Box SC0067 Oversize
Container
Contains 2 Collections and/or Records:
Stock certificates
File — Box: SC0067 Oversize, Folder: 3712.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains stock certificates from the Bessemer Land and Improvement Co. (1887-1888) and the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land Co. (1905-1918).
Dates:
1887-1918
Illustrated Manuscript
Item — Box: SC0067 Oversize, Folder: 4291.01
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The illustrated manuscript depicts a local elite, Don Carlos Guevara, and his family. The unknown author uses intensely vulgar language to express his disdain for Guevara and his family, whose circumstances have recently changed and left them in poverty. The image shows a demonic, goat-like man with wings holding a hammer, with a Spanish banner streaming behind him as he rides a horse, which appears exhausted and abused. The demonic man appears to wield the hammer at an indigenous man and woman...
Dates:
circa 1750