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Finding Aid to the Documentos para la historia de California, 1817-1850: Alviso family
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BANC MSS C-B 66
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Collection Title: Documentos para la historia de California: Alviso family papers
Date (inclusive): 1817-1850
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 66
Creator: Alviso family
Extent:
Originals: 1 box and 4 oversize folders
Copies: partial microfilm reel (224 exp.); negative (Rich. 88:2) and positive
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please
consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Papers collected by H.H. Bancroft for his history of California. Primarily Alviso
family documents relating to the sale of cattle, tallow and hides and to early government in San Jose.
Also included are miscellaneous papers of Juan B.R. Cooper, M.G. Vallejo, Thomas O. Larkin and James
McKinlay.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in Spanish
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
reader.
[Identification of item] Documentos para la historia de California, Alviso family papers, BANC MSS
C-B 66, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
These papers, collected by H. H. Bancroft for his history of California, consist mainly of Alviso family
documents, many of them relating to the sale of cattle, tallow and hides, and to early government in San
Jose. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of John B. R. Cooper, Mariano G. Vallejo, Thomas O.
Larkin and James McKinlay.
Bancroft's numbering and arrangement of the papers, roughly chronological, have been retained. A list of
the documents is included, followed by a list of correspondents, addressees (other than members of the
Alviso family), and/or signers of documents.