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Map of Catholic missions in California and Sonora traced from a late-eighteenth-century Spanish manuscript.
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Map/Atlas
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Missions--California--Maps--Early works to 1800.
- Missions.
- Missions--Mexico--Maps--Early works to 1800.
- Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
- Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula).
- California--Maps--Early works to 1800.
- California.
- Sonora (Mexico : State)--Maps--Early works to 1800.
- Sonora (Mexico : State).
- Genre:
- Manuscript maps.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 map).
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1798-1804; approximately 1908]
- Summary:
- Untitled and anonymous tracing made by Irving B. Richman (1908?) from a late-eighteenth-century manuscript, possibly in the Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico). Identifies numerous missions, including closed and burned sites, in the region roughly bounded by San Francisco, the lower Colorado and Gila Rivers, Baja California, and Guadalajara, Mexico. Also identifies Apache, Yuma, Pima, and Seri Indian regions, and rumbos or routes associated with the Dominicans, missionaries from the San Fernando mission, and Juan Bautista de Anza's 1774 route toward Monterrey.
- Notes:
- AM reference: VAULT drawer Ayer MS map 227
- Incorrectly dated c.1772 in c.A. Smith's 'List of ms. maps Ayer Coll.' no. 227; subsequently dated between 1798-1804 on verso by an unknown source.
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- Latitude on graticule numbered 22-42º north of the equator. Scale c.1:7,000,000.
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata (viewed January 30, 2024).
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