LISTING TO THE ENGEL SLUITER HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS COLLECTION 1925-1793 (bulk 1500-1648) Collection number: BANC MSS 98/79 z THE BANCROFT LIBRARY Funding to create this listing generously provided by the New Netherland Institute Contact Information: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, 94720-6000 Phone: (510) 642-6481 Fax: (510) 642-7589 Email:
[email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu Prepared by: Julie van den Hout Date Completed: 2016 © 2016 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 1 Language of Material: In English with some Spanish and Dutch. Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library Title: Engel Sluiter historical documents collection, 925-1793 (bulk 1500-1648) Creator/Contributor: Sluiter, Engel, 1906-, creator, collector. Abstract: Contains Engel Sluiter's research notes and copies and transcriptions of historical documents from archives throughout Europe and Latin America made during approximately 1930-2001. Subject matter concerns Dutch voyages to the Pacific during the early 17th century, Dutch-Iberian global rivalry between 1568 and 1648, Dutch, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese voyages to the New World; the transatlantic slave trade, the Nassau fleet, Newfoundland fisheries, Arctic exploration and whaling, and the complexities of imperial finances between the later sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth centuries. Contains notes, photocopies, and transcripts of historical research including a complete typescript English