Showing Collections: 1 - 5 of 5
Fernando R. and Enriqueta Gomez Collection in Mormon Mexican History
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1124
Abstract
This collection covers the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico both from the native and missionary perspectives, starting in the mid-19th century to the early 21st century. This collection also includes a significant amount of documents from the Fudnamentalist Mormon movement in Mexico, namely items from Margarito Bautista who founded the group headquartered in Ozumba, Mexico, Mexico but also has documents translated to Spanish from the Woolley, Allred, and...
Dates:
1810-2019; Majority of material found within 1879-2012
Jose Clemente Orozco scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0448
Abstract:
no content
Dates:
1932 - 1953
Rundel Latin American Map Collection
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1126
Abstract
Collected by Dr. Rundel, a Distinguished Professor at UCLA’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and director of Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden at UCLA, the Rundel Latin American Map Collection contains maps produced in the late 1600s to the late 1800s. The subject matter of the maps is largely focused on South America, but along with the South American maps are maps from Africa, Pacific Islands, and Southeast Asia. The maps are predominantly in English and French, however...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1600’s – 1800’s
San Gabriel Mission Matrimonial Investigation Records
Collection
Identifier: H1964.2
Abstract:
The first section of papers contains marriage investigation records kept by the San Gabriel Mission from 1788 to 1861. An alphabetical index indicates the folder number of each item. The second section of papers contains letters and documents from early California missionaries from 1773-1856. There is a total of 330 documents.
Dates:
1773-1856
Henry R. Wagner Collection
Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0924
Scope and Contents of the Collection
In 1935, the Wagner Collection joined the Mason Collection as an important collection of Western Americana. At this time Henry Raup Wagner gave to Pomona College his collection of books and maps assembled in preparation for his Cartography of the North West Coast of America to the Year 1800, a work published by the University of California Press in 1937. This consisted of 629 maps, most of them photostats, but containing in all every map made before 1800 that Wagner could find which showed...
Dates:
1535-1937