[Map of Catholic missions in California and Sonora traced from a late eighteenth century Spanish manuscript]. [1908?]

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

[Map of Catholic missions in California and Sonora traced from a late eighteenth century Spanish manuscript]. [1908?]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38931948

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. Latitude on graticule numbered 22 ̊through 42 ̊north of the equator.

1 ms. map : cloth ; 398 x 278 mm.

Newberry Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7409081

Newberry Library

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Newberry Library

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kt7hww (person)

The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Irving B. Richman Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61h1cc5 (corporateBody)

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qd0vfn (corporateBody)

Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6553djc (corporateBody)

The Provincias Internas were formally established by the Real Orden of August 22, 1776, to provide effective government of the northern region of New Spain. They included the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya, Coahuila, Texas, Nuevo México, Sinaloa, Sonora, Nuevo León, Nuevo Santander, and the Californias. These provinces were removed from the control of the viceroy and placed under the military and political government of a comandante general who was directly responsible to the king. In...