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Mexican hacienda manuscripts
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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Mexican hacienda manuscripts
Identifier/Call Number: 0541
Physical Description:
4.69 Linear Feet
7 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1673-1913
Abstract: This collection contains various handwritten record books and copies of legal and financial documents related to haciendas
in Mexico, chiefly dating from the 17th to 19th centuries. The items concern a variety of topics including real estate, legal
issues, boundary disputes, property and estate inventories, financial accounts reflecting income sources and debts, and issues
related to indigenous peoples.
Language of Material:
Spanish; Castilian.
This collection contains various handwritten record books and copies of legal and financial documents related to haciendas
in Mexico, chiefly dating from the 17th to 19th centuries. The items concern a variety of topics including real estate, legal
issues, boundary disputes, property and estate inventories, financial accounts reflecting income sources and debts, and issues
related to indigenous peoples.
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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections 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.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Mexican hacienda manuscripts, Collection no. 0541, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American
Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Received from various sources. Acquisition information noted at the item level when available.
This collection is not fully processed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Haciendas -- Mexico -- Archival resources
Mexico -- History -- Archival resources
Property records
Account books