Texas State Archives Map Collection
Mapa de el Paraje donde esta' Cituado el Presidio y Misiones de S. Antonio donde empiezer la Provincia de Texas y hasta donde estan senaladas las Arboledas por una y otra parte es, una campina de Tierras muy llanas
Date: | 1730 |
Publisher: | -- None Listed -- |
Cartographer: |
San Miguel de Aguayo, Marques de, 1730 |
Scale: | none given |
Size: | 34 cm x 26 cm |
Type of Map: | general |
Format: | black & white, manuscript |
Language: | Spanish |
AC Number: | 01548 |
Photo Media: | 6x7 cm b&w neg., photo 1995/1-33-6 (made from positive photostat) |
File Size: | 13.05 MB |
Description:
Title Translated: (Map of the area on which is situated the presidio and missions of San Antonio, where the Province of Texas starts and until where it is marked the forested area on one side and the other is an area of very flat land)
Shows the Presidio of San Antonio, the missions San Antonio and San Jose, and the proposed Villa de San Fernando de Bexar or the Villa for the Canary Islanders. Roads, irrigation ditches, gardens, farm lands, trees, and bushes are also shown. This map is in Spanish.
The original map is in the Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico, Provincias Internas, volume 236. Size of original 31 cm x 41 cm. This map was also published in Herbert E. Bolton's Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century, 1915, preceding the introduction. The copy in our collection is a microfilm copy of the original.
6/27/83
Revised 10/23/97
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