Clinton R. Edwards Papers, 1927-2000

Contents List

Container Title
Series: 1. Lectures, 1991-1992
Scope and Content Note: This series contains materials on lectures that Edwards gave, particularly for the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus discovering the New World, at the University of California, Los Angeles. There are notes, correspondence, illustrations, and slides.
Box   1
Folder   1
"Columbus's Navigation", 1991
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Folder   2
Miscellaneous, mapping and remote sensing, undated
Physical Description: 57 slides (35mm) 
Box   1
Folder   3
"On Maritime Matters", undated
Box   1
Folder   4
Quintana Roo, Mexico, fieldwork slides, undated
Physical Description: 81 slides (35mm) 
UCLA
Box   1
Folder   5
"Columbus: The Face of the Earth in the Age of Discovery", 1991
Box   1
Folder   6
"Columbus: Navigation", 1991-1992
Box   1
Folder   7
Columbus Quincentenary Programs, 1992
Box   1
Folder   8-9
"Early Ship Building", 1991-1992
Box   1
Folder   10
notes and bibliography, undated
Box   7
Folder   1
Summer Institute, photographs, 1991
Series: 2. Publications, 1959-1993
Scope and Content Note: This series contains Edwards' publications and papers, such as articles he wrote for various journals, materials for books, presentations he gave, and other writings. It includes manuscripts, reprints, notes, and correspondence. For Edwards' publications related to the Relaciones Geográficas, see Series 3.
Papers
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"Aboriginal Sail in the New World", 1965
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Folder   12
"Columbus' Navigation: His Portuguese Mentors", 1992
Box   1
Folder   13
"Discovery of Mexico and the Meaning of Discovery", undated
Box   1
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"Early Mapping of the Yucatán Peninsula", 1986
Box   1
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"European Discovery of Yucatán", 1987
Box   1
Folder   16
"Francisco Pizarro, Bartolomé Ruiz, the Raft, and the Tierra Buena", undated
Box   1
Folder   17
"Hypotheses on the Role of Watercraft in Southeast Asian Prehistory", 1968
Box   1
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"Maps and Minds", 1985
Box   1
Folder   19
"Maps and the Columbian Encounter", 1992
Box   1
Folder   20
"Maps and the Genesis of Columbus's Idea", 1992
Box   1
Folder   21
"Maps Before and After Columbus", 1993
Box   1
Folder   22
miscellaneous presentations and papers, 1982-1992, undated
Box   1
Folder   23
"Nautical Technology and Maritime Routes in Mesoamerica", 1972
Box   1
Folder   24
"Navigation in the Period of European Discoveries", undated
Box   1
Folder   25
"Objective of Pizarro's Third Voyage Toward Peru", 1991
Box   1
Folder   26
"Perspectives on Ancient Mariners", 1964
Box   1
Folder   27
"Peruvian Sailing Rafts: Problems of Their Origin", 1959
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Folder   28
"Possibilities of Pre-Columbian Maritime Contacts Among New World Civilizations", 1967-1971
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Folder   29
"Pre-Columbian Maritime Contact Between Mesoamerica and the Andean Highlands", 1976
Box   1
Folder   30
"Questions on Maritime Trade of Pre-Columbian Peru", 1975
Box   1
Folder   31
"South American Log Rafts", undated
Box   1
Folder   32
"Treasures of the American Geographical Society Collection", 1983
Publications
Box   1
Folder   33
"Aboriginal Sail in the New World", 1965
Box   1
Folder   34-35
