Lucius S. Storrs papers, 1891-1952.

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Lucius S. Storrs papers, 1891-1952.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122658349

Correspondence, clippings, and reports documenting Storrs' surveys of coal lands for the Colorado Fuel Company (1889-1893) and the Northern Pacific Railway Company (1896-1906); his career as a street railway executive in New England (1906-1925), Baltimore (1929-1936), and Los Angeles (1936-1939); and as managing director of the American Electric Railway Association (1925-1929).

0.5 cu. ft. (1 box).

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