John Melmoth Dow papers, 1798-1918.
Collection Number: 2765
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
John Melmoth Dow papers, 1798-1918.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2765
Abstract:
Personal and professional papers of John M. Dow. Also included are letters and newspaper
clippings concerning political events in Central America in the second half of the
nineteenth century. Dow also pursued his interests as a naturalist, exploring the
Central American coast to collect marine flora and fauna.
Creator:
Dow, John Melmoth, 1827-1892.
Quanitities:
6.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
John Melmoth Dow was a shipmaster, shipping agent and naturalist. Born in New York
City in 1827, he joined the Panama Railroad Company. He made his first voyage to the
Central American coast in 1851, and remained involved with Central and South American
coastal trade as a ship captain until 1876. He was appointed commander of the steamer
Constitution in 1853, and opened the Central American service of the Panama Railroad
Company as commander of the steamer Colombus. He later became a shipping agent for
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. During his years as a shipping agent, Dow was
captured and held hostage by revolutionist Pedro Prest án in 1885. He was arbitrator
in the dispute between the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique and the American
Contracting and Dredging Company in their attempt to build the French Canal in Panama.
Dow died in New York City in 1892.
Personal and professional papers of John M. Dow include shipping and trading contracts
with Central American governments; administrative records, cargo and freight (primarily
coffee and indigo) statements; and financial and commercial records, annual reports,
logs, schedules, and telegraph code. Also included are letters and newspaper clippings
concerning political events in Central America in the second half of the nineteenth
century; correspondence with Central American politicians such as General Barrios,
Rafael Zaldívar and Enrico Palacio regarding United States policy toward attempts
to unify the Central American countries into a single federation. Also included is
Dow's correspondence as arbitrator in the settlement between the Compagnie Universelle
du Canal Interocéanique and the American Contracting and Dredging Company, 1887. Dow
also pursued his interests as a naturalist, exploring the Central American coast to
collect marine flora and fauna and carrying on an extensive correspondence with Professor
Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian Institution and Osbert Salvin and P. L. Sclater of
the Zoological Society of London concerning the collection and transportation of specimens
native to Central America. Papers also contain several letters to his wife, Elizabeth
Allen Dow, which provide daily accounts of his life on board ship and in port.
Among other correspondents are William Henry Aspinwall, John Cassin, Alexander Center,
William Pancoast Clyde, Charles Dorat, John Charles Frémont, Joseph I. Henry, David
Hoadley, J. B. Houston, J. Jacquier, Joseph F. Joy, W. H. Lane, George Newbold, James
Orton, Henry Shelton Sanford, George Ure Skinner, Henry Bartholomew Slaven and Jeffries
Wyman. Eight diaries kept by Dow provide comments on his daily life, and two notebooks
give descriptions of the coast of Central America. Photographs include Dow and several
Central American scenes. An album contains portraits of Dow's family, relatives and
acquaintances, and well-known persons. There are two albums of caricatures and a book
of "Ocean Mosses" (pressed specimens) given to Elizabeth Allen "from her friend Capt'n
John M. Dow." Remaining items include a significant group of nineteenth century maps,
membership certificates, inventories of property, bills, bank books, insurance policies,
memoranda, passenger lists, menus, invitations, and printed matter pertaining primarily
to natural history.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
John Melmoth Dow papers, #2765. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Allen, Elizabeth.
Aspinwall, William Henry.
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887.
Barrios, Gerardo, General.
Cassin, John.
Center, Alexander.
Clyde, William Pancoast.
Goldblatt, Charles.
Dow, Elizabeth Allen.
Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890.
Henry, Joseph I., 1797-1878.
Hoadley, David.
Houston, J. B.
Jacquier, J.
Joy, Joseph F.
Lane, W. H.
Newbold, George.
Orton, James.
Palacio, Enrico.
Prestán, Pedro.
Salvin, Osbert, 1835-1898.
Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913.
Sanford, H. S., 1823-1891.
Skinner, George Ure.
Slaven, Henry Bartholomew.
Wyman, Jeffries, Jr., 1864-1941.
Zaldívar, Rafael, 1834-1903.
Dow family.
American Contract and Dredging Company
Colombus (ship)
Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique de Panama
Constitution (ship)
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Panama Railroad Co
Smithsonian Institution
Zoological Society of London
Places:
United States -- Commerce -- South America.
United States -- Commerce -- Central America.
South America -- Politics and government.
South America -- Foreign relations.
South America -- Description and travel.
South America -- Commerce -- United States.
Panama Canal (Panama)
Central America -- Politics and government.
Central America -- Foreign relations.
Central America -- Description and travel.
Central America -- Commerce -- United States.
Subjects:
Shipmasters.
Naturalists.
Ships -- Cargo.
Natural history.
Mosses.
Marine animals.
Marine plants.
Indigo.
Freight and freightage.
Coffee industry.
Coastwise shipping.
