Minas de Sombrerete Collection, 1797-1851 (bulk 1825-1851).

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Minas de Sombrerete Collection, 1797-1851 (bulk 1825-1851).

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Correspondence, financial documents, literary productions, and legal documents concerning the mines operated in Sombrerete by the Anitúa family. Correspondence includes letters from Lucas Alamán to José María Bracho, a participant in a company formed to operate the Cañada mines, and a letter book (filed as G446 Ms.) containing copies of letters written by Martín Gracia, business manager. Primary recipients of Gracia's letters were Miguel and Angel de Anitúa and José Ynés Alvarez, representative of Miguel de Anitúa. Financial documents include valuations made in 1825 of the haciendas Nuestra Señora de la Soledad and Purisima Conceptión (on which the mines were located), accounts of operating expenses, statements of production, and miscellaneous accounts. Literary productions include an 1836 report on the state of mining and the economy in the district of Sombrerete, Zacatecas, and El Mineral de Sombrete, a detailed historical analysis of the mines, written in 1851. Legal documents consist of a notice regarding suspension of operations of the San Lucas mine in 1838, a contract, and a document concerning power of.

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Alamán, Lucas, 1792-1853

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Statesman, political leader, and historian. Born 1792 in Guanajuato; died 1853 in Mexico City. Elected in 1821 as deputy for Guanajuato to the Cortes de Cádiz. Ministro de Relaciones Interiores e Exteriores (1823-1825). Established the Companía Unida de Minas and the first foundry in Mexico after independence (1825). Administrator of the estate of the Duque de Terranova y Monteleone. Member of the Poder Ejecutivo after the 1829 Plan de Jalapa, and Ministro de Relaciones (1830-1832) in t...

Gracia, Martín.

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Anitúa, Miguel de.

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Alvarez, José Ynés.

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Anitúa, Angel de.

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Anitúa, Narciso de, d. 1839.

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García, Genaro, 1867-1920

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Attorney, historian, writer, educator, bibiophile. Born August 17, 1867; died November 26, 1920. Received law degree from Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia in 1891. Representative to Congreso de la Unión, 1892-1899. Director of Museo Nacional de Historia, Arqueología y Etnología. Director of Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. Major publications include: Colección de documentos inéditos o muy raros para la historia de México (1905-1911), Documentos históricos mexicanos (1910-1911), and an edi...