GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Texas: TX-3

Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Texas State Archives
Lorenzo De Zavala State Archives & Library Building
Capitol Complex
1201 Brazos Street
P.O. Box 12927
Austin, TX 78711

Phone: 512-463-5455
Email: info@tsl.texas.gov

Alternative website: See -- Texas Archival Resources Online

 

Hours: See website

Access: See website 

Copying facilities: Yes 

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: Between late 17th century-1999 

Volume: Less than 1 cubic foot 

Description: Within 4 collections. 

 

/1 “Archivo General de Indias, MS I. 1”

Inclusive dates: late 17th-19th centuries 

Volume: Few items 

Description: Selected records (copies) from Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain; in Spanish.   

 

/2 “Archivo General de Mexico, MS I. 2” 

Inclusive dates: late 18th-early 19th centuries

Volume: Few items 

Description: Selected records (copies) from Archivo General de Indias, Mexico City, Mexico; in Spanish.    

 

/3 “Texas Historical Commission, Architecture Division Records” 

Inclusive dates: 1981-1999

Volume: Few items 

Description: Needs assessment files with correspondence, clippings, photographs, and notes of endangered historic Franciscan missions in Texas; re: Our Lady of Mount Carmel (El Paso/ Ysleta), replica of San Francisco de los Tejas, San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz, and Nuestra Señora de Los Delores de Los Ais Missions, and a site of visita of Espíritu Santo Mission; finding aid online, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/index.html.   

 

/4 “State Parks Board Records”

Inclusive dates: Mostly between 1933-1949

Volume: Few items

Description: Re: Acquisition, development, and maintenance of San José y San Miguel de Aguayo Mission, San Antonio, Texas, an historic Franciscan mission now on state park lands, re; finding aid online, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/index.html.   

 

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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