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Collection Hans Peter Kraus Collection of Spanish American Documents, 1433 to 1877

Related Resources

Selected Archival Resources

For Library of Congress collections, please click on the catalog record links for a fuller description and additional links to available online finding aids, indexes, and digital collections.

  • Bodega y Cuadra, Juan de la. Journal, 1792-1793, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • G. R. G. Conway Collection, 1559-1786, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record. Copies and translations of documents relating to colonial Mexico, including the Inquisition; to the Spanish in America, the Philippines, and Japan; and to the English in Mexico.
  • East Florida Papers, 1737-1858, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Peter Force Collection, Hispanic Collection, 1527-1811, VIII C, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.   
  • Foreign Copying Program – Spain. Since 1905 the Library of Congress has been copying papers documenting United States history in foreign archives. Included are copies in a variety of formats from Spanish and Cuban archives documenting Spanish colonial rule in the Americas:
    • Papeles procedentes de la isla de Cuba in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, 1765-1821, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
    • Archivo Nacional de Cuba, Havana, collection pertaining to Spanish colonial rule in Louisiana and the Floridas, 1770-1911, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Harkness Collection, 1525-1651, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record. Papers relating to Mexico and Peru collected by Standard Oil heir Edward Stephen Harkness.
  • Woodbury Lowery Collection Relating to Spanish Settlements in the United States, 1517-1803, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Henry Albert Monday Collection Relating to Mexico, 1522-1935, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Vicente Sebastián Pintado Papers, 1781-1842, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record. Spanish surveyor-general of West Florida, 1805-1817. Pintado’s papers are in the Manuscript Division and his maps are in the Geography and Map Division.
  • West Florida Collection, 1764-1848, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.

Selected Bibliography

  • Bodega y Cuadra, Juan de la. Nutka 1792: Viaje A La Costa Noroeste De La América Septentrional Por Juan Francisco De La Bodega Y Quadra . . . . [Madrid]: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de España, Dirección General de Relaciones Culturales y Científicas, [1998]. LC catalog record.
  • Bodega y Cuadra, Juan de la. Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, 1792: Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra and the Nootka Sound Controversy. Translated by Freeman M. Tovell. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.LC catalog record.
  • Clemence, Stella. The Harkness Collection in the Library of Congress: Calendar of Spanish Manuscripts Concerning Peru, 1531-1651. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Clemence, Stella. The Harkness Collection in the Library of Congress: Documents from Early Peru, the Pizarros and the Almagros, 1531-1578. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936. WorldCat catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Hill, Roscoe R. Descriptive Catalogue 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.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Kahler, Mary Ellis, ed. The Harkness Collection in the Library of Congress, Manuscripts Concerning Mexico: A Guide, with Selected Transcriptions and Translations by J. Benedict Warren. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1974. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External
  • Kraus, Hans P. A Rare Book Saga: The Autobiography of H. P. Kraus. New York: Putnam, 1978. LC catalog record.
  • Manning, Mabel. “The East Florida Papers in the Library of Congress.” Hispanic American Historical Review 10 (August 1930): 392-397. LC catalog record. Available online through JSTOR External is a subscription database available onsite at the Library of Congress and other libraries that subscribe to it.
  • Reed, Benjamin. “Mexico’s Colonial Past Deepened Through A New Discovery.” Guest blog post, January 13, 2015, Insights: Scholarly Work at the John W. Kluge Center (posted by Jason Steinhauer).  
  • Shepherd, William R. Guide to the Materials for the History of the United States in Spanish Archives. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1907. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Warren, J. Benedict, ed. Hans P. Kraus Collection of Hispanic American Manuscripts: A Guide. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1974. LC catalog record. Available online at the Library of Congress and through HathiTrust External.
  • Wright, Irene A. “The Odyssey of the Spanish Archives of Florida,” in Hispanic American Essays: A Memorial to James Alexander Robinson. Edited by A. Curtis Wilgus. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1942. LC catalog record. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1970. LC catalog record.