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Argentinian Jesuits collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS93
Scope and Contents note The Argentinean Jesuits Collection consists of eleven documents from early nineteenth century Buenos Aires, during the period of the return of the Society of Jesus and the South American liberation from Spain. The collection covers a variety of topics relating to the Society of Jesus in Buenos Aires. The first two documents from 1800 to 1802, relate to the Capuchin fathers in Buenos Aires. Several of the documents in the collection are petitions to the governing body of Buenos Aires, the...
Dates: 1800-1819; Majority of material found within 1800 - 1819
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Joaquim de Siqueira Coutinho Collection of Peruvian Documents

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS100
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

Ten handwritten and printed documents relating to the administration and taxation of Colonial Peru by Spain.

Dates: 1612-1820; Majority of material found within 1711-1820
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Paraguayan Jesuits Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS101
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Paraguayan Jesuits Collection consists of 20 manuscript and 4 printed documents ranging in date from 1639 to about 1744. A number of the manuscripts deal with the employment of Indian laborers from the Jesuit 'reductions' on the fortification of the ports of Buenos Aires; others touch on the incursions of hostile Indians against the reductions. A major emphasis of the collection, however, is on the continuing struggle between the Jesuits and the antagonistic representatives of the Church...
Dates: 1639 - 1744
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Spanish Jesuits Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS113
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Spanish Jesuits Collection consists of 1 linear foot of manuscripts and correspondence by and about Spanish Jesuits from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The material is arranged in ten folders in 2 boxes. The Spanish Jesuits Collection contains a special series, The Jose de Francisco de Isla Series, which consists of bound manuscripts and correspondence by and about Isla. Most of the material centers around Isla's Historia del Famoso Predicador Fray Gerundio de...
Dates: 1750 - 1850
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Spanish Boundary Commission Report on Spanish and Portuguese Territory in South America and the Guarani War

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20131216
Scope and Contents

The report is a 454 page bound manuscript written in Spanish in scribal hand, dated to approximately 1760.

Dates: circa 1760
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

J. Raymond Ylitalo Papers

 Series
Identifier: GTM-20221205
Content Description The J. Raymond Ylitalo Papers document the diplomatic career of J. Raymond Ylitalo (1916-1987), a U.S. foreign service officer who was the 29th U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay from 1969 through 1972. Materials derive from Ylitalo's postings to Helsinki, Finland; Munich, Germany; Manila, Philippines; Washington, D.C.; Tijuana, Mexico; Asuncion, Paraguay; and Toronto, Canada. Included are photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and printed matter from his various posts. The collection...
Dates: 1916 - 1987
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Gozos Devotional Broadsides Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-140708
Scope and Contents This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection. The collection consists of gozos (also known as gosos or goigs) and other religious devotional printed pieces from the Catalan region of Spain, dating from 1776 to 1982. Many of the gozos relate to Mary, mother of Jesus.It...
Dates: 1776 - 1982
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Esther Neira de Calvo Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-071217
Scope and Contents Note The Esther Neira de Calvo Papers thoroughly document the life and career of Esther Neira de Calvo, a prominent Panamanian educator, politician, diplomat, and women's rights advocate. The extensive collection includes correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, speeches, and awards, and it provides a fascinating perspective on 20th century Panama and Inter-American cooperation. There is material from Carrie Chapman Catt, Maria Ossa de Amador Guerrero, Matilde Obarrio de Mallet, Gabriela...
Dates: 1890 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1978
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

David Landers Peruvian Manuscripts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS458
Scope and Contents The David Landers Peruvian Collection contains fifteen autographed legal documents, dated 1566 to 1626, in addition to a listing of hospital patients from 1776 and an Incan quipu. The documents are linked at times by a common witness, or notary public, along with other signatures from those involved in the particular exchange. The Peruvian documents demonstrate the importance placed by the Spaniards in maintaining a written record for a wide variety of transactions during the colonial era....
Dates: 1566-1776; Majority of material found within 1566-1626
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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