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  | | 2 | Author:   | Alianza Hispano-Americana | Add to Favorites |  |   | Title:   | Alianza Hispano-Americana records, 
                        1894-1965
            1920-1950 ead |   |  |   | Date(s):   | 1894-1965 |   |  |   | Abstract:   | Papers relating to the Alianza
        Hispano-Americana, which offered low-cost life insurance, social activities, and other
        services to primarily Mexican/Mexican-Americans living in the United States and Mexico.
        Founded in Tucson in 1894, Alianza was one of the first organizations to offer life
        insurance and burial policies to Mexican-American citizens. This collections includes
        photographs, financial files, correspondence between lodge secretaries, convention files,
        published materials, scrapbooks, and ledges pertaining to the daily operations of Alizana.
        Many of the ledgers include membership enrollment information, including members, their
        addresses, and lodge information. |   |  |   | Repository:   | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections |   |  |   | Subjects:   | Sociedades mutualistas | Mexican Americans -- Arizona |   |  |   | Similar Items:   | Find Similar Guides |  
 | 3 | Author:   | Reavis, James Addison, 1843-1914. | Add to Favorites |  |   | Title:   | Account of Early Incidents Connected with the Peralta Grant,
            1894 ead |   |  |   | Date(s):   | 1894 |   |  |   | Abstract:   | James Addison Reavis, 1843-1914, was a swindler and forger, famous for attempting to 
      								fraudulently obtain 7,500 sq. miles of Arizona Territory by falsifying documents in Mexico and 
      								Spain to show a Spanish land grant to Don Miguel Peralta in 1748. Photocopy of typescript relates 
      								his version of events surrounding the Peralta land grant claim. This text was reproduced in 
      								The Peralta Grant; James Addison Reavis and the barony of Arizona, University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. |   |  |   | Repository:   | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections |   |  |   | Subjects:   | Land grants -- Arizona. | Peralta Grant. |   |  |   | Similar Items:   | Find Similar Guides |  
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