Scope and Content Note
The Harry T. Friedman Collection of Spanish American Documents spans the years circa 1500-1912. The collection is in part photocopies, facsimiles, and microfilm of original material. It consists of correspondence, reports, certificates, printed matter, and other documents relating to such topics as the Joliet-Marquette expedition (1673), navigation and trade from the Philippines to Mexico (1749), land transactions in Tulancingo and Huejotzingo, Mexico, and persons associated with the cause of Mexican independence. Other topics include inventories (1778-1785) of Mexican missions at Mátape, Alamos, and Macori, and information on Indian groups and the branding of military livestock. Also included is correspondence addressed to Manuel Madrid concerning nineteenth-century economic affairs, correspondence of José Yves Limantour, and microfilm reproduced from originals in private hands of census counts in Mexico City, 1610-1784.
The material is in Spanish and unidentified Indian languages.