Richmond Brown Research Collection on the Aycinena family of Guatemala and Central America

The Richmond Brown Research Collection on the Aycinena family of Guatemala and Central America dates from 1690 to 2014. The materials include manuscript transcriptions, research notes, articles, conference papers, photos, maps, electronic files, thesis, and dissertations. Most of the materials consist of the research he conducted on the Aycinena family of Guatemala. The majority of the documents are photocopies, some of these photocopied documents come from different archival institutions in Spain, Central America, and the United States. These include: Archivo de Protocolos de Navarra Pamplona, Archivo General de Centro América, Archivo General de Indias, Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cádiz, Archivo Museo Naval de Madrid, Archivo Histórico Nacional de Madrid, and the Collection of the Latin American Library of Tulane University Library.

The collection is arranged in alphabetical order in two series:

Series 1: Research materials related to the Aycinena family (1690-2010)- This series contains manuscript transcriptions, typed and handwritten research notes, photos, maps, articles, conference papers, biographical and bibliographical information, research notes on theses and dissertations from Tulane University graduate students, and electronic files related to the Aycinena family of Guatemala. The main members of the Aycinena family documented in the collection are: José de Aycinena, Mariano Aycinena, Manuel Francisco Pavón Aycinena, and Juan Fermín de Aycinena. This series also includes Richmond Brown’s dissertation “Family, business, and politics in Bourbon Central America: The rise of Juan Fermín de Aycinena, 1750-1796.”

Series 2: Research materials related to Central America (1821-1996)- This series contains topics on religion and the history of Central America, especially in Guatemala. The materials include travel accounts, research notes on thesis and dissertations from Tulane University graduate students, a review essay on nineteenth-century Latin America, and articles related to Central America.

The electronic files included in the collection contain research materials about the Aycinena family and Central America, articles and conference papers written by Richmond Brown, photocopies of archival manuscripts from the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas, Tulane University, and the Francisco Xavier Clavigero Library of the Ibero-American University of Mexico. It also includes dissertations from graduate students of Tulane University, George Washington University, and the University of San Carlos of Guatemala, and various photocopies of newspapers from Central America including "Seminario Político Mercantil de San Salvador", "Gaceta de Guatemala", "El Guatemalteco" and "El Indicador".