GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Texas: TX-7

University of Texas at Austin.  Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Twenty-first and Guadalupe Streets
P.O. Box 7219
Austin, TX 78713

Phone: 512-471-8944
Email: See website

 
Alternative website: See -- Texas Archival Resources Online

 

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Copying facilities: Yes 

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: Between 1890-1970 

Volume: Ca .1 cubic foot

Description: 3 collections. 

 

/1 “E.O. Goldbeck Collection”

Inclusive dates: Between 1890-1970

Volume: Several photographs 

Description: By Eugene Omar Goldbeck; re: Franciscan missions among native people (e.g. Coahuiltecan, Mestizos) of San Antonio, Texas. 

 

/2 “New Pictorialist Society Permanent Exhibition, Discrete Collection 193”

Inclusive dates: Undated

Volume: 1 photograph

Description: Kallitype by Warren Dowler, re: Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña Mission, San Antonio, Texas. 

 

/3 “W.D. Smithers Collection of Photographs”

Inclusive dates: Between 1910-1968

Volume: Several photographs 

Description: By Wilfred Dudley Smithers under 3 headings:

A. “Indian Pueblos,” 1934, within 1 box; re: San Augustine Mission, Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, and San Estevan del Rey Mission, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico

B. “Spanish missions,” 1934-1968, within 2 boxes; re: Gran Quivira Mission, Salinas, New Mexico, Our Lady of Mount Carmel ([Ysleta] Tiwa) Mission, El Paso, Texas, San Estevan del Rey Mission, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, San Xavier del Bac Mission, Tucson, Arizona, and Padre Esteban Kino, S.J. [Jesuits]

C. “Pioneer Texans/ landmarks,” undated, within 6 boxes: Includes San Antonio de Valero (El Alamo) and San José y San Miguel de Aguayo Missions, San Antonio, Texas

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Ӱ Archives.

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