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Packet I - Maps of the New World, North America, Western Hemisphere, showing New Mexico, and maps of New Mexico, 1631-1766

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Packet I, Map 1, 1583, 1598 - Routes of Espejo and Farfan to the Mines, and alternate routes, no date, black/white photocopy, in English. This map was prepared by Katharine Bartlett for her article of the same name in the New Mexico Historical Review, January 1942. It shows the 1583 route of the colonial Spanish explorer Antonio de Espejo and the 1598 trip of Captain Marcos Farfan, who accompanied Juan de Onate, into the region of central and northern Arizona looking for mines, as described to them by the Hopis. Map also gives pueblos abandoned before 1583, locations of water, rivers and creeks, the Hopis, Camp Verde, Jerome mines, and some modern locations, such as Route 66 to Winslow and Flagstaff, etc. Map 1 transferred to CSWR map collection. Call # tbd.

Packet I, Map 2, 1602 - Martinez Map of New Mexico, 1602, by Spanish cartographer, Enrique Martinez, print, black and white, reproduction, on cream paper, in Spanish. It was printed courtesy of France V. Scholes. This map has a legend, noting a few of the names and locations on the map extending from Mexico City, Zacatecas, Santa Barbara and the Rio Conchos to Taos. It shows the Rio de Norte or Rio Grande, Mesilla, Nueva Sevilla, Socorro, the Pueblo villages, San Gabriel, capitol of Onate, Galisteo, the Native American pueblos of the Descanjaques, on the plains laying northeast of New Mexico, etc. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection. Map 2 transferred to CSWR map collection. Call # G43220 1602 M3 Martinez Map of New Mexico, after 1602.

Packet I, Map 3, 1631 - America Noviter Delineata, by cartographer, Henrico Hondio, print, black and white, in Latin, published by the Bancroft Library, University of California. This map shows the New World, the Western Hemisphere, North America, and extends from the tip of South American to the Arctic Circle and Greenland. It includes New Spain, California, as a peninsula, New Mexico, Florida, New England and New France. Various Native American groups are shown. It has the western edge of Spain and Africa and a subset of Greenland, and one for Australia as unknown land. Map 3 transferred to CSWR map collection. Call # G3290 1631 .H6 c.1 America noviter delineata (21686452).

Packet I, Map 4, 1674 - Amerique Septentrionale, the New Word, the Western Hemisphere, North America, by the geographer, Nicolas Sanson, photocopy, black and white, in French. The cartographer is Hubert Iailliot. There are two parts for this map. Map 4, Part a, 1674 - The left half extends from Guatemala to Hudson Bay, and shows Mexico, Nueva Vizcaya, California, as an island, New Mexico. It has the lands of the Hopis, Navajos and Apaches Vaqueros. It also includes Florida, the western part of New France and the Native Americans of those lands.

Packet I, Map 4, Part b, 1674 - The right half of the map extends from the northern edge of South America to Greenland and the Arctic Circle. It covers the Caribbean Islands, the Atlantic coast line, showing Florida, New England and New France. It notes the boundaries of the colonies and includes the Spanish, French, English, Danish, Holland and Swedish settlements and the lands of the Native Americans, such as the Apalache and Iroquis. It includes the Azores Islands and those off the coast of England.

Packet I, Map 5, Part a, 1688 - America Settentrionale, the New World, the Western Hemisphere, North America, by the geographer Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, print, in Italian. This map has two separate parts. Map 5, Part a, 1688 - The left half of the map extends from Chiapas and Yucatan north to California and eastward covering Nueva Vizcaya, Sinaloa, New Mexico and Texas. It shows California as an island. It continues to the Mississippi River and up to Hudson Bay and includes eastern New France, the Illinois country, etc. Also shown are the settlements of the Europeans and the various Native American lands. In New Mexico they are the Pueblo villages, the Hopis, Piros, Apaches, Jumanos, Sumas, etc. Map 5 a transferred to CSWR map collection. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection. Call # G3300 1688 .C6 America Settentrionale colle nuoue scoperte fin al'anno 1688, diuisa nelle sue parti secundo lo stato (871359638).

