AMERICAN CONTACT
Creators: Anonymous
Date of Creation: 1813
Place of origin: San Antonio, Texas
Physical measurements: 12 pages. 12” x 8.25”
Materials: Paper and ink
Process by which it was made: Handwritten
Current location: Herbert Bolton Papers, Carton 45, Folder 22, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Information contributed by Raúl Coronado.
Creators: Judges, notaries, attorneys of the Audiencia de Quito, Baltazar Cárdenas, Luis Montesdoca.
Date of Creation: October 20, 1727.
Place of origin: Ecuador
Physical measurements: 45 folios (4 folios for the transcript) 20×30 cm.
Materials: Paper, iron gall ink
Process by which it was made: Handwriting
Current location: Archivo Nacional del Ecuador, Quito.
Further Reading
Burns, Kathryn. Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
Dean, Carolyn (2009) “Beyond prescription: notarial doodles and other marks” Word & Image, 25:3, 293-316
Herzog, Tamar. Upholding Justice: State, Law and the Penal System in Quito. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004
Hull, Matthew. Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan. University of California Press, 2012
Sellers-García, Sylvia. Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire’s Periphery. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2014.
Information contributed by Agnieszka Czeblakow.
Creators: George Cheney and Charles Althouse
Date of Creation: 1917
Place of origin: From Camden, NJ to Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and back to Camden, NJ.
Physical measurements: 12″ x 7″, 380 pp.
Materials: Paper, ink
Process by which it was made: Handwriting
Current location: SONY Archives, New York City.
Further Reading
Gronow, Pekka. “The Record Industry: The Growth of a Mass Medium.” Popular Music 3 (1983): 53–75.
Katz, Mark. Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music. Rev. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Schmidt Horning, Susan. Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Taylor, Timothy D., Mark Katz, and Tony Grajeda, eds. Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2012.
Information contributed by Sergio Ospina Romero.
Creators: The Sierra Leone Company founder Henry Thornton sent The Terms in a letter to William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Home Secretary, in October 1799. Sierra Leone colony Governor Thomas Ludlam, Maroon Superintendent George Ross, and Maroon captains Montague James, Andrew Smith, Charles Shaw, John Palmer, Thomas Johnstone, and a captain named only as Baily discussed revisions to The Terms on October 2, 1800
Date of Creation: 1799-1800
Place of origin: England and Freetown, Sierra Leone
Physical measurements: 2 pages, one covered on both sides and one single-sided
Materials: Paper and ink
Process by which it was made: Handwriting
Current location: National Archives, Kew, London, United Kingdom
Further Reading
Kenneth M. Bilby, True-born maroons (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005).
Ruma Chopra, Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018).
Mavis C. Campbell, The Maroons of Jamaica, 1655-1796 (Amherst, MA: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc., 1988).
Barbara Klamon Kopytoff, “Jamaican Maroon Political Organization: The effects of the Treaties,” Social and Economic Studies 25, no. 2 (June 1976), 87-105.
Cassandra Pybus, Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and their Global Quest for Liberty (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006).
Information contributed by Rachel B. Herrmann.