Woodbury Lowery collection relating to Spanish settlements in the United States, 1517-1803.
Material type:
Mixed materialsLanguage: Spanish, English Description: 2,000 items; 18 containers; 2.4 linear feetSubject(s): - Frontier and pioneer life -- California
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Louisiana
- Frontier and pioneer life -- New Mexico
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas
- Spaniards -- California
- Spaniards -- Florida
- Spaniards -- Louisiana
- Spaniards -- New Mexico
- Spaniards -- Texas
- Spain -- Colonies -- America
- California -- History -- To 1846
- Florida -- History -- To 1821
- Louisiana -- History -- To 1803
- New Mexico -- History -- To 1848
- Texas -- History -- To 1846
- Editors
- Historians
- Lawyers
Open to research.
Bound volumes of material gathered and organized by Woodbury for the preparation of his unfinished history of "Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States." Volumes contain catalog records and handwritten transcripts of documents concerning settlements in California, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas.
Handwritten transcripts, in part. Place of transcription unidentified.
Maps and related card catalog transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
Publication by Fr. Juan Bernejo, Exposicion de puntas pertenecientes a la Provincia de Santa Elena de la Florida (Seville, 1739) transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Lawyer, editor, and historian.
Collection material in English and Spanish.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
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