Records of the Austrian Ministerium des Äussern, 1756-1899.

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Records of the Austrian Ministerium des Äussern, 1756-1899.

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Consists of selections from the following series: STAATSKANZLEI: Diplomatic reports (1756-1863), mainly relating to America, from England, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Holland, the United States, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, and Belgium, many of which relate to the American Revolution. ADMINISTRATIVE REGISTRATUR: Dispatches from the Austrian Minister in Washington to the Ministry of Foreign Affaires at Vienna; special convolutes on Austrian emigration to the United States, on Italian emigration to the United States, and on extradition; and papers on the protection of foreign nationals from general conscription in the United States; and negotiations on a naturalization convention (1861-1870). ACTES DE HAUTE POLICE: Diplomatic intelligence reports relating to the United States, consisting of a group of convolutes on America for 1849-1854, 1857, 1859, 1860, and 1866. HANDELSPOLITISCHE ABTEILING: Diplomatic reports (1873-1890) from London, Washington, New York, Boston, and Berlin; convolutes on improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River, on the Vienna International Exposition and Austria's participation in Philadelphia's Centennial Exhibition; memorial on Austrians in American merchantmen and on immigration; and papers on commercial and financial questions and on the U.S. Act of trade marks of 1881. POLITISCHES ARCHIV: Dispatches (1815-1899) from London and Brussels on Maximilian's empire and on the American Civil War; Metternich's instructions to Austrian Ambassadors to London; reports from Paris and instructions from Vienna; reports of the Austrian Minister at Madrid to Vienna; reports from Austrian envoys in Washington; instructions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Washington envoys; reports from the Consul General at New York; correspondence from royal missions and others on recognition of republics in Central and South America; reports from Mexico concerning Emperor Maximilian; and a group of papers call Gesandtschaftarchiv, Washington, consisting of original and draft instructions from Vienna to Washington envoys and from the Washington envoys to Vienna.

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