Luis Alberto Guajardo Collection of Músquiz, Mexico Records
Scope and Contents
The collection is arranged in five overlapping chronologies, apparently created by Guajardo. In some areas of this collection, his manuscript notes are present and indicate how he has grouped material.
The First Chronology is the largest and includes administrative records, particularly census records, land records, legal records, and records pertaining to the administration of Indian affairs.
The Second Chronology is very similar to the First Chronology and includes administrative records and circulars issued by the Coahuila government.
The Third Chronology includes religious, census, property, and legal records pertaining to Músquiz and the Coahuila region.
The Fourth Chronology contains administrative records for the Coahuila region, including census, land, and water records; census rolls, including rolls of Indian (particularly Seminole and Apache) residents; records pertaining to mining in the Santa Rosa region; an account of the founding of Piedras Negras; and records pertaining to the military budget.
The Fifth Chronology includes indices of correspondence and decrees in Coahuila, wills, and court proceedings. The land petitions, citizenship, and legal proceedings of Thomas Jefferson Chambers are especially well documented and include manuscripts in English. This chronology also includes material on the founding and history of the Texas region.
Luis Alberto Guajardo's Folders (now empty) consists of folders Guajardo used. When the collection was processed in 1993 these folders were empty, but the folders have been kept with the collection because they include Guajardo's notes and may provide information regarding how he organized the collection.
Dates
- 1553 - 1889
- Majority of material found within 1801 - 1889
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Extent
7.09 Linear Feet (17 boxes)
Language of Materials
Spanish; Castilian
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Biographical / Historical
Processing Information
This collection received a basic level of processing in 2014, including rehousing and minimal organization. Prior processing in the summer of 1993 found that the papers had been arranged in five chronological series. Many documents were dated in pencil by an earlier unknown processor. Without disturbing these series, the chronological order within each series was improved, and the material was placed in archival folders and boxes. No bound documents were disbound.
Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Apache Indians
- Cattle trade -- Mexico
- Chambers, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1865
- Cholera -- Mexico
- Coahuila (Mexico : State)
- Coahuila and Texas (Mexico) -- Colonization
- Coahuila and Texas (Mexico) -- Politics and government
- Comanche Indians
- Guajardo, Luis Alberto
- Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Coahuila and Texas
- Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
- Land grants -- Mexico -- Coahuila and Texas (Mexico)
- Land grants -- Texas
- Mexico -- History -- 1821-1861
- Mexico -- History -- To 1810
- Mineral industries -- Mexico
- Mines and mineral resources -- Mexico
- Mining engineering -- Mexico
- Músquiz (Mexico)
- Provincias Internas (New Spain)
- Public health -- Mexico -- Coahuila and Texas (Mexico)
- Seminole Indians
- Texas -- Emigration and immigration
- Texas -- History -- To 1846
- Women -- Mexico
- Women -- Social conditions -- Mexico
- Women -- Violence against -- Mexico
Creator
- Title
- Guide to the Luis Alberto Guajardo Collection of Músquiz, Mexico Records
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Beinecke Staff and Alison Clemens
- Date
- August 1993
- Description rules
- Beinecke Manuscript Unit Archival Processing Manual
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
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