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Archibald, Albert William, 1840-. Southern Colorado Coal and Town Company : [collection] : 1883 ;.

Title: Southern Colorado Coal and Town Company : [collection] : 1883 ;.

Contains photocopied legal documents.

ArchivalResource: linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31140414 View

Barlow, Samuel L. M. (Samuel Latham Mitchill), 1826-1889. Papers of Samuel L. M. Barlow, 1776-1905 (bulk 1885-1889).

Title: Papers of Samuel L. M. Barlow, 1776-1905 (bulk 1885-1889).

Personal and professional papers of Samuel L. M. Barlow. The collection contains letters (including 53 tissue copy letter books), documents, records, and manuscripts and documents Barlow's legal, business, and political career, and his cultural and social pursuits. Barlow's legal and business papers constitute the bulk of the collection and cover 1855-1889. This portion of the collection deals with financing, building and management of railroads -- both Eastern and Western divisions of the Ohio and Mississippi, the Atlantic ? Barlow's lobbying on behalf of Texas and Pacific Railroad Company and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; his involvement the affairs of the Tehuantepec railroad route in Mexico, mining promotions and operations, including the notorious Arizona diamond hoax; land speculation (farm lands in Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio and urban properties in St. Louis, Mo.); his patronage of the New York subway and telephone enterprises, and his part ownership of the New York World. Political and military correspondence and manuscripts cover Barlow's involvement in Democratic politics at both national and state levels, that started in 1856 and continued until his death. The papers deal with Barlow's role in the nomination of James Buchanan for President (1856) and his administration; Democratic National Convention at Charleston (1860); George McClellan's presidential bid, the National Union Club, congressional elections, Tilden, Hancock, and Cleveland campaigns (1876-1886). This portion of the collection also contains reports from the Eastern theatre of the Civil War that Barlow received from his agents in the field. Among the correspondents are William T. Sherman, and T.J. Barnett, a minor official at the Department of the Interior and the Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of commerce, who provided an insight into Lincoln's White House. Also included are items reflecting Barlow's role in social and cultural life of New York -- his friendship with William Cullen Bryant and Bret Harte, patronage of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Academy of Music, and the New York Historical Society, his collections of colonial Americana and rare books, etc.

ArchivalResource: 211 boxes, including 7 boxes of miscellanea and ephemera.Approximately 29,000 pieces.

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1630138 View

McAllister, Henry, 1837-. Colorado land and improvement companies : Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1884.

Title: Colorado land and improvement companies : Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1884.

Experiences as secretary of the American Iron and Steel Association, and as president of the National Land and Improvement Company, organized to develop lands lying along the Denver & Rio Grande route, and as executive director of the Colorado Springs Company; Colorado resident since 1872. Describes operations of the Colorado Springs Company in promoting townsites; remarks on General William Palmer, the Central Colorado Improvement Company, and the Colorado Coal and Iron Company.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 7 leaves ; 32 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (8 exposures) : negative (Rich. 115:14) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25928830 View

Bell, William Abraham, 1841-1921,. Colorado Fuel and Iron Company : [collection] : 1884- 1949 ;.

Title: Colorado Fuel and Iron Company : [collection] : 1884- 1949 ;.

ArchivalResource: linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31140334 View