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Armando de Maria y Campos Collection
MSS 0136
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Creator:
Maria y Campos, Armando de, 1897-
Title: Armando de Maria y Campos Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1633 - 1963
Extent:
0.40 linear feet
(1 archives box)
Abstract: Papers collected by Armando de Maria y Campos, Mexican poet, novelist, biographer, and journalist. Materials include a collection
of twentieth-century corridos, a list of Mexican periodicals, documents (1633-1818) related to the Conde del Valle de Orizaba,
and numerous historical documents related to Mexican history. The collection is arranged in four series: 1) CORRIDOS, 2)
PERIODICOS, 3) HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, and 4) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES .
Repository:
University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library.
La Jolla, California 92093-0175
Collection number: MSS 0136
Language of Material:
Collection materials in Spanish
Collection is open for research.
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Armando de Maria y Campos Collection, MSS 0136. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Armando de Maria y Campos was born in Mexico City on May 23, 1897. He attended the Instituto CientĆfico de México and in
1914 began a career in journalism by collaborating on El Estudiante and Churubusco. In 1915, he worked as a reporter for
EL LIBERAL; founded EL UNIVERSAL; managed MEFISTOFELES, EL HERALDO DE MEXICO, and EL ECO TAURINO. In addition to his activities
as a chronicler of Mexican theater, Maria y Campos also wrote poetry, novels, and plays. After 1940, he became better known
as a biographer and essayist. His service to the Mexican stage and theater won him a gold medal from the Asociación Nacional
de Actores in 1958.
Scope and Content of Collection
The ARMANDO DE MARIA Y CAMPOS COLLECTION contains historical documents related to Mexican history, twentieth-century corridos
and a list of Mexican periodicals.
The CORRIDOS series contains typescripts of corridos about the Mexican writer Vicente Lombardo Toledano, politics in the state
of San Luis Potosi and the Mexican Revolution.
The PERIODICOS series contains a typescript list of primarily revolutionary and liberal periodicals, but also a few from conservative
and socialist anarchist sources.
The HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS series contains individual documents related to Mexican history. Included are seven legal manuscript
documents (1633-1818), giving terms of lease agreements, contracts and inheritance for properties in Mexico held by successors
to the title Conde del Valle de Orizaba. Also included is an account of the founding of a poorhouse, the Hospicio de Pobres
(1769), by Fernando Ortiz Cortes, and a description of four decades of its financial and administrative problems.
SEPARATION LIST
A number of periodicals and broadsides have been separated from the collection and added to some of the department's other
collections. To identify and retrieve these items, search ROGER under the heading "Maria y Campos, Armando de, former owner.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Lombardo Toledano, Vicente, 1894-1968
Vivero Peredo y Velasco, Nicolás de, -- conde del Valle de Orizaba
Hurtado de Mendoza, Joseph
Valle de Orizaba, House of
Hospicio de Pobres (Mexico City, Mexico) -- History
Almshouses -- Mexico -- History
Land tenure -- Mexico
Mexico -- History -- 1540-1810
Mexico -- History -- 20th century
Mexico -- History -- Revolution -- 1910-1920 -- Literature and the revolution
Vivero Peredo y Velasco, Nicolás de, conde del Valle de Orizaba
Hurtado de Mendoza, Joseph