GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
California: CA-118
University of the Pacific. Pacific Library. Holt-Atherton Special Collections
3601 Pacific Avenue
Stockton, CA 95211
Phone: 209-946-2404
Hours: See website
Access: No restrictions
Copying facilities: Yes
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive Dates: 1769, 1806-1983, undated
Volume: Ca. 1 cubic foot
Description: 8 collections include Native Catholic records:
/1 “Bolt Family Papers, Mss. 159”
Inclusive dates: 1899-1904
Volume: 4 folders
Description: Photographs and postcards from Richard Arthur Bolt (1880-1959) and family, re: Spanish Franciscan missions in California.
/2 “Brubeck, Dave, Collection, Mss. 4”
Inclusive dates: 1920-ca. 1990s
Volume: 32 postcards and slides
Description: San Juan Bautista Mission, San Juan Bautista, California.
/3 “Burbank, Elbridge Ayer, Papers and Pictorial Works, Mss. 37”
Inclusive dates: 1890-1949
Volume: 7 images Description: Oil paintings and a pencil drawing by Elbridge Ayer Burbank (1858-1949):
A. Spanish Franciscan missions, California, undated; 6 paintings
B. Navajo girl at St. Michael’s Mission, Arizona, undated; 1 drawing
/4 “Mexico. Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico. Selected Spanish California Archives, Mss. 22” Inclusive dates: 1532-1776
Volume: .3 cubic foot and 1 reel of microfilm
Description: Records (copies) in Spanish, some illegible: 2
A. Volume 1. Correspondence of Fray Junípero Serra, O.F.M. 1763-1784 and diary of Fray Francisco de Palou, O.F.M., 1769?; re: Spanish Franciscan missions in California
B. Volume 2. Number 3/32-34. Jesuit correspondence, 1532-1750s; re: Jesuit missions in Arizona, New Mexico, and adjacent areas of Mexico
C. Volume 3. Number 3/41-35. Jesuit correspondence, 1699-1740; re: Jesuit missions in Arizona, New Mexico, and adjacent areas of Mexico
D. Typescripts of 3 letters, 1776; re: Captain Juan Bautista de Anza and Yuma Indians
/5 “Moran, Thomas, Collection, Mss. 208”
Inclusive dates: 1920, 1951
Volume: 2 postcards
Description: Spanish Franciscan missions, California.
/6 “Small California Collections”
Inclusive dates: Undated
Volume: 1 folder
Description: Essay by Ella Costello Bennett, Mss. 2, B471, “The Graveyard of Dolores Mission (The Oldest Graveyard in San Francisco)” and 12 photographs, undated; re: San Francisco de Asís [Dolores] Mission, San Francisco, California.
/7 “Sweet, Evander M., Jr., U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Collection, Mss. 47”
Inclusive dates: Ca. 1915-1921
Volume: Few reports
Description: U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Records by Sweet, a U.S. Indian school inspector in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington State; includes a few inspection reports of Catholic schools.
/8 “Verbarg, Leonard H., Oakland Tribune Historical Collection, Mss. 208”
Inclusive dates: 1945-1974
Volume: 7 folders
Description: Correspondence, photographs, notes, and clippings compiled by Oakland Tribune newspaper columnist Leonard Verbarg; includes letters and promotional materials by John A. Davies, 1965-1968, re: restoration of Spanish Franciscan missions in California.
Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.
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