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Description: The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1844 May 6-1864 August 16
Call number: mssBC
Creator: Bacon, Henry Douglas (1817-1893)

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Purchased from Edwin Grabhorn, January 1945.

Purchased from Charles Yale's Bookshop, March 1944.

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Associated people

Bacon, Julia Ann Page. (1826-1889.)

Barlow, Samuel L. M. (1824-1893.)

Coleman, William Tell, (1819-)

Gaty, Samuel.

Page, Daniel D.

Page, Francis W.

Starr, Henry,

Yerkes, Thomas M.

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Mining Papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.
mssBC
Image not available
Mining Papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.
mssBC
Image not available
Mining Papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.
mssBC
Image not available
Mining Papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.
mssBC
Image not available
Mining Papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.
mssBC
Image not available
Mining Papers
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.
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