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 鈥淏olt Family Papers, Mss. 159鈥

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 鈥淏rubeck, Dave, Collection, Mss. 4鈥

Inclusive dates: 1920-ca. 1990s

Volume: 32 postcards and slides

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

 

/3 鈥淏urbank, Elbridge Ayer, Papers and Pictorial Works, Mss. 37鈥

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鈥檚 Mission, Arizona, undated; 1 drawing

 

/4 鈥淢exico. Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico. Selected Spanish California Archives, Mss. 22鈥 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 Jun铆pero 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 鈥淢oran, Thomas, Collection, Mss. 208鈥

Inclusive dates: 1920, 1951

Volume: 2 postcards

Description: Spanish Franciscan missions, California.

 

/6 鈥淪mall California Collections鈥

Inclusive dates: Undated

Volume: 1 folder

Description: Essay by Ella Costello Bennett, Mss. 2, B471, 鈥淭he Graveyard of Dolores Mission (The Oldest Graveyard in San Francisco)鈥 and 12 photographs, undated; re: San Francisco de As铆s [Dolores] Mission, San Francisco, California.

 

/7 鈥淪weet, Evander M., Jr., U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Collection, Mss. 47鈥

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 鈥淰erbarg, Leonard H., Oakland Tribune Historical Collection, Mss. 208鈥

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 蜜桃影像 Archives.

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