Aboriginal Watercraft on the Pacific Coast of South America, 1963-1965
Box   1
Folder   36
book reviews, 1973-1994
Box   1
Folder   37
commentary in Man Across the Sea, 1971
Box   1
Folder   38
"Commercial Sail and Small Fishing Craft of Western South America", 1967
Box   1
Folder   39
"Design and Construction of 15th Century Iberian Ships", 1992
Box   1
Folder   40
"Discoveries of Mexico and the Meaning of Discovery", 1986
Box   1
Folder   41
"Impact of European Overseas Discoveries on Ship Design and Construction During the Sixteenth Century", 1992
Box   1
Folder   42
"Indians of Bodega-Tomales Region in California", 1969
Box   1
Folder   43
"Lancha Velera of Chiloé", 1966
Box   1
Folder   44
"New World Perspectives on Pre-European Voyaging in the Pacific", 1969
Box   1
Folder   45
"Possibilities of Pre-Columbian Maritime Contacts Among New World Civilizations", undated
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Folder   46
"Pre-Columbian Maritime Trade in Mesoamerica", 1974-1975
Box   1
Folder   47
"Recent Intensification of Resource Use in Quintana Roo, Mexico", 1980
Box   1
Folder   48
referee on Carl Sauer's Northern Mists, 1967
Box   1
Folder   49
"Sailing Rafts of Sechura", 1960
Box   1
Folder   50
"The Test of Time", 1992
Box   1
Folder   51
"Wandering Toponyms in California", correspondence and manuscript, 1964-1966
Box   6
Folder   1
"Wandering Toponyms in California", maps, lists, and notes, undated
Series: 3. Relaciones Geográficas, 1959-1974
Scope and Content Note

The Relaciones Geográficas are a remarkable testament to the efforts by the Spanish Crown to compile and systematize basic information about its New World colonies. Beginning with a questionnaire of 50 items in the 1570s (later ballooning to more than 300 in the 1580s) regarding a wide range of natural, cultural, and demographic phenomena, the administrative responses provide an extraordinary accounting of peoples and places encountered in the process of conquest and colonization. While they were given out in order for the Spanish to govern more effectively, they can now be considered an early statistical study of the New World.

This collection consists of manuscript copies of most of the surviving Relaciones Geográficas known at the time (1970s), personally garnered from the General Archive of the Indies (Seville), major University Libraries, and other sources by Edwards. Also included are Edwards' descriptions, notes, and analyses of the materials, reprints of his publications, and ancillary materials, primarily reprints of significant scholarly treatments of the Relaciones Geográficas and their context. Especially noteworthy are papers of historian Howard Cline, long-time Director of the Hispanic Foundation of the Library of Congress, whose interest in the Relaciones Geográficas is reflected in his publications, and especially in a copy of his card catalogue of relevant documents from the General Archive of the Indies.

Ancillary Materials
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Folder   52
Bibliographic Aids, undated
Cline, Howard F.
Box   1
Folder   53-54
archive card file copy, 1973
Box   1
Folder   55
correspondence, 1963-1973
Box   1
Folder   56
"List of Writings 1940-1967", 1967
Box   1
Folder   57
notes on Relaciones Geográficas of South America, undated
Box   1
Folder   58
"Relaciones Geográficas: Geographic Aspects", undated
Box   1
Folder   59
"Relaciones Geográficas of the Spanish Indies 1577-1586", 1964
Box   1
Folder   60
Valladolid, Yucatán, reprints, 1959-1967
Box   1