Packet I, Map 5, Part b, 1688 - The right half of the map extents from the northern edge of South America, Panama, eastern Mexico and the Caribbean islands to the Great Lakes, Greenland and the North Sea. This map shows the European settlements and Native American groups in part of Guatemala, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, Florida, New England and New France or Canada. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection. Map 5 b transferred to CSWR map collection. Call # G9100 1691 .C6 Mare del Nord (900446913).

Packet I, Map 6a, copy 1, ca. 1680 - The Coronelli Map of New Mexico, from the Library of Congress, photocopy, black and white. This is a reduced copy of the map entitled Le Nouveau Mexique appelé aussi Nouvelle Grenade et Marata. Avec Partie de Californie, by Italian cosmographer, Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, ca. 1680. It covers the northern region of New Spain, and extends from Zacatecas and California, as an island, to Taos, with a concentration on the places in the Rio Grande valley and the area west of the river. It includes the Native American groups and Spanish settlements.

Packet I, Map 6b, copy 2, same as above, The Coronelli Map of New Mexico, but without the title or date at the bottom, photocopy, black and white, from the Library of Congress.

Packet I, Map 7, ca. 1744 - Trabajo Personal que en la inspeccion …, by the visitador, Fray Juan Miguel Menchero, dedicated to Viceroy Juan Francisco Guemes y Horcasitas, Conde de Revillagigedo (1746-55), photocopy, black and white, in Spanish. A stamp on the map says it is from the Koenigl. Kartograph. Institut. Berlin. Menchero was visiting the missions of New Mexico. The map has a legend listing some of the main places on the map, the Rio Conchos and settlements in the Chihuahua area, Nueva Vizcaya, Sonora, the Rio Grande, the presidios, missions, Pueblo villages, Hopi and Navajo lands and Spanish towns. Among them are the Rancho de Ojo Caliente, Taos, Atrisco, Albuquerque, Bernalillo, Galisteo, the El Paso area missions, the location of the 1720 Villasur massacre and other features. Note on top of map says Lowery W. L. 388a, map belonged to Adams).

Packet I, Map 8, 1756, 1747 - untitled map, ca. 1971, by historian John Kessell, for his article, “Campaigning the Upper Gila, 1756,” for the New Mexico Historical Review, April 1971. The map was hand drawn map on construction paper with pencil, written in English, with Spanish place names. The map and article are about the 1756 routes of Bernardo Antonio de Bustamante de Tagle and Gabriel Antonio de Vildosola into the area of the Apaches. The map also has the 1747 route of Alonso Victores Rubi de Celis. The map shows the Spanish activities in southwestern New Mexico, eastern Arizona, and northern Sonora and Nueva Vizcaya. Included are presidios, Apacheria, the Sierra de Mogollon, the San Francisco River, Todos los Santos, Santa Lucia and San Francisco Xavier, which are near present day Lordsburg, Silver City, and Cliff, Arizona. This map is scanned on New Mexico Digital Collection.

Packet I, Map 9, 1760s - Plan de la Tierra que se andubo, y descubrio en la Campana que hizo Contra los Cumanches, 1760s, drawn for Governor Juan Bautista de Anza, in Spanish. It shows the northern region of Nuevo Mexico that was explored during the campaign against the Comanches, Cuerno Verde. The map runs from Santa Fe to Taos and southern Colorado and west to the Rio Chama. It also includes the Rio Grande, Rio Colorado, Rio Napeste, Rio de Castilla, the origins of the Red River, Conejos River, and other rivers, as well as the Pueblo villages and Spanish towns, the Valle de los Bacas or the Valle Grande or Valles Caldera, etc. Photocopy, black/white. Adams’s note from E. E. Ayer Collection, AGI, Sevilla, 103-5-19.

Packet I, Map 10a, copy 1, 1766 - Plano de la Villa de Santa Fe, 1766, capital of New Mexico, photocopy, black and white, good quality, from the British Museum, in Spanish. This is a map of the Villa de Santa Fe. The map legend lists various municipal sites, including St. Francis Church, San Miguel Church, Our Lady of Light Chapel, Palace of the Governors and the Barrio de Analco, plus other buildings, fields, acequias, roads and the Santa Fe River. There is a 1976 colored print of this map in the CSWR map collection.

Packet II, Map 10b, copy 2, Plano dela Villa de Santa Fe, 1766, negative, black and white.

Dates

  • 1631-1766

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 20 boxes (14.25 cu. ft.), plus 1 oversize folder

Repository Details

Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451