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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Popayan Papers, #11500, Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased 1954.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A more complete finding aid for this collection is linked to this finding aid in the Scope and Content note below.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Agriculture--Colombia--History.
• Arboleda family.
• Arroyo family.
• Colombia--Religion--18th century.
• Colombia--Religion--19th century.
• Colombia--Social conditions--18th century.
• Colombia--Social conditions--19th century.
• Cordova family.
• Delgado family.
• Families--Colombia--Social life and customs.
• Hurtado family.
• Latin America--History--Wars of Independence, 1806-1830.
• Mines and mineral resources--Colombia--History.
• Mosquera family.
• Perez family.
• Popayan (Colombia)--History.
• Quinine industry--Colombia--History.
• Valencia family.
• Varila family.

The collection includes correspondence and other items, chiefly 1750-1860, of succeeding generations of several interrelated aristocratic families whose members were prominent in business, the church, and government of Popayan, Colombia, capital of the department of Cauca. The papers concern family matters, religious institutions, mining, stock-raising and farming, production and marketing of quinine, legal transactions and cases, and political revolutions of the nineteenth century. Principal families represented are Valencia, Perez, Arroyo, Varila, Arboleda, Hurtado, Cordova, Delgado, and Mosquera.

The original finding aid contains more detailed information about the collection's contents.

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