A topical history of the United States : footprints of four centuries ; the story of the American people. Comprising the important events, episodes, and incidents which make up the marvelous record from Columbus to the present time

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  These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.

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