These reels contain selections from collections pertaining to the history of Guatemala.

An abstract of this University of Pennsylvania dissertation states, "Institutionalization of the Catholic Church in Guatemala, i.e., the process of continuous crystalization of norms, organization, and framework which regulate religious behavior, is the main object of this study."

This is a collection of documents relating to post-conquest social, cultural, and legal processes in Guatemala, which were culled from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville by the Hispanic-Latin American Research Project beginning in 1967.