Manuscripts
Reports, documents, some photos, and printed materials
- Description
- 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.
- Production date
- 1872-1916, 1940-1969
- Call number
- mssOwen
- Provenance
- Acquired from George Renner, January 1983.
- Restrictions
- NOT AVAILABLE. Not available for paging until processed. Please contact Reader Services for more information.
