2656, 2658, 2659, 2679, 2706, 2707, 2708, 2715, 2718, 2735, 2737, 2740,
2762, 2764, 2785 (partial), 2840, 2861, 2862, 2865, 2867, 2870, 3042, 3077, 3155, 3156, 3175.
The reader can identify each number in Part II of Chapman's Catalogue, "Calendar of Items"
starting on page 70.
Dispatches of the Governor of Louisiana to the Capitán General of Cuba, 1766-1791
Archivo General de Indias
Photographs
Total number of positive prints: c. 2989 photographs in 31 boxes with typewritten calendar of
120 pages.
IX. [Capitanía General de la Isla de Cuba, or] Papeles procedentes de Cuba
Legajos: Selected documents [according to the Library of Congress' entry, these legajos are:
1055, 1145, 1146, 1232, 1233, 1304, 1377, 1393-1394, 1440, 1446].
Note: This is one of the ten sets of photographs made from the original negatives. See also the
entries in this Guide for the Library of Congress, Harvard University's Widener Library, and the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Karpinski Collection
Archivo General de Indias
Total number of photoreproduced maps: 199 (from Box 13, #474 to Box 15, #573).
The following are only samples of the Karpinski Collection at the Huntington Library:(6)
Author: Sigüenza [y Góngora, Carlos].
Date/Place: 1689.
Title: "Camino que el año de 1689 hizo el governador Alonso de Leon desde Cuahila [sic for
Coahuila] hasta hallar cerca del Lago de San Bernardo" (Texas area).
Original AGI location: Estante 61-6-21.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 13, #487.
Author: Alvarez Barreiro, Francisco.
Date/Place: [1727].
Title: "Plano Corografico y Hidrografico de las Provincias de la Nueva Vizcaya y Culiacan
(Northern México, New Mexico and Texas).
Original AGI location: Estante 67-4-4.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 13, #495.
Author: Feringan Cortes, Phelipe.
Date/Place: 1755.
Title: "Plano de parte de la Isla de Santa Rosa, Punta de Sigüenza y Costa de Tierra Firme que
forma la entrada del Puerto" (Pensacola, Florida area).
Original AGI location: Estante 95-7-7.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 14, #505.
Author: [Constansó, Miguel].
Date/Place: 1769.
Title: "Plano de la Costa del Sur correjido hasta la Can[al] de Sa[nta] Bárba[ra]"(California and
part of New Spain).
Original AGI location: Estado, [Audiencia de] Guadalajara, 1.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 14, #515.
Author: Hezeta, Bruno de.
Date: 1775.
Title: "Carta reducida de las Costas y Mares septentrionales de California"(Northern California,
Washington and Oregon).
Original AGI location: Estado, [Carpeta de Mapas], 16.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 14, #520.
Author: Camacho, Josef.
Date/Place: 1779.
Title: "Esta Carta Reducida contiene la Costa Septentrional de la California" (Alaska).
Original AGI location: Estado, [Carpeta de Mapas], 18.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 14, #527.
Author: Rocha y Figueroa, Gerónimo de la.
Date/Place: March 18, 1784.
Title: "Mapa del Terreno que ha de vatir la Expedic[i]ón q[u]e deve executarse contra los
Apaches Gileños" (Arizona and Northern México, Indian Tribes).
Original AGI location: Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 103-5-4.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 15, #552.
Author: Arce, Armando.
Date/Place: 1699. Title: "Mappa del Missisipi [including Lago de los Apaches]" (Mississippi River Basin, Indian
Tribes).
Original AGI location: Estante 145-7-9.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 15, #560.
Author: Du Breuil, R.
Date/Place: July 15, 1779.
Title: "Plano a la estima de la Costa de Ibervil desde Manchac hasta la Larga - vista de la Isla des
Marais" (New Orleans area).
Original AGI location: Papeles de Cuba, 2351.
Huntington Library filing location: ?
Biblioteca Nacional (Madrid)
Total number of photoreproduced maps: 35 (from Box 15, #574 to Box 16, #609; a few maps are
in oversized boxes).
The following are samples:
Author: Martines, Joan.
Date/Place: 1587.
Title: [World in two hemispheres]; taken from the Portolan Atlas by Joan Martines, Typus Orbis
Terrarum.
Original BN location: CC35, Est[ante]. Reser[vado]. 6, #1.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 15, #574.
References: Map #574-578 were taken from Joan Martines' Portolan Atlas.
Author: Liguera, Juan de.
Date/Place: 1742.
Title: "Plano de los Cayos de la Florida" (Florida Keys).
Original BN location: ?
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Oversize Box 22, #590.
