Manuscripts

Diaries and notebooks of Albert Kimsey Owen

Description: Contents consist of:
Diary [travel notes, Denver to Mexico City and west to the Lerma Valley] 1872, Mar. 7-May 12 Memoranda 1885, May 13-Oct. 19 Notes 1900, Jan. 31-Mar. 23 Notes 1902, July 22-Nov.30 [Notes] 1903, Feb. 26-May 17 Notes 1903, Oct. 4-1904, Jan. 6 Notes 1906, Mar. 25-Dec. 31 [Notes and clippings] 1910-1911
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1872-1916, 1940-1969
Call number: mssOwen
Creator: Owen, Albert Kimsey(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from George Renner, January 1983.

Albert Kimsey Owen Papers

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.

mssOwen

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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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mssOwen

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The Federal reporter

Rare Books

Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

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Circulation Times

Manuscripts

6 items: six issues of Circulation Times for 1992 - Jan. - Feb., March - April, May - June, July - August, Sept. - Oct. and Nov. - Dec.

mssLAT

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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

Manuscripts

mssOwen

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Harvey Henderson Civil War diaries

Manuscripts

Six diaries that Harvey Henderson kept during his Civil War service covering the following periods: 1) 1861, Oct. 5 - 1862, Apr. 30; 2) 1862, May 1 - 1862, Dec. 31; 3) 1863, Jan. 1 - Nov. 30: 4) 1863, Dec. 1 - 1864, May 18; 5) 1864, May 19 - June 30; and 6) 1864, July 1 - 1865, Apr. 2.

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Diaries and notebooks of Albert Kimsey Owen

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Albert Kimsey Owen Papers

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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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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