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Collection

Baja California

Extent

1386 digital objects.

Description

Municipal and government documents relating to official policies, civil matters, contracts, litigation, war, and state infrastructure development in Baja California, including Santo Tomás, Rosarito, Mexicali, Ensenada, Tecate, Tijuana, and other towns and cities.

Documents include official handwritten correspondence, petitions, requests to purchase land, settlements and maps, mine registers, and other materials that document daily life and municipal administration in Baja, throughout the turbulent period including the Mexican War, 1846-1848, with special emphasis on the Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920.

Creation Date

• 1831-1982 (bulk 1900-1925)

Location Of Originals

From the Baja California Government Documents Collection. MSS 778. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Geographics

• Baja California (Mexico)
• Baja California (Mexico: Peninsula)
• Ensenada (Baja California, Mexico)
• Mexicali (Mexico)
• Mexico
• Mexico City
• Rosarito (Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico)
• Santo Tomás (Baja California, Mexico)
• Tecate (Mexico)
• Tijuana (Baja California)

Topics

• Land tenure
• Maps
• Mines and mineral resources
• Revolution (Mexico : 1910-1920)

Formats

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• cartographic
• image
• text

Language

• Spanish; Castilian

Related Resources

Online finding aid

• Baja California Government Documents Collection

Other resource

• Photograph album, Distrito Norte de la Baja California, Mex. : al C. Primer Jefe del E. C. encargado del poder ejecutivo de la nacion, circa 1915-1920.