GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
California: CA-118

University of the Pacific. Pacific Library. Holt-Atherton Special Collections
3601 Pacific Avenue
Stockton, CA 95211

Phone: 209-946-2404

 

Hours: See website

Access: No restrictions

Copying facilities: Yes

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive Dates: 1769, 1806-1983, undated

Volume: Ca. 1 cubic foot

Description: 8 collections include Native Catholic records:

 

/1 “Bolt Family Papers, Mss. 159â€

Inclusive dates: 1899-1904

Volume: 4 folders

Description: Photographs and postcards from Richard Arthur Bolt (1880-1959) and family, re: Spanish Franciscan missions in California.

 

/2 “Brubeck, Dave, Collection, Mss. 4â€

Inclusive dates: 1920-ca. 1990s

Volume: 32 postcards and slides

Description: San Juan Bautista Mission, San Juan Bautista, California.

 

/3 “Burbank, Elbridge Ayer, Papers and Pictorial Works, Mss. 37â€

Inclusive dates: 1890-1949

Volume: 7 images Description: Oil paintings and a pencil drawing by Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858-1949):

A. Spanish Franciscan missions, California, undated; 6 paintings

B. Navajo girl at St. Michael’s Mission, Arizona, undated; 1 drawing

 

/4 “Mexico. Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico. Selected Spanish California Archives, Mss. 22†Inclusive dates: 1532-1776

Volume: .3 cubic foot and 1 reel of microfilm

Description: Records (copies) in Spanish, some illegible: 2

A. Volume 1. Correspondence of Fray Junípero Serra, O.F.M. 1763-1784 and diary of Fray Francisco de Palou, O.F.M., 1769?; re: Spanish Franciscan missions in California

B. Volume 2. Number 3/32-34. Jesuit correspondence, 1532-1750s; re: Jesuit missions in Arizona, New Mexico, and adjacent areas of Mexico

C. Volume 3. Number 3/41-35. Jesuit correspondence, 1699-1740; re: Jesuit missions in Arizona, New Mexico, and adjacent areas of Mexico

D. Typescripts of 3 letters, 1776; re: Captain Juan Bautista de Anza and Yuma Indians

 

/5 “Moran, Thomas, Collection, Mss. 208â€

Inclusive dates: 1920, 1951

Volume: 2 postcards

Description: Spanish Franciscan missions, California.

 

/6 “Small California Collectionsâ€

Inclusive dates: Undated

Volume: 1 folder

Description: Essay by Ella Costello Bennett, Mss. 2, B471, “The Graveyard of Dolores Mission (The Oldest Graveyard in San Francisco)†and 12 photographs, undated; re: San Francisco de Asís [Dolores] Mission, San Francisco, California.

 

/7 “Sweet, Evander M., Jr., U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Collection, Mss. 47â€

Inclusive dates: Ca. 1915-1921

Volume: Few reports

Description: U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Records by Sweet, a U.S. Indian school inspector in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington State; includes a few inspection reports of Catholic schools.

 

/8 “Verbarg, Leonard H., Oakland Tribune Historical Collection, Mss. 208â€

Inclusive dates: 1945-1974

Volume: 7 folders

Description: Correspondence, photographs, notes, and clippings compiled by Oakland Tribune newspaper columnist Leonard Verbarg; includes letters and promotional materials by John A. Davies, 1965-1968, re: restoration of Spanish Franciscan missions in California.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the ˜·Í¸²Ê Archives.

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