Ministerio de Guerra (Madrid)
Total number of photoreproduced maps: 36 (from Box 16, #610 to Box 17, #646; plus a few in
oversized boxes.
The following are only samples:
Author: Bagay, Nicolás de la Cruz.
Date/Place: 1761.
Title: "Aspecto geográfico del mundo hispánico".
Original MG location: J. 8-1-a, 4.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 16, #610.
Author: Castelló, Pablo.
Date/Place: July 21, 1763.
Title: "Plano del Castillo del Presidio de S[a]n Agustín de la Florida".
Original MG location: J. 8-1-a, 23.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 16, #619.
Author: Ruiz de Olano, Pedro.
Date/Place: October 25, 1738.
Title: "Plano y Perfil del nuevo Fortin de S[a]n Francisco de Pupo, siete leguas del Presidio de
S[a]n Agustín de la Florida".
Original MG location: J. 8-1-a, 26.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 17, #620.
Author: Arredondo, Antonio de.
Date: [1737.]
Title: "Plano de la entrada de Gualiquini, Rio de S[a]n Simon" (San Simon, Georgia).
Original MG location: J. 8-1-a, 43.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 17, #624
Author: Constansó, Miguel.
Date/Place: October 30, 1770.
Title: "Carta reducida del Oceano Asiático . . . que comprehende la Costa OrPenínsula de la California" (Upper and Lower California).(7)iental de la
Original MG location: J. 9-2-a, 13.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 17, #641.
Author: Ortíz Parrilla, Diego.
Date/Place: 1766.
Title: "Mapa de una parte del Seno Mexicano comprehendida entre el Río Grande del Norte y la
Bahía de San Bernardo" (Texas coast).
Original MG location: J. 9-2-a, 15.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Oversize Box 23, #643.
Author: Berlin-Guieri.
Date/Place: 1781.
Title: "Plano del Puerto Antonio i Lugares Adyacentes Situado en la Parte del Norte de la Isla de
Jamayca".
Original MG location: J. 9-2-a, 57.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 17, #646.
Ministerio de Marina (Madrid)
Total number of photoreproduced maps: 58 (from Box 17, #647 to Box 18, #695; some are
placed in oversized boxes).
The following are only samples:
Author: Bodega y Quadra, Juan Francisco de la.
Date/Place: 1791.
Title: "Carta General de . . . la Carta Septentrional de California" (Acapulco, México to Alaska).
Original MN location: Atlas Ms. II, #12.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, oversize box 23, #649; #652 and 654
are also Bodega y Quadra maps.
Author: Pineda, Joseph Antonio de.
Date/Place: ?
Title: "Regni Mexicani, Novae Hispaniae" (North America).
Original MN location: J. 9-1, 1.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 18, #660.
Author: Campo, Jossef del.
Date/Place: ". . . Viniendo de Cavo Codd abuscar el Puerto del Boston" (Boston area, American
Revolution era).
Original MN location: J. 9- 2, 119.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Oversize Box 23, #679.
Palacio Liria (Madrid) [Residence of the Duke of Alba]
Total number of photoreproduced maps: 14 (from Box 18, #696 to Box 19, #710.
Author: Vaz Dourado, Fern~ao.
Date/Place: 1568.
Title: PortolScandinavia, Iceland; East Indies, "Gava"; Portions of Northern Sumatra; Newfoundland andan Atlas (14 maps): [Frontispiece and title page - Northwest Europe, British Isles,
Northeastern America; Southern South America; Straits of Magellan; Upper and Lower
California, Mexico; Japan and Korea; Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, Central America; Part of
Southwest Pacific, New Guinea; Brazil from Amazon to La Plata; Ceylon; Coast of Ecuador and
Peru; Persian Gulf and vicinity].
Original PL location: Portolan Atlas by Fern~ao Vaz Dourado, 1568.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 18, #696-699, and Box 19,
#700-710.
Biblioteca [del Palacio] Real (Madrid)
Total number of photoreproduced maps: 5 (from Box 19, #711 to 715a-b.
Author: Oliva, Joannes.
Date/Place: 1580?
Title: Portolan Atlas by Joannes Oliva: [Oval world map (2 copies) - Map of North America
including part of the Bay of California of the west and somewhat north of Florida on the east;
Coast of Brazil and some of the West Indies; Eastern Brazil and Western Coast of Africa (2
copies); Tierra del Labrador, Newfoundland, St. Lawrence River, Ireland, Spain and Africa (2
copies)].
Original Biblioteca Real location: Portolan Atlas by Joannes Oliva.
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Box 19, #711-715a-b.
Museo Naval (Madrid)
Total number of photoreproduced maps: 2.
Author: Matos, Antonio de.
Date/Place: 1745.
