Robert Dollar papers, [ca.1872-1967].

ArchivalResource

Robert Dollar papers, [ca.1872-1967].

Family papers, including diaries, memoirs, and other writings of Robert Dollar; photographs; scrapbooks; clippings; etc., with some material relating to other members of the family. Business records of the Robert Dollar Company and its many divisions including Dollar Steamship Lines, Dollar Portland Lumber Company, Globe Wireless Ltd., Admiral Oriental Line, Egmont Timber Company, etc.

78 cartons and 72 volumes (ca. 98 linear ft.).Microfilmed portions of collection: 1 microfilm reel : negative and positive.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6783291

UC Berkeley Libraries

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Dollar Steamship Lines

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The American President Lines was formed in 1938 after the U.S. Maritime Commission purchased the Dollar Steamship Company. From the description of Logbooks of the Dollar Steamship Lines and American President Lines, 1930-1940. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 49292417 ...

Edgemont Timber Company.

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Dollar, John Harold, 1919-

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Globe Wireless Ltd.

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Robert Dollar Company.

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Admiral Oriental Line

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Dollar, John Harold, 887-1936.

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Dollar, Robert, 1844-1932

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Biography The founder of a vast lumber and shipping empire, Robert Dollar was born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1844. He emigrated to Canada with his father in 1858 and started work as a cook's boy in a lumber camp. By 1866 he was foreman of a camp and, in 1871, bought his first piece of timber land. He continually enlarged his scope of operations, moving first to Michigan, and, in 1888, to California where he opened an office in San Francisco and...

Dollar, Robert, 1912-

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Dollar, Robert Stanley, 1915-

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Dollar Portland Lumber Company.

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Dollar, Robert Stanley, 1880-1962.

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Dollar, Alexander Melville, 1878-1932.

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Online Archive of California

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