Library Guides: The Latin American Library Special Collections: Discovery Tools: Print & PDF Collection Guides

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Our print & PDF collection guides are excellent resources to:

find more details about the collection you're consulting (such as history, arrangement and contents of boxes, and more)
browse collections by name and number, rather than searching by keywords

The below finding aids are available for consultation in the LAL special collections reading room:

Collection Guide Binders

Organization: alphabetical by collection name
Contain information on and descriptions of the manuscript, image, and ephemera collections in LAL Special Collections

Listing of Special Collections at the Latin American Library

Martha & Donald Robertson Collection, 1934-1992 (MSS Collection 125)

Introduction to the Viceregal & Ecclesiastical Mexican Collection
Overview of the Viceregal & Ecclesiastical Mexican Collection
Viceregal & Ecclesiastical Mexican Collection Guide
Detailed guide to the c. 3,000 dossiers relating principally to late colonial Mexico (1770-1820), originating in the offices of the Viceroy, Real Audiencia, and bishops of New Spain. Included are church records and inventories, censuses, notarial files, laws and decrees, civil and ecclesiastical suits, and land disputes, with many documents that concern Indian affairs and problems with the church.
Seymour B. Liebman Collection Guide
Guide to Liebman's research papers and transcriptions relating to the Jews in Latin America (1573-1790; 1874-1889; 1915-1986). Seventeen bound volumes of transcriptions of 16th and 17th century Inquisition documents mostly from Mexico and Peru. The materials concern the trials and sentencing of people, many of whom are women, accused of practicing the Jewish faith. Notes by Liebman in the bound volumes indicate pages with information on Jewish rites, practices, and prayers. Other 19th and 20th century documents relate to the establishment of Jewish cemeteries in Lima. Included also are photocopies of Mexican Jewish newspapers as well as other forms of documentation of Jews in Mexico and South America. 700 pieces
Richard E. Greenleaf 18th Century Ecclesiastical Mexican Collection

More PDF guides coming soon.