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Prieto and Maíz Family Business Records, 1760-1974 (bulk 1890-1945): Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Abstract:
- Consists of the records (1760-1974) of a large business conglomerate in northern Mexico founded by Pedro R. Prieto and owned by branches of the Prieto family, including Maíz family members, for three generations.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0053
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James Edward Calhoun Correspondence, 1827-1843: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Calhoun, James Edward, 1798-1898.
- Abstract:
- Consists of selected correspondence of James Edward Calhoun, a 19th-century U.S. Navy lieutenant.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C1025
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New Granada Slavery Collection, 1757-1812: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections.
- Abstract:
- Consists of 58 manuscript leaves, comprising 27 Spanish documents, relating to the buying and selling of slaves in the Kingdom of New Granada (now Colombia).
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C1052
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Henry Hill Collection, 1808-1839: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Hill, Henry, 1778-1841.
- Abstract:
- Consists of a file of nineteeth-century correspondence and documents primarily relating to Henry Hill's commission as United States consul in Salvador, Brazil.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C1076
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Madeira-Mamoré Expeditions Collection, 1875-1914 : Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Hepburn, Robert Hopewell.
- Abstract:
- Consists of postcards, photographs, wood engravings, memorabilia, and printed material collected by Robert Hopewell Hepburn relating to expeditions sent down to tropical South America in an attempt by the Brazilian government to construct a railroad along the Madeira River. Robert Hopewell Hepburn, a young engineer with the Pennsylvania Railroad System and a Princeton graduate of the Class of 1871, made the trip in 1878. He son undertook the same effort twenty-nine years later, sending back postcards to his father from Brazil.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C1121
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Sergio Ramírez Papers, 1916-2005 (bulk 1963-2002): Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Ramírez, Sergio, 1942-
- Abstract:
- Sergio Ramírez has been a leading Nicaraguan author and politician. In 1977 Ramírez became head of the "Group of Twelve", a group of prominent intellectuals who supported the struggle of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. With the triumph of the Revolution in 1979, he became part of the Junta of the Government of National Reconstruction and in 1984 he was elected vice-president under Daniel Ortega. The collection consists of manuscripts of his writings, source materials, personal, literary and political correspondence, papers and documents related to Ramírez's political career and to Nicaraguan political history, writings of others, photographs, and graphic and printed materials.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C1123
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Cuban Writers Protest and Dissent, 2007: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Buscaglia-Salgado, José F.
- Abstract:
- Consists of formal speeches and over three hundred e-mails collected by Prof. José Buscaglia-Salgado regarding the demands of scholars, intellectuals, and artists for changes in the official doctrine of the Cuban Revolution laid down in a speech by Fidel Castro.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C1196
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Miscellaneous Slavery Collection, 1700-1885: Finding Aid
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections.
- Abstract:
- Consists of an open collection of correspondence and documents relating to slavery in America, Africa, and the Caribbean area in the 17th through 19th centuries.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C1210
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Izcue y Arias (Firm) Records, 1786-1842: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Izcue y Arias (Firm)
- Abstract:
- Consists of 15 bound volumes (1786-1842) of commercial records/transactions from the Lima (Peru) merchantile firm of Izcue y Arias.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C1297
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Hugh Gelston Correspondence, 1823-1824: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Gelston, Hugh.
- Abstract:
- Consists of eighteen letters (1823-1824) of Hugh Gelston, an American merchant from Baltimore, Maryland, to his Mexican agent, Thomas J. Shepard, regarding business conditions.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C1340
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Hacienda San Diego (Mexico) Records, 1634-1902: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Abstract:
- Consists of two volumes of certified copies of land titles and estate records of the estate known as Hacienda San Diego, situated in the Armadillo Valley of the northern state of San Luis Potosí (Mexico), a silver mining region, covering the period from its origin, in a 1634 grant from Viceroy Pacheco y Osorio to Diego del Castillo, to 1902, when John A. Wright bought the estate on behalf of George W. Brackenridge, a prominent citizen of San Antonio, Texas.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C1349
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Isabel Magee Sherman Papers, 1900-1913: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Sherman, Isabel Magee.
- Abstract:
- Consists of writings, correspondence, photographs, and miscellanea of the American journalist Isabel Magee Sherman relating to her experiences in Mexico.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- WC007
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Dennis E. Puleston Papers, 1961-1980: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Puleston, Dennis Edward, 1940-1978.
- Abstract:
- Consists of works, correspondence, photographs, a journal (1962), maps, computer tapes, and printed matter of Puleston, a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- WC012
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Diaries of Frans and Gertrude Blom, 1943-1959: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Blom, Frans Ferdinand, 1893-1963.
- Abstract:
- Consists of copies of diaries kept by Blom and his wife, Gertrude Duby Blom, from 1943 to 1959, while searching for Maya ruins in Chiapas, Mexico, in 14 volumes.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- WC040
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Indians of Chiapas, Mexico, Film Negatives Collection, 1960-1970: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Princeton University. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections.
- Abstract:
- Consists of approximately 600 negatives of the Indians of Chiapas, Mexico.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- WC058
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Tlalpujahua/Toluca Archive, 1751-1800s: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Abstract:
- Consists of over 250 leaves/fragments of various manuscript documents (many concerning Austancio Rulfo and José Benavides) from the towns of Tlalpujahua and Toluca, Mexico, dating from 1751 through the 1800s.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C1001
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Selected Papers of George Alexander Thompson, 1797-1828: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Thompson, George Alexander.
