Topolobampo Collection, 1872 - 1910

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Topolobampo Collection, 1872 - 1910

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The Topolobampo Collection contains Albert Kimsey Owen's business records and promotional materials related to the colony and railroad enterprise established on Topolobampo Bay, Sinaloa, Mexico between 1872 and 1910. Materials include business correspondence, writings by Owen, legal documents, descriptions of corporate entities, promotional materials, images of the colony, maps, and plans of Pacific City. Prominent correspondents include C.B. Hoffman, John W. Lovell, J.H. Rice, and Arthur E. Stilwell. Corporations represented in the collection include the Credit Foncier Company; the Texas, Topolobampo and Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company; the Mexican Western Railroad; and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company. Materials that describe day-to-day life in the colony are not represented in the collection.The collection is arranged in four series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS BY OWEN, 3) SUBJECT MATERIALS, and 4) MAPS AND PLANS.

2.30 linear feet; (4 archive boxes and 8 oversize folders)

eng,

University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6664391

Related Entities

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Rice, J. H.

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Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915

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Mexican statesman and army officer. From the description of Porfirio Díaz correspondence, 1895. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79424089 ...

Credit Foncier Company

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Texas, Topolobampo and Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company.

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Stilwell, Arthur Edward, 1861-1928

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Mexican Western Railroad Company.

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Hoffman, C. B.

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Owen, Albert Kimsey

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Albert Kimsey Owen (1848-1916) traveled to Mexico in 1873 on a surveying trip for the future Mexican Central Railroad and saw Topolobampo Bay, Sinaloa. Owen dreamed of a railroad linking the United States through Texas to this Mexican port and planned a cooperative colony to be founded on the rich agricultural land nearby. The Mexican government granted him permission to form the Texas, Topolobampo & Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company in 1881, and the first colonists began to arrive in 18...

Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company.

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Lowell, John W.

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