Texas State Archives Map Collection



Mapa de plano y perfil de la Poblacion que se ha de hazer la qual esta arreglada a las leyes Reales de Indias…
Date: 1730
Publisher: -- None Listed --
Cartographer: de Villasenor, D. Joseph, [1730]
Scale: 1 3/4 inches = 600 ft.gm.
Size: 28 cm x 43 cm
Type of Map: plan
Format: black & white, manuscript
Language: Spanish
AC Number: 01547
Photo Media: -- None Listed --
File Size: 10.58 MB

Mapa de plano y perfil de la Poblacion que se ha de hazer la qual esta arreglada a las leyes Reales de Indias… Image:

Description:
Title Translated: (Map of the plan and profile of the town made in accordance with the royal laws of the Indies...) Plan of the Villa of San Fernando de Bexar, showing the plaza, streets, and buildings. Specifications of these are given in the title found in the cartouche. Inset: [Three dimensional sketch of the town.] This map is in Spanish. The original map is in the Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico, Provincias Internas, volume 326. Size of original 49 cm x 76 cm. This map was also published in Herbert E. Bolton's Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century, 1915, opposite page 6. The copy in our collection is a microfilm copy of the original. 6/27/83

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