Scope and Content Note
The papers in the Carnegie Institution of Washington Reproductions Collection span the years 1686-1941, with the bulk of the items dated from 1686 to 1812. The transcriptions and copies of documents relating to the history of the United States, especially the early Spanish period and British ministers to the United States from 1791-1812, were collected for publication projects of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Two of the publications were Descriptive Catalogue of the Documents relating to the History of the United States in the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba deposited in the Archivo General de Indias at Seville, by Roscoe R. Hill (Washington, D.C., 1916) and Instructions to the British Ministers to the United States, 1791-1812, by Bernard Mayo (Washington, D.C., 1941). The material was chiefly copied from the British Foreign Office and Public Record Office, archives in the Netherlands and Scandinavian countries, and from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain. Included also in the collection are the notes of Carnegie Institution of Washington members Reuben Gold Thwaites and Francis S. Philbrick, and material relating to John White (fl. 1585-1593), the first English artist to visit American, and John C. Calhoun. Subjects also include European treaties and Yucatan.