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Letters, decrees, order books, reports, instructions, dispatches, printed material, and miscellaneous legal documents concerning the history and culture of colonial Spanish America including Florida and other territories now part of the U.S. Subjects include exploration of the New World; the government of New Spain, especially Mexico; the Catholic Church in Mexico and the administration of the Mexican Inquisition; taxation and economic conditions in the colonies; Spanish relations with Native Americans and the French; loss of portions of the Spanish empire to American expansion; and the New Laws of the Indies, 1542.
Individuals represented in the collection include Lope de Aguirre, Antonio de Arredondo, Antonio de Calderón, Bartolomé de las Casas, Pedro de Céspedes Vallejo Diaz, members of the Gourgues family including Dominique de Gourgues, Diego de Landa, Antonio de Mendoza, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Simón Pereyns, Diego Quiroga y Losada, Pedro de Ursa︢, Luis de Velasco, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Amerigo Vespucci, and Juan de Zumárraga.
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Politics and government, Inquisition, Taxation, Indians, Discovery and exploration, Legal status, laws, Economic policy, Colonies, Treatment of Indians, Catholic Church, Foreign relations, HistoryPeople
Simón Pereyns (d. 1589), Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (16th cent), Juan de Zumárraga (1468-1548), Gourgues family, Antonio de Mendoza (1492?-1552), Diego Quiroga y Losada, Antonio de Arredondo, Pedro de Ursúa (1526-1561), Diego de Landa (1524-1579), Luis de Velasco (1500?-1564), Dominique de Gourgues (1530?-1593), Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485-1528), Antonio de Calderón, Pedro de Céspedes Vallejo Diaz, Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), Bartolomé de las Casas (1474-1566), Lope de Aguirre (d. 1561)Places
North America, Mexico, Florida, New Spain, France, United States, America, SpainShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Open to research.
Microfilm edition available, no. 14,833.
Microfilm produced from the Collection of Spanish American documents of Hans Peter Kraus in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.
Gift, Hans Kraus, 1969-1970.
Bookman, collector, and bibliophile. Died 1988.
Collection material in English, Spanish, French, and Italian.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004019
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