Seeing The Spanish Empire: Visual Sources from PARES

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This list represents what I could find through a combination of searching and looking in the archival hierarchies. If i missed something, please feel free to let me know. Due to the volume of sources (and a lack of interest on my part), I chose to focus on European sources before about 1850 and sources from the Americas from before 1898.

Archivo General de Indias

Archivo Histórico Nacional

The "MPD" volumes are semi-secret parts of the AHN's organization hierarchy only accesible through search. This section is built on search URLs and may break. If they do, please let me know.

So far as I am aware, all of these MPD sources are digitized, but many are embedded in larger volumes. To access these volumes, simply click on the "Location in the archive classification system" link and click the lowest entry down

  • CONSEJOS,MPD

    • A lovely map of the area around Montiel in Castilla,1781 (Description), (Contents)
    • A very detailed map of Menorca, 1781 (Description), (Contents)
    • Planta del nuevo paseo del Prado de Madrid - 1775 (Description), (Contents)
    • Plano de la plaza de la Cebada y su entorno con el hospital de La Latina de Madrid - 1622 (Description), (Contents)
    • Plano de la plaza de la Cebada y su entorno con el hospital de La Latina de Madrid (Description), (Contents)
    • Almanaques del año 1632 (Description), (Contents)
    • Dibujo de la plaza para espectáculo de castillo de fuego y novilladas de San Clemente (Cuenca) - 1792 (Description), (Contents)
    • Plano en planta y alzado de las calles que van desde la plaza del Zocodover al Carmen Calzado en la ciudad de Toledo - 1766 (Description), (Contents)
    • Retrato de Felipe II (Description), (Contents)
    • Dibujo en el que se representa el asesinato de Diego Troncoso a manos de la Ronda de Millones en la ciudad de Montilla (Córdoba) - 1715 (Description)

  • ESTADO,MPD - Maps and plans from the Indies until about 1830, mostly after the Bourbon Reforms. Scientific maps of Spain from the late 19th century.

  • INQUISICIÓN,MPD - Printed and visual materials having to do with the Inquisition. (Description), (Contents)
  • ULTRAMAR,MPD - Maps and plans from the Indies post-1830. Images from a book on Filipino earthquakes.

Archivo General de Simancas

  • Mapa del lugar y castillo de Zuccarello - 1568? (Description), (Contents)
  • Plan of a machine to raise fresh water from the river Tajo to the Alcazar of Toledo and supply the city - 1561 (Description), (Contents)
  • Artificial skeleton. Natural skeleton; Arteries. Veins. Portal vein. Nerves of the upper limbs. Nerves of the lower limbs - 1792 (Description), (Contents)
  • Map of the order of battle of the navies in the battle of Lepanto (Description), (Contents)
  • Floor and elevation plans of the gunboats designed by the Chief of Squadron don Antonio Barceló - 1779 (Description), (Contents)

Archivo de la Corona de Aragón

Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid

Archivo Histórico Provincial de Álava

Archivo Histórico de la Nobleza

These seem to very old and low resolution scans, but I included them here for the sake of completeness