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Manuscripts
This collection consists of papers related to Albert Kimsey Owen, the rise and fall of the Topolobampo utopian colony in Sinaloa, Mexico (1886-ca. 1903), railroad development, and Owen's survival of the wreck of the Vera Cruz in 1880. The collection also includes a diary, newspaper clipping scrapbooks, and notebooks of Owen. There are also some later notes and correspondence of Professor George Renner related to the disposition and custody of Owen's papers in the 1940s-1950s.
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Alt. title 2 from cover. "Compiled from notes, taken during ten years of travel and study in the Mexican Republic and on the Northern Frontier. " One map in two sheets folded into a single cover. An extensive listing of telegraph points in Spanish. Telegraph and census information tables. Prime meridian: Mexico City. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.
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