Brazil Railway Company records, 1914-1920

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Brazil Railway Company records, 1914-1920

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The Brazil Railway Company records include administrative material, financial records, and letters and papers pertaining to the reorganization of the company spearheaded by W. Cameron Forbes, 1914-1920.

9 linear ft. (19 vols. and 8 boxes)

Baker Library, Harvard Business School

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SNAC Resource ID: 6382636

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Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron), 1870-1859

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The Brazil Railway Company was founded in 1906 by New York businessman and Latin American industrialist Percival Farquhar. He had a dream of industrializing the Southern Amazon region by building railways to carry and distribute goods and materials. In 1913, the Brazil Railway Company filed for bankruptcy due to the Balkan Wars and a freeze in credit. A court in Maine appointed W. Cameron Forbes as receiver of the company and he created a reorganization and credit pay back plan for the company. ...

Ferrovia Madeira-MamoreĢ.

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Gauld, Charles Anderson, 1911-

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American historian and author. From the description of Charles Anderson Gauld papers, 1932-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868215 Gauld, who earned his A.B. in history at Stanford in 1932, was a lecturer at Stanford and assistant editor of HISPANIC AMERICAN REPORT. From the description of Charles Anderson Gauld miscellaneous papers, 1953-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 704537830 Biographical/Historical Sketch ...

Farquhar, Percival, 1864-1953

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American engineer. From the description of Percival Farquhar papers, 1922-1928. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868908 Percival Farquhar was born in York, Pennsylvania on October 19, 1864. He graduated from Sheffield Scientific School in 1884 and joined his father's New York based export company, which shipped machinery to Latin America. In 1885, Farquhar studied law briefly at Columbia Law School. After serving as an assemblyman in the New York state legislature from 1890...

Perkins, Charles E.

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