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California Pre-Statehood Documents
MS 105
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Physical Location: Stored at Special Collections and Archives: Advanced notice is required for access to the material.
Title: California Pre-Statehood Documents
Dates: 1797-1850
Bulk Dates: (bulk 1830-1850)
Collection number: MS 105
Collector:
Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors
Collection Size:
7 archives boxes
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: Collection includes correspondence, fiscal and legal documents, and proclamations from California, 1797-1850.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
Spanish
Collection open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
California Pre-Statehood Documents. MS 105. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Placed on deposit in the University Library, University of California Santa Cruz in accordance with Resolution no. 147-68,
Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection includes Spanish documents and correspondence between the colonial administrators of Monterey, San Jose, and
Villa Branciforte, California, 1797 to 1850.
The collection also includes two documents in English from Commodore R.F. Stockton.
Documents are mainly handwritten in Spanish, with the following exceptions: Two press printed proclamations from 1844; 79
typed envelopes with English translations; 5 sheets of 35mm black and white copy negatives.
Numbers 71, 196, 368, 550, 607 & 636 are missing from the collection.
The documents were previously assigned numbers by the donor (1-661) and are arranged numerically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
California -- History -- To 1850
Santa Cruz County (Calif.)-- History, Local