Folder   61
Cabrero, Leoncio F., notes, undated
Box   1
Folder   62
Genet, Jean, notes, undated
Box   1
Folder   63
Lanzas, Pedro Torres, notes and reprint, undated
Box   1
Folder   64
Latorre, Germán, notes and reprint, undated
Box   1
Folder   65
León Pinelo, Antonio de, notes and reprint, undated
Box   2
Folder   1-2
reprints of articles, undated
Box   2
Folder   3
Vilar, Sylvia, correspondence, notes, and reprint, 1970-1971
Edward's Publications
Box   2
Folder   4
"Geographical Coverage of the Sixteenth Century Relaciones de Indias From South America", manuscript and correspondence, 1978-1980
"Mapping By Questionnaire"
Box   2
Folder   5-7
analytical notes to questions, undated
Box   2
Folder   8
correspondence and research materials, 1969, undated
Box   2
Folder   9
notes on eclipses of the moon, 1967
Box   2
Folder   10-11
"The Relaciones de Yucatán as Sources for Historical Geography", notes, reprint, and correspondence, 1974-1975, undated
General Files
Box   2
Folder   12
Bibliography, undated
Box   2
Folder   13
Correspondence, 1965-1992
Box   2
Folder   14
Handbook of Middle American Indians Project, 1962
Box   2
Folder   15
List of Colonial Governors 1577-1594, undated
Box   2
Folder   16
"Lost Relaciones", undated
Box   2
Folder   17
Miscellaneous Lists, 1973, undated
Notes From
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Folder   18
Archivo General de Indias, 1972-1973
Box   2
Folder   19
Archivo General de Simancas, 1973
Box   2
Folder   20
Biblioteca Nacional de España, 1973
Box   2
Folder   21
Library of Congress, 1974
Box   2
Folder   22
University of Texas at Austin, undated
Box   2
Folder   23
Questionnaire Translation Issue, 1968
Box   2
Folder   24
Responses to Instruction, 1973
Box   2
Folder   25
Review by Political Subdivision, undated
Manuscript Copies, Translations, and Notes by Region
Box   2
Folder   26
Argentina, 1973
Box   2
Folder   27
Bolivia, 1973
Box   2
Folder   28-36
Colombia, 1973
Box   2
Folder   37
Costa Rica, 1974
Box   2
Folder   38
Ecuador, 1973
Box   2
Folder   39-41
Guatemala, 1973, undated
Mexico
General
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Folder   42
Brand, Donald D., 1962
Box   2
Folder   43
list of cabeceras, undated
Box   2
Folder   44
Orozco, Federico Gomez de, undated
Box   2
Folder   45
Stampa, Manuel Carrera, 1969
Box   6
Folder   2
Velasco, J. Lopez de, 1963
Box   6
Folder   3
Michoacán, undated
Box   2
Folder   46
Tabasco, undated
Yucatán
General
Box   2
Folder   47
Alomia, Gustavo Martinez, undated
Box   2
Folder   48
Chi, Antonia G., undated
Box   6
Folder   4
lists, distribution, and notes, 1972
Box   2
Folder   49
royal instructions to governor, undated
Mérida
Box   2
Folder   50
analyses, undated
Box   6
Folder   5
lists and notes, undated
Box   2
Folder   51
locations, undated
Box   3
Folder   1-2
manuscripts, undated
Valladolid
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Folder   6
dates and comparison, undated
Box   3
Folder   3
general, undated
Box   3
Folder   4-5
manuscripts, undated
Box   6
Folder   7
Peru, 1972-973
Box   3
Folder   6
Puerto Rico, 1973
Box   3
Folder   7
South America, undated
Box   3
Folder   8-13
Venezuela, 1973
Series: 4. Research Aids, 1941-1993
Scope and Content Note: This series contains materials Edwards used in his research. Like the Relaciones Geográficas, it is primarily composed of copies of articles and manuscripts, with notes on them and some related correspondence. It also includes materials that supported his research, such as audio/visual materials.
