Manuscripts

Owen (to Doyle)-W and miscellaneous

Description: The collection consists of documents and letters (mainly contemporary copies, some of which are in Spanish) related to Albert Kimsey Owen, the rise and fall of the Topolobampo utopian colony in Sinaloa, Mexico (from 1886 to approximately 1903), and railroad development in Mexico under the regime of Porfirio Díaz.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1885-1909.
Call number: mssAKO
Creator: Owen, Albert Kimsey(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Ray Reynolds, July 1964, April and May 1974.
Associated people: Díaz, Porfirio, (1830-1915.); Gibson, A. M. (1863-1932.); Hale, Edward Everett, (1835-1902.); Shepherd, Alexander Robey,
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A-Owen (Diaz)

Manuscripts

The collection consists of documents and letters (mainly contemporary copies, some of which are in Spanish) related to Albert Kimsey Owen, the rise and fall of the Topolobampo utopian colony in Sinaloa, Mexico (from 1886 to approximately 1903), and railroad development in Mexico under the regime of Porfirio Díaz.

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Albert Kimsey Owen letters and documents

Manuscripts

This collection consists of documents and letters (mainly contemporary copies, some of which are in Spanish) related to Albert Kimsey Owen, the rise and fall of the Topolobampo utopian colony in Sinaloa, Mexico (1886 to approximately 1903), and railroad development in Mexico under the regime of Porfirio Díaz. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Porfirio Díaz, Albert M. Gibson, Edward Everett Hale, and Alexander Robey Shepherd. The letters are carbon copies written by hand on very thin paper, probably contemporary copies made for the colony by E. M. Hussey, with a few signatures and notes that may be in the writing of Owen himself. Articles and other documents, and letters copied after 1899 are generally typewritten.

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Albert Kimsey Owen Papers

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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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Scrapbooks of news clippings including ones by Owen and about the Topolobampo Colony, ephemera, and later correspondence and notes of George Renner concerning disposition of the Owen papers

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Correspondence [almost all are letters of congratulations to Albert Kimsey Owen for having survived the wreck of the Vera Cruz in 1880]

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Two scrapbooks chiefly of newspaper clippings [one is on the sinking of the Vera Cruz in 1880]; 1 issue of El Gazetero, 1903 May 1

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Owen (to Doyle)-W and miscellaneous

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A-Owen (Diaz)

Albert Kimsey Owen letters and documents

Albert Kimsey Owen Papers

Scrapbooks of news clippings including ones by Owen and about the Topolobampo Colony, ephemera, and later correspondence and notes of George Renner concerning disposition of the Owen papers

Correspondence [almost all are letters of congratulations to Albert Kimsey Owen for having survived the wreck of the Vera Cruz in 1880]

Two scrapbooks chiefly of newspaper clippings [one is on the sinking of the Vera Cruz in 1880]; 1 issue of El Gazetero, 1903 May 1