Coastal plants.
Caricatures and cartoons.
Cargo handling.
Canals -- Design and construction.
Canals, Interoceanic.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Notebooks.
Menus.
Maps.
Logs (records).
Diaries.
Contracts.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Correspondence and Related Papers
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1855-1893 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Business and Natural History
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1855-1858 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, resolutions, and orders
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San Salvador mines
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New York state
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Dorat, Charles
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Aspinwall, William Henry
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Dwight, Theodore
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Baird, Spencer Fullerton
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Smithsonian Institution
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Panama Railroad Company
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Business and Natural History
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1859-1860 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, clippings, and a resolution
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Aspinwall, William H.
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Hoadley, David
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Sanford, Henry Shelton
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LeConte, John Lawrence
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Smithsonian Institution
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Panama Railroad Company
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Business and Natural History Correspondence
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1861-01-1861-06 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
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San Jose, Guatemala
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Hoadley, David
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Joy, Joseph F.
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Barrios, Gerardo
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Bustamante, Borja
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Panama Railroad Company
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Business Correspondence
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1861-07-1861-09 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
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United States
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Hoadley, David
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Barrios, Gerardo
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Lara Napoleon
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Panama Railroad Company
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Business Correspondence
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1861-10-1862-12 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
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El Salvador
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Guatemala
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Hoadley, David
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Dow, John Melmoth
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Palacio, Enrico
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Panama Railroad Company
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Business and Natural History
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1863 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, lists, and translations
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Dorat, Charles
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Salvin, Osbert
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Dow, John Melmoth
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Smithsonian Institution
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Sociedad Economica de Amigos de Guatemala
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Natural History
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1864 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a list
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Dow, John Melmoth
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Smithsonian Institution
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Sociedad Economica
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Natural History
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1865 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and an illustration
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Wyman, Jeffries
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Stimpson, William
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Smithsonian Institution
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Natural History Correspondence
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1866 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Skinner, George Ure
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Sclater, Philip L.
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Smithsonian Institution
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British Museum
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Zoological Society of London
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Business and Natural History Correspondence
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1867-01-1867-08 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Salvin, Osbert
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Smithsonian Institution
|
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Zoological Society of London
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Business and Natural History
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1867-09-1868-12 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a list
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Mexico.
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Henry, Joseph
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Sclater, Philip L.
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Torres, Father Cresencio
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Smithsonian Institution
|
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Zoological Society of London
|
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Natural History
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1869-01-1870-06 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a memorandum
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Salvin, Osbert
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Sclater, Philip L.
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Lawrence, George Newbold
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Smithsonian Institution
|
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Zoological Society of London
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Natural History Correspondence
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1870-07-1871-07 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Salvin, Osbert
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Endres, A. R.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Natural History Correspondence
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1871-08-1872-12 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
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Endres, A. R.
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Newcomb, Wesley
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Sclater, Philip L.
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Salvin, Osbert
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Marsh, Othniel Charles
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Zoological Society of London
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Yale College
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Business and Natural History Correspondence
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1873-1875 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
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Salvin, Osbert
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Business and Natural History
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1876-1878 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, legal documents, and a telegram
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Salvin, Osbert
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Clyde, William Pancoast
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Smithsonian Institution
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Natural History
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1879-1881 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a resolution
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Guatemala
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Salvin, Osbert
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Smithsonian Institution
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Business and Natural History Correspondence
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1882-1883-06 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a memorandum
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Lane, W. H.
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Dow, Allan Wade
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Smithsonian Institution
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Business and Natural History
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1883-08-1884-08 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a time statement
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Lane, W. H.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Business and Natural History
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1884-09-1884-12 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, memorandums, and clippings
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Baird, Spencer F.
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Lane, W. H.
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Pim, Bedford
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Smithsonian Institution
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Business
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1885-01-1885-03 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, lists, declarations, a book cover, a telegram, and translations
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Colombia
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Salvador
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Guatemala
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Panama.
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Republic of Central America
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Lane, W. H.
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Zaldivar, Rafael
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Pim, Bedford
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Baza, Francisco Mendiola
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Barrios, Gerardo
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Office of the Secretary General
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Business
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1885-04-1885-09 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and translated telegrams
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Salvador
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Lane, W. H.
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Dow, Elizabeth
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Zaldivar, Rafael
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Business
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1885-10-1885-12 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, petitions, resolutions, and a statement
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Saville, James H.
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Lane, W. H.
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Saville and Starring
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Business Correspondence
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1886 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a telegram
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Lane, W. H.
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Dow, Allan Wade
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Slaven, H. B.
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American Contracting and Dredging Company
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique
|
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Business and Natural History
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1887-01-1887-04 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a translation
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Panama Canal
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Slaven, H. B.
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Tacquier, T.
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Robinson, Tracy
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Baird, Spencer F.
