The collection includes letters and documents (including 8 scrapbooks and 2 volumes of transcripts) chiefly related to the years following the failure of Adams & Co., especially as they affected Alfred A. Cohen, who was appointed first receiver of the company. Other subjects covered in the collection include Cohen's business and legal associations (1864-84) with the Central Pacific Railroad Company and the 1876 trial, Central Pacific Railroad Co. vs. Alfred A. Cohen. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Alfred A. Cohen, Frederick Cohen, Augustus G. Richardson, H. A. Whiting, and Isaiah Churchill Woods. There is also an affidavit by James King of William and some materials related to the firm of Hoge & Wilson.

AM 29 (Volume 1)

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Central Pacific Railroad Company vs. Alfred A. Cohen. Reporter's Transcript [typescript transcript in volume 2 of 2]

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AM 29 (Volume 2)

Master hands in the affairs of the Pacific Coast : historical, biographical and descriptive : a resumé of the builders of our material progress

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