Title: "Descripción reducida de las costas de Tierra Firme de la América Septentrional [with
insets of Veracruz, Havana, Vívora, etc.]" (Gulf of México and Caribbean area).
Original MNM location: ?
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Oversize box 23, #762.
Author: Cosa, Juan de la.
Date/Place: 1500.
Title: a-b: [World Map, photographed in two sections]; c: [Same, in one photograph reduced in
size]; d-e: [Same, in two sections]; f: [Same, Africa only].
Original MNM location: ?
Huntington Library filing location: Karpinski Collection, Oversize Box 23.
Additional Documents:
Chapman #1148 Bárbara en el año 1769".
Contents: 1769. [Jorge Storace]. "Plano de la Costa del Sur corregido hasta la Canal de Santa
Estado, Audiencia de Guadalajara 1, Doc. 6, Acc. 289.
Chapman #1149
Contents: 1769. "Plano del Puerto de Sn. Diego situado por 32 grados 32 minutos de Latitud Septen[triona]l."
Estado, Audiencia de Guadalajara 1, Doc. 6, Acc. 289.
Chapman #1319
Contents: 1769, July 6; San Diego. Vicente Vila to Carlos Francisco de Croix. [This document is a combination of Chapman #1320 and 1321, both from Vicente Vila to Croix. Number 1321: "Relación diaria de los Sucesos más particulares de la navegación que executó desde el 11 de Enero que salí del Puerto de la Paz á la Expedición de Sn. Diego y Monterrey, hasta el primero de mayo fue di fondo en este Puerto de Sn. Diego y la que ha acontecido en el referido Puerto hasta el 6 de Julio que despachó los pliegos en el Paquebot el Príncipe; dexando las más menudas noticias pa... el Diario".
Gobierno, Audiencia de México, 89-3-22.
Chapman #1358
Contents: 1769, August 29; México. Marqués de Croix to Julian Arriaga.
Gobierno, Audiencia de México, 89-3-22.
Chapman #1373
Contents: 1769, September 12; San Blas. Jorge Storace to the Viceroy. [He had been sent back from San Diego because of ill health and submits a map of the coasts of California.]
Gobierno, Audiencia de Guadalajara, 104-3-3.
Suggested Bibliography
Arthur, Stanley Clisby. Index to the Dispatches of the Spanish Governors of Louisiana, 1766-1792. New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1975. 140 p.
Chapman, Charles E. Catalogue of Materials in the Archivo General de Indias for the History of the Pacific Coast and the American Southwest. (University of California Publications in History, vol. 8.) Berkeley: University of California, 1919. 755 p. [Reprint ed., Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Co., 1974.]
Hill, Roscoe R. Descriptive Catalog of the Documents Relating to the History of the United States in the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba Deposited in the Archivo General de Indias at Seville. Washington D.C.: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916. 594 p.
The Huntington Library Bulletin, no. 1 (May 1931).
Karpinski, Louis Charles. Maps of famous cartographers depicting North America. Amsterdam: Meridian Publications Co., 1977. 539 pp. ill.
________. Manuscript Maps Prior to 1800 Relating to America. n.p.: n.d. 986 maps.
Parish, John C. "California Books and Manuscripts in the Huntington Library," The Huntington Library Bulletin no. 7 (April 1935). [Reprinted for private circulation].
Relación de las ceremonias y ritos y población y gobierno de los indios de la provincia de Michoacán (1541). Reproducción facsímil del Ms. ç.IV.5 de El Escorial. Transcribed by José Tudela. Preliminary study by José Corona Núñez. México: Balsal Editores, 1977. 277 p.
Notes
1. One of ten sets of prints distributed in 1916 by the Carnegie Institution of Washington D.C. See entries for the Library of Congress and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2. Other copies of the Karpinski Collection are held by the Library of Congress (see entry), the William Clemens Library, the New York Public Library and the Ayers Collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
3. According to Chapman's Catalogue, the entire Estado section is composed of 105 legajos dating from 1750 to 1836 and are of the same sort as those in the Audiencia group of the Gobierno section; i.e., the Estado section is divided into the same thirteen colonial Audiencias as Gobierno, plus one other called América en General (p. 33).
4. See Calendar of Items beginning in Chapman's Catalogue, pp. 70-726.
5. Sebastian Vizcaíno may appear as Bizcaino, Vizcayno, etc.
6. The items selected here do not repeat those listed in the Library of Congress' Karpinski Collection. See entry for the Library of Congress in this Guide.
7. Frequently, one hears and reads in the United States that the peninsula of Baja California is addressed as "Baja"; this is a historical and grammatical error. "Baja" is not a name, it simply means "lower". The original (1535) name of the peninsula is "California".
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