Manuscripts
History of Wells, Fargo and Co. and the Pony Express
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Outside a hobby train, Inside huge Buildings, 99 other Hobbies, Lyon Pony Express Museum, Arcadia, Calif
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Wells Fargo & Co. Express office and stagecoach, ca. 1868
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Three stages, loaded with passengers in front of the Wells Fargo express office. Locomotive and tracks are to the left.
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Joshua Clark. Wells Fargo and Company Express note
Manuscripts
The collection contains 21 letters from Sarah Clark to her husband and children. The remaining correspondence is between Clark family members. There are a few additional pieces written by friends, relatives, and one business associate. The correspondence covers a wide range of subjects including: the citrus industry in California and Nevada; economic conditions in California, Indiana, and Nevada; agriculture in Northern California; hunting; sickness; courtship; children; and business. There are also two letters containing love poetry, and the collection contains an express receipt from Wells Fargo and Company.
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America's First Citizen! Wooden Indians in the Parker Lyon Collection at the Pony Express Museum, Arcadia, Calif
Visual Materials
Image of cigar-store Indians in the Parker Lyon Collection at the Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, California, with watch faces mounted on cattle branded wooden posts that read "Sherrard Jeweler," and "The Ingersoll Watches."
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Wells Fargo & Co. Express in the United States / drawing by A. M. Vanderpool
Rare Books
A blue line print map of the United States with each Wells Fargo station shown along with the interconnecting railways. List of 216 railroads by number. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Blue line print.
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Wells, Fargo & Company records
Manuscripts
The collection consists mainly of letters to and from Hosmer B. (Buckingham) Parsons (1846-1908), who joined Wells, Fargo & Company in 1867 and successively held the positions of cashier, assistant secretary, vice-president, and president of the company bank in New York. The papers deal chiefly with the express business: relationships with competing express companies such as American Express, Pacific Express, Northern Pacific Express, Texas Express, etc.; with railroad companies including Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company, Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Company, and others; as well as matters of shipments, rates, and routes. There are also papers that relate to the personal business affairs of Hosmer B. Parsons.Includes original letters, press copies and press copy letter books, and duplicated copies of letters. Persons represented by 50 letters or more: Hancock, W. J. (325 pieces) Parsons, Hosmer B. (52 pieces + 11 letter books) Tevis, Lloyd (127 pieces) Valentine, John Joseph (1,071 pieces) Some notable items include: one to three letters each from Marcus Daly, James Ben Ali Haggin, George Hearst (plus 9 stock orders), Phoebe Apperson Hearst (plus scattered letters addressed to her in the letter books beginning in 1891), James Heron, and Collis Potter Huntington.
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