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Title: "Luz de barias providencias pedidas por el oydor Dr. Dn. Jacobo de Huertas...." Description: A series of proposals for stemming the illegal sale of silver and ensuring an adequate supply of the metal in Central America., 1576-1929 Box 1, Folder 8, Reel 1U

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Title: Merl LaVoy papers. Places: La Union, Ampala, Corinto, Puntarenas, Lima, Antofagasta, Mendoza, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro. Description: A collection of forty four items of memorabilia belonging to a Pathe Films newsman, who was assigned to cover President-elect Hubert Hoover's 1928 goodwill trip to El Salvador Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica?, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Included are newsletters from the USS Maryland and USS Utah (the ships Hoover sailed on); photograph caption sheets; lists of ship's officers, newsman and President-elect Hoover's party; menus; invitations; programs for scheduled port landings; copies of speeches by Brazilian dignitaries, a schedule from a Argentine railroad trip, and a Peruvian newspaper, 1928-1929 Box 2, Folder 22 - 24, Reel 1U

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Title: Miscellaneous volume of Enrique Guzman. Description: Handwritten copybook belonging to the Nicaraguan writer and politician, Enrique Guzman. The volume is composed of quotes, poetry, miscellaneous facts, literary passages, linguistic notes, historical information, "memorandum," and writings, some of which he wrote, some of which are drawn from other sources. Most passages are in Spanish, but portions of the volume are in French, Italian, Latin and English. Also found in the volume are envelopes addressed to Guzman, newspaper clippings of poems, and a circular commemorating the 100thanniversary of Guzman's birth., 1576-1929 Box 2, Folder 27, Reel 1U

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Title: Notes on Guatemalan Currency. Description: Document resulting from a meeting concerning the lack of currency circulating in Guatemala. Included are applicable royal laws and figures for the production, and the cost of production, of coinage by the Guatemalan mint., 1576-1929 Box 1, Folder 7, Reel 1U

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Title: "Papeleta de Guatemala....sobre el establecimiento del estanco de tabaco." Description: Brief note dealing with the popular resistance encountered to the establishment of the tobacco monopoly in Guatemala., 1576-1929 Box 1, Folder 10, Reel 1U

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Title: Petition to the Crown. Description: Petition from the members of the Guatemalan audiencia to the king of Spain requesting and justifying an increase in their annual salaries., 1576-1929 Box 2, Folder 15, Reel 1U

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Title: "Relación succinta de la rebentazón del volcán llamado Pacayita." Description: Brief report describing the eruption of the Volcano "Pacayita.", 1576-1929 Box 2, Folder 16, Reel 1U

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Title: Report on the Mosquito Coast. Description: Report by an unidentified author dealing with a proposed treaty of peace and commerce between the Zambos-Mosquitos and Spain. The report details the history of Zambos-Mosquitos, English involvement along Central America's Caribbean Coast, and proposes defensive measures to dislodge these interlopers from the region and end contraband trade., 1576-1929 Box 1, Folder 5, Reel 1U

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Title: Royal decree by the king of Spain. Place: San Lorenzo. Description: Decree addressed to the audiencia of Guatemala concerning the appointment of Geronimo Robledo as "Fiscal de Crimen" of the audiencia of Mexico, and explaining Robledo's delay in assuming his new duties., 1576-1929 Box 2, Folder 18, Reel 1U

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Title: Royal decrees by the king. Places: Seville, Madrid, San Ildefenso and Aranjuez. Description: Series of royal decrees related to the establishment and regulation of the Casa de Moneda (royal mint) in Guatemala, as well as the mining industry in Central America., 1731-1739 Box 1, Folder 4, Reel 1U

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