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A large photo album containing panoramic views of Mexican cities and towns as well as photographs of major monuments and tourist sites in Mexico City. The album also illustrates the growth of the Mexican National Railroad, including images of locomotives and railroad tunnels and bridges. Photos date to the late nineteenth century and many can be attributed to known photographers or studios, including William Henry Jackson, Gove and North, and Abel Briquet.

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Photostat of a report concerning Franciscan missions among the Indians of New Mexico, written by Alonso de Benavides and presented to Pope Urban VIII, 12 February 1634.

In Italian.

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The personal scrapbook of Angelina Vértiz de Barthez. Included are numerous comments from admirers, autographs, and newspaper clippings, as well as some enclosures. Materials date from her first exhibition in 1946 to 1976. Included are exhibition announcements from 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, and 1976.

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Undated blank form banning import of all unlicensed books.

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Public edict by the Archbishop of Mexico stating that while the Inquisition may be extinct, the prohibitions on written works from the Indices expurgatorios are still active. Contains wax seal.

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A collection of photographs of Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929) activists and martyrs with accompanying semi-hagiographic text describing the lives, devotion, and deaths of each individual

Scope and Content Correspondence; historical and religious writings; and research and reference files on Bishop Simon Bruté, Father Stephen T. Badin, Girolamo Savonarola, early missions in Mexican America, Indiana Catholic history, and the Benedictine order in the United States. Also Schmitt's collection of autograph letters, calling cards, and signatures of authors, British and American legislators, presidents of the United States, archbishops, and cardinals (1777-1893). The papers of Father...

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A certificate appointing McKeon an army chaplain and general orders from the War Department (1918-1919); newspapers The Courier-Journal, Camp Zachary Taylor Edition (1918), and The Chicago Daily Hoosier (1913); and photographs.

Scope and Contents This collection contains documents relating to the Inquisitions of Spain, Italy, Portugal, Peru, and Mexico. Included are manuals and guidelines on proper conduct within the inquisition; accounts of trial procedures, prisoner sentences, and autos de fe; and certificates and books of privileges of the staff of the inquisitions. Also included are public edicts, papal bulls, and royal decrees published by various inquisitions relating to banned works, jurisdiction of the different inquisitions,...

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Extended text for Edict of Faith, requiring denunciations of various heresies; very extensive, mentioning specific Mexican practices, such as peyote use. Space for date left blank.

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Notice to booksellers and book owners that they must comply with inquisitorial expurgation orders.

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Guidelines for questioning witnesses and determining blood purity (limpieza). Space for date left blank.

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Blank form for apprehending and imprisoning enemies of the inquisition, with spaces for names, dates, and places left blank.

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Edict reminding confessors of inquisitorial jurisdiction over various sins and doctrinal errors, which cannot be otherwise absolved.

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Decree notifying local clergy of requirement that citizens declare all property pertaining to seized estates, and anathematizing those who fail to comply. Blank form, with spaces for details to be filled in.

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Edict banning illicit private religious gatherings and other devotional acts. Contains signatures and wax seal.

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Incomplete edict banning various works, including two works that are banned even to those with licenses.

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Edict denouncing a text by José Rojas, resident of Baltimore, Maryland. Contains signatures and wax seal.

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Edict banning fifty-five books and writings (including Gibbon's "Decline and Fall"), twenty-four of which are forbidden even to those with licenses, and expurgating six others. Contains signatures.

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Edict banning a proclamation by Joseph Bonaparte and a Mexican creole tract deemed insulting to the Spanish king Ferdinand VII. Contains signatures.

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Edict banning a proclamation by Joseph Bonaparte, as well as other writings including Nicolás Freret's "Lettres à Eugenie."

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Public edict banning the trade of unlicensed books within the city. Space for place and date left blank.

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Edict banning improper use of painted crosses, along with a book on philosophy. Contains signature.

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Edict banning certain devotional images.

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Ban on several books, including some pertaining to Catalan affairs and to a 1654 auto-de-fe held in Cuenca. Space for date left blank.

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Edict banning devotional objects, images, texts, etc. connected to Luisa de la Ascensión.

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Edict denouncing Joseph Bonaparte's pretensions in Spain and his encouragement of rebels in the Americas, banning all his proclamations and requiring parishioners to denounce clergy who support him.

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Public notice of sentence against Mexican priest and rebel leader Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, signed by inquisitors.

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This collection consists of oral history interviews conducted by Jean Meyer and others about the Cristero Rebellion in Mexico. Included are interviews with former military and government personnel who witnessed or participated in the Rebellion, as well as interviews with citizens of Mexico, and some samples of popular music in Spanish and Nahuatl. Materials include open reel audio tapes, audiocassettes, compact discs, and digital versatile discs.

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A collection of letters and other papers belonging to Jesús González Ortega, an important political and military figure in mid-19th century Mexico. The papers mainly relate to González Ortega's stay in the United States in 1865-1867, the efforts of Benito Juárez's government in Mexico to remove him from political office while he was away, and his detainment by the U.S. government in November 1866.