Library Guides: Spain in the Southwest: Finding Primary Sources

Finding Archival Collections

ArchiveGrid
A collection of nearly two million archival material descriptions, including MARC records from WorldCat and finding aids harvested from the web.
Heritage
The online catalog of the New Mexico State Archives
Office of Ethnohistorical Research
Click on "Search the DRSW Master Index / Biofile Southwest" to discover relevant documents.

Americana
Provides cross-searchable access to millions of pages of essential American history, literature and culture. Uncover captivating manuscript and typescript letters, diaries, notebooks, journals, newspapers, plus incredible art works, illustrations, photographs, video and 360-degree objects.
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
Allows users to explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.

New Mexicio Digital Collections
"New Mexico Digital Collections is a central search portal for digital collections about New Mexico. A service of the University of New Mexico Libraries, we provide access to digitized photographs, manuscripts, posters, oral histories, videos, maps, and books from libraries, museums, and cultural centers across the state."
Diary in Early Americas Digital Archive
Diario y Derrotero
An Electronic Edition
Francisco Atanasio Domínguez 18th CenturyFrancisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante18th Century
Original Source: Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante. Derrotero y Diario de los R.R.P.P. Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez y Fray Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, para descrubir el camino desde el Presidio de Santa Fe del Nuevo Mexico, al de Monterey, en la California Septentrional. Manuscript housed in the special collections of the University of Arizona.