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Appendix 4 747 T H E C A R N E G I E M A Y A The France V. Scholes Collection, curated at the Latin American Library, Tulane University, consists of approximately280 ,000photoprints,microfilms,andtypescripts of documents relating to the history of colonial Spanish America found in Spanish and Mexican archives , principally the Archivo General de Indias in SevilleandtheArchivoGeneraldelaNacióninMexico City, and collected primarily under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (http:// www.tulane.edu/~latinlib/scholescoll.html). The content of the documentation may be described , in general terms, under the following topical headings: 1. Documents that illustrate the character of Spanish colonial government and policy in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries with special reference to Mexico. 2. Documents that illustrate, in more specific detail, problems and policies of administration of the Indian population of Spanish America (with special emphasis on Mexico) in the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and particularly with reference to the encomienda system, forced labor for wages, and chattel slavery. 3. Materials relating to the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Guatemala, including several thousand pages of photoprints of the probanzas of merits and services of prominent conquistadores (including the Alvarado brothers) and the residencia of Pedro de Alvarado as governor of Guatemala. 4. Documents that illustrate the life and times of Hernando Cortes from 1521 (the year of his final victory over the Aztec Confederacy) to his death in Spain in 1547. These materials deal principally with the history of events in the chaotic decade of the 1520s, and with the history of the estate (Marquesado del Valle) founded by Cortes. The documentation on Cortes and his times, 1521–1547, includes the residencias of Cortes, the First Audiencia of Mexico, and early alcaldes mayores of Oaxaca. Scholes considered his collection of Cortes material the most extensive collection of unpublished Cortes documentation in the world. FRANCE V. SCHOLES COLLECTION, LATIN AMERICAN LIBRARY, TULANE UNIVERSITY 748 APPENDIX 4 5. Selected documents relating to the history of the Cortes Estate subsequent to 1547, especially with reference to litigation concerning execution of various provisions of Cortes’s last will and testament. 6. Selections from the correspondence of the viceroys and treasury officials of Mexico (sixteenth century), and miscellaneous documents on various topics of sixteenth-century Mexican history. 7. Extensive documentation relating to the history of Yucatán and the Maya area in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The documentation has value not only for students of colonial Spanish American and Mexican history, but also for those specializing in other disciplines, such as anthropology, ethnohistory, and art history. The corpus of material consists of the following items: 1. 180,000 units of enlargement photoprints from microfilm or, in a few cases, prints from photostat negatives. The size of these photoprints varies: some are 7½ x 10 inches; others are letter size (8½ x 11 inches); but the majority are legal size, that is, 11 x 14 inches or 11 x 16 inches. It should be noted that most of the photo-enlargement prints (and also films mentioned below) reproduce two pages of manuscript documentation. 2. 70,000 frames, or exposures, of 35 mm negative microfilm of documents. 3. 15,000 pages (letter size) of typescripts of documents . 4. The Archive File consisting of 12,000 to 14,000 cards (4 x 6 inches) that record data concerning content and organization of Spanish and Mexican archives with notations concerning documents reproduced, and also notations concerning documents examined, which may be useful for students of colonial Spanish American history. Access to the documents may be obtained by consulting the index card of documents description that Scholes prepared. The documents follow the order of this card index. These cards identify the documents by their archive provenance, provide a brief description of the documents or their titles, and indicate the formofreproduction(i.e.,photoprints,microfilm,typescripts , or in a few cases, handwritten cards) with the number of photographs, exposures, or pages. They are arranged alphabetically by archive and section, with the Spanish archives first, followed by the Mexican archives, then by other repositories. The arrangement of documents in the filing cabinets and of the microfilm in boxes is in the same order. The collection consists of reproductions of documents from the following archives and sections. The photoprints are found in the indicated filing cabinets. ARCHIVES OF SPAIN Archivo de Protocolos, Sevilla (APS); Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla (AGI): Contaduria, Contratacion, Escribania de Camara, Estado, Guadalajara, Guatemala , Indiferente General, Justicia, Mexico...

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