- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Iturbe e Iraeta family
- Title:
- Iturbe e Iraeta Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gt54kn093
- Dates:
- 1754-1878 (mostly 1781-1845)
- Size:
- 10 boxes and 3.4 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-10
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
Consists of records of three successive generations of the Iturbe e Iraeta, a prominent, Mexican merchant family of Basque origin, active in Mexican colonial and interregional trade from the 1760s to the 1840s.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of records of three successive generations of the Iturbe e Iraeta. Comprised of ledgers, letter books, collected incoming correspondence, commercial and hacienda accounts, and some personal papers (some of it on microfilm), the collection documents the family's Mexico-based mercantile trade activities (in cochineal, cocoa, sugar, etc.) and landed wealth during an important period of economic growth and political change. Included are letters to and from a variety of noted Mexican government and church officials, as well as prominent colonial merchants, miners, and nobility.
- Collection Creator Biography:
The Iturbe e Iraeta family was a prominent Mexican merchant family of Basque origin that was active in Mexican colonial and interregional trade from the 1760s to the 1840s.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
The collection was purchased in 1980 .
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Emily Garcia in the fall of 2008. Finding aid written by Emily Garcia in the fall of 2008.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Iturbe e Iraeta Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gt54kn093
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-10
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Basques -- Mexico -- History -- Sources.
Cochineal -- Mexico.
Cocoa -- Mexico.
Indigo -- Mexico.
Mineral industries -- Mexico -- History -- Sources.
Sugar trade -- Mexico. - Genre Terms:
- Account books -- Mexico.
Commercial correspondence, Mexican.
Commercial correspondence, Spanish.
Ledgers -- Mexico.
Merchants -- Mexico -- 18th century.
Merchants -- Mexico -- 19th century. - Places:
- Mexico -- Church history -- Sources.
Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810 -- Sources.
Mexico -- History -- 1821-1861 -- Sources.
Mexico -- History -- Wars of Independence, 1810-1821 -- Sources.
Mexico -- Politics and government.
Mexico -- Social conditions.
Mexico City (Mexico) -- History -- Sources.
