GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
California: CA-35

University of California-San Diego. UCSD Libraries 0175S
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093

Phone: 858-534-2533
Alternative website: Online Archive of California

 

Hours: See website

Access: No restrictions

Copying Facilities: Yes

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1770s?, 1844-1968

Volume: Ca. .3 cubic foot

Description: 3 collections include Native Catholic records:

 

/1 “Bancroft Family correspondence”

Inclusive dates: 1874

Volume: 3 folders

Description: Kate Bancroft’s journal describes travels with her father to the Franciscan missions in California; microfilm copy held at Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California.

 

/2 “Lewis Geddes Notebooks, MSS 0129”

Inclusive dates: 1930-1937, undated

Volume: 7 folders

Description: Notebooks with photographs and sketches (originals and copies) of San Diego de Alcalá Mission, Santa Barabara Mission, La Purísima Concepción de Maria Santisima Mission, and Santa Inés Mission in California; also translated transcripts of San Diego Mission baptismal and death records, 1770s? (dates not given).

 

/3 “Southwest Postcard Collection, MSS 235”

Inclusive dates: Ca. 1906-1968

Volume: Few items

Description: Franciscan missions in California.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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