Columbus
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Folder   14
Bartholomew's map, undated
Box   3
Folder   15
bibliography and historiography, 1992, undated
Box   3
Folder   16
Cabot and Day, 1993, undated
Box   3
Folder   17
cartographic impact, undated
Box   3
Folder   18
centennials, 1989, undated
Box   3
Folder   19
Ferrara manuscript, undated
Box   3
Folder   20
general, undated
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Folder   21
grant proposal, translation of Columbian materials, 1992
Box   3
Folder   22-24
his ships, undated
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Folder   25
"Informatione de Bartolomé Colón", 1973
Box   3
Folder   26
landfall, 1989, undated
Box   3
Folder   27
navigation, 1941-1953, undated
Box   3
Folder   28
Zorzi manuscript, undated
General Files
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Folder   29
archives, undated
Box   3
Folder   30-32
bibliographies, 1965, undated
Box   3
Folder   33
maritime museums, 1960-1962
Box   3
Folder   34
Peru, early accounts, undated
Box   3
Folder   35
pilots, masters, and shipowners, undated
Box   3
Folder   36-37
Mesoamerican and South American Trade and Contact, 1969-1971, undated
Box   7
Folder   2
Negatives, miscellaneous, 1964, undated
Physical Description: 861 safety film negatives 
Box   7
Folder   3
News Reports, 1963
Physical Description: 2 audio cassettes 
Box   7
Folder   4
Photographs, ships, undated
Box   4
Folder   1
Pre-Columbian Cultural Diffusion, 1958-1966, undated
Box   4
Folder   2-3
Peru, discovery and early voyages, undated
Primitive Watercraft
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Folder   4
Africa, undated
Box   4
Folder   5
Asia and Australia, 1962-1977, undated
Box   4
Folder   6
Europe, 1979-1985, undated
Box   4
Folder   7
general, undated
Box   4
Folder   8
new world, 1992, undated
Box   4
Folder   9
Oceania, 1957-1961, undated
Box   4
Folder   10-11
South America, undated
Quintana Roo, Mexico
Box   4
Folder   12-13
manuscripts, undated
Box   7
Folder   5
recordings, 1970
Physical Description: 3 audio cassettes 
Box   7
Folder   6
Slides, miscellaneous, 1970-1991, undated
Physical Description: 60 slides (35mm) 
Box   6
Folder   8
Wandering Toponyms, undated
Box   4
Folder   14-16
Yucatán, discovery, undated
Series: 5. University Files, 1927-2000
Scope and Content Note: This series is comprised of files on university matters, from Edwards' time as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, to his teaching career at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The series contains correspondence, notes, writings, grant applications for research, and other administrative records.
Student at UC-Berkeley
Box   4
Folder   17-18
Correspondence from the Field, 1957-1958
Field Notes
Box   4
Folder   19
Central America and Ecuador, 1958-1959
Box   4
Folder   20
lists, distribution, and glossary, 1957-1960
Box   4
Folder   21
Peru and Chile, 1958-1959
Box   4
Folder   22
Quintana Roo, 1970
Box   4
Folder   23
Lists and Dissertations, 1927-1967
Box   4
Folder   24
MA Thesis, "Quintana Roo: Mexico's Empty Quarter", 1957
Box   4
Folder   25
"On the New World Indigo", undated
Box   4
Folder   26
PhD Announcements, 1936-1964
Box   4
Folder   27-28
PhD Dissertation, "Aboriginal Watercraft", 1965
Sauer, Carl O.
Box   4
Folder   29
obituaries, reviews, and commentaries, 1975-2000, undated
Box   4
Folder   30-31
copies of articles, 1930-1981, undated
Box   5
Folder   1
"Report on Integrated Study of Land Problems", copy, undated
Teaching and Administration
Correspondence
Box   5
Folder   2
Andrews, Tony, 1988
Box   5
Folder   3
Buisseret, David, 1985
Box   5
Folder   4
building the schooner "Dennis Sullivan", 1992
Box   5
Folder   5
limestone quarry in Quintana Roo, 1989
Box   5
Folder   6
miscellaneous, 1965-1996
Box   5
Folder   7
Smith, Tom, 1982
Box   5
Folder   8
Geography 930, teaching materials, 1976-2000, undated
Grants
Box   5
Folder   9
"Columbus Project", Department of Education, 1985-1988
Box   5
Folder   10
"Environmental Impacts of Resource Mobilization", National Science Foundation, 1977
Box   5
Folder   11
"First Spanish Landing in Mexico", National Geographic Society, 1990
Box   5
Folder   12
"Small Mexican Coastal Watercraft", Fulbright-Hays Program, 1972
Box   5
Folder   13-14
"South American Boats", Foreign Field Research Program, 1956-1973
Box   5
Folder   15
Lectures, miscellaneous, undated
Box   5
Folder   16
Library Committee, 1983
Box   5
Folder   17
National Endowment for the Humanities, planning committee, 1990
Box   5
Folder   18
Review Editor, Current Geographical Publications, 1982-1984