- Abstract:
- Consists of corrected proofs, printed ephemera, and autograph letters of nineteenth-century English scholar and author George Alexander Thompson.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0963
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Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts, [600s-1800s]: Finding Aid
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections.
- Abstract:
- The Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts is an open collection of pre-Columbian and Colonial manuscripts, documents, and artifacts, dating from the 7th to the 19th century.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0940
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Iturbe e Iraeta Papers, 1754-1878 (bulk 1781-1845): Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Iturbe e Iraeta family.
- Abstract:
- Consists of records of three successive generations of the Iturbe e Iraeta, a prominent, Mexican merchant family of Basque origin, active in Mexican colonial and interregional trade from the 1760s to the 1840s.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0074
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Bunkley Research on Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, 1940s: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Bunkley, Allison Williams, 1925-1950.
- Abstract:
- Consists of thirteen notebooks compiled by American biopgrapher Allison Williams Bunkley while in South America doing research for his book The Life of Sarmiento (1952).
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0505
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Alexander Chambers Papers, 1864-1938: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Chambers, Alexander.
- Abstract:
- Consists of papers of American commodities agent Alexander Chambers, much of which deals with his commercial agent, H. H. Steel, in Guatemala.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0612
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Morris Weeks Manuscripts, 1969: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Weeks, Morris, 1913-
- Abstract:
- Consists of manuscripts of Hello Mexico (1970), a work by Morris Weeks (Princeton Class of 1934) which describes the history, government, and culture of the people of Mexico.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0620
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Spanish Military Documents Relating to 19th Century Cuba, 1845-1976: Finding Aid
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections.
- Abstract:
- Consists of Spanish legal and military documents relating to the administration of Cuba in the 19th century.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0646
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Chile Photographic File, 1984-1990: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections.
- Abstract:
- Consists of 223 slides and 77 photographs taken during the last years of the Augusto Pinochet regime in Chile.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0683
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Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscripts, 1700s-1925: Finding Aid
- Collector:
- Garrett, Robert, b. 1875.
- Abstract:
- The Garrett-Gates Collection contains approximately 250 Mesoamerican manuscripts, chiefly written in Latin script. Maya languages are well represented, predominantly Yucatec and K'iche', and to a lesser degree Kaqchikel, Tzutuhil, Tzeltal, Pokoman, Chorti, Cholti, and K'eq'chi.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0744.01
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Garrett Mesoamerican Manuscripts, 1500s-1910: Finding Aid
- Collector:
- Garrett, Robert, b. 1875.
- Abstract:
- The Garrett Collection of Mesoamerican Manuscripts (C0744) contains 21 manuscripts and documents from Central and South America, dating from the 16th to the 20th century.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0744.02
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Heath Bowman Papers, 1923-1989: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Bowman, Heath, 1910-
- Abstract:
- Heath Bowman was a member of the Princeton University Class of 1931. After graduating, Bowman traveled extensively and later became a public affairs officer involved in Chile, Italy, France, and Yugoslavia. The papers consist of Bowman’s 68 diaries from 1923 to 1989 and some of his photographs from the West Indies and South America.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0762
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Samuel Chavkin Papers, 1974-1994 (bulk 1970s): Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Chavkin, Samuel, 1913-1994.
- Abstract:
- Consists of 59 audio recordings and selected correspondence and articles by American journalist Samuel Chavkin, who covered events in Chile for various publications in the 1970s, primarily after the military junta of 1973.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0786
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Rafael Fuentes Papers, 1928-1966 (bulk 1936-1956): Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Fuentes, Rafael, 1901-1971.
- Abstract:
- Consists of personal and working papers of Mexican diplomat Rafael Fuentes.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0791
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Achille François Bazaine Correspondence, 1862-1866: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Bazaine, Achille François, 1811-1888.
- Abstract:
- A collection of 74 letters and documents, 1862-1866, concerning the efforts of the French to establish and maintain an empire in Mexico under the rule of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian (1832-1867). Almost all the letters were sent to General Achille François Bazaine.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0865
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Records of Colonial Tlalpujahua (Michoacán, Mexico), 1562-1903 (bulk 1720-1830s): Finding Aid
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections.
- Abstract:
- The Records of Colonial Tlalpujahua (Michoacán, Mexico) consists of papers pertaining to the Convento de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, as well as miscellaneous papers that document matrimonial and criminal legal cases, land transactions in Tlalpujahua and Toluca, and genealogical information compiled by Austacio Rulfo. Additional papers to the collection include documents, accounts, religious petitions, assorted documents, and correspondence, many pertaining to the Benavides family.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0867
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Fidel Castro Photographs Collection, 1950s-1980s: Finding Aid
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections.
- Abstract:
- This collection contains approximately 130 black and white photographs of Cuban prime minister, lawyer, and revolutionist Fidel Castro.
- Location:
- Manuscripts Division.
- Call Number:
- C0870
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Dana Gardner Munro Papers, 1906-1981: Finding Aid
- Creator:
- Munro, Dana Gardner, 1892-1990.
- Abstract:
- Dana Gardner Munro (1892-1990) was an American diplomat to Latin America and a professor of history and director of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His papers document segments of his scholarly and diplomatic work, and include Department of State press releases, subject files, lectures, correspondence, and articles relating to United States-Latin American relations and Latin American history.
- Location:
- Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. Public Policy Papers.
- Call Number:
- MC170
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