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American Contracting and Dredging Company
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Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique
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Smithsonian Institution
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Business
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1887-05-02-1887-05-18 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and questions
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Panama Canal
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Robinson, Tracy
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American Contracting and Dredging Company
|
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Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Business
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1887-05-21-1887-05-28 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, translations, questions, and opinions
|
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Panama Canal
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Slaven, H. B.
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Robinson, Tracy
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American Contracting and Dredging Company
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Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique
|
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Business - arbitration
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1887-06-1887-08 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, translations, questions, statements, and canal profiles
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Panama Canal
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Slaven, H. B.
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Robinson, Tracy
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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American Contracting and Dredging Company
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Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Business
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1887-09-1888-01 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and job applications
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Lane, W. H.
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Business, Natural History and Personal Correspondence
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1888-02-1888-07 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
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Panama Canal
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Lane, W. H.
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McCord, Mary
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Esperanza College
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American Contracting and Dredging Company
|
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Compagnie Universelle de Canal Interoceanique
|
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Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Business and Natural History
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1888-08-1889 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a list
|
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Business and Natural History
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1890-06-1891-02 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, financial statements, and telegrams
|
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San Francisco
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Lane, W. H.
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Houston, J. B.
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Magee, Thomas
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Business and Natural History
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1891-03-1891-07 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, financial statements, telegrams, invitations, and a memorandum
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Central America
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Houston, J. B.
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Lane, W. H.
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
Business and Natural History
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1891-08-1892-06 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, a schedule, a drawing, and a photograph copy
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Lane, W. H.
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Center Alexander
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Business and Personal
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1892-07-1892-12 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, receipts, and statements
|
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Dow, John M.
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Personal
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Undated |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, fragments, and a resolution
|
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San Salvador
|
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Allen, James
|
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Personal Family
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1856-06-1858-11 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a poem
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New York state
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Allen, Elizabeth K.
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Personal Family
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1859-1860-06 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and a clipping
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Dow family
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Personal Family Correspondence
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1860-11-1870-04 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
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Dow family
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Personal Family Correspondence
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1872-01-1872-03 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
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Dow family
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Personal Family Correspondence
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1872-04-1872-10 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
|
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Dow family
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Personal Family Correspondence
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1872-11-1876-07 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
|
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Dow family
|
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Business and Personal Family Correspondence
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1881-08-1885-04 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters
|
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Panama.
|
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Dow family
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Business and Personal
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1885-06-1890-09 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, notes, and a compromise
|
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Panama Canal
|
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Dow family
|
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American Contracting and Dredging Company
|
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Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Business and Personal Correspondence
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1891-1892 |
Scope and Contents
Contains letters and telegrams
|
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Dow family
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Pacific Mail Steamship Company Business Records
|
1857-1888 |
Scope and Contents
Contains certificates, statements, minutes, lists, records, tide table, and a newspaper
|
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Panama.
|
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Box 3 | Folder 13 |
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
1880-1885 |
Scope and Contents
Contains statements, records, tables, schedules, and a circular
|
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Monkey Hill
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Pacific Mail Steamship Company Business
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1886-1889 |
Scope and Contents
Contains statements, reports, contracts, telegrams, analysis, and a testimony
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Pacific Mail Steamship Company Business Records
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1889-1892 |
Scope and Contents
Contains reports, statements, schedules, tide tables, clippings, receipts, lists,
payrolls, inventory, and a telegram
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Letterbook
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1857-1892 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Letterbook
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1857-01-15-1859-01-12 |
Hoadley, David
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Joy, Joseph
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Baird, Spencer F.
|
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Mr. Skinner
|
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Sclater, P. L.
|
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Mozley, Brandon
|
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Lane, W. H.
|
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Mr. Bullay
|
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Hellen, Joseph
|
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Houston, J. B.
|
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Blanco y Eriqueros
|
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Sarg, Francisco
|
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Panama Railroad Company
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Smithsonian Institution
|
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Letterbook
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1858-07-06-1865-04-24 |
Hoadley, David
|
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Joy, Joseph
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Baird, Spencer F.
|
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Mr. Skinner
|
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Sclater, P. L.
|
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Mozley, Brandon
|
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Lane, W. H.
|
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Mr. Bullay
|
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Hellen, Joseph
|
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Houston, J. B.
|
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Blanco y Eriqueros
|
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Sarg, Francisco
|
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Panama Railroad Company
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Smithsonian Institution
|
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Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Letterbook
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1859-08-13-1864-09-24 |
Hoadley, David
|
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Joy, Joseph
|
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Baird, Spencer F.
|
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Mr. Skinner
|
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Sclater, P. L.
|
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Mozley, Brandon
|
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Lane, W. H.
|
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Mr. Bullay
|
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Hellen, Joseph
|
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Houston, J. B.
|
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Blanco y Eriqueros
|
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Sarg, Francisco
|
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Panama Railroad Company
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Smithsonian Institution
|
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Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Letterbook
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1864-10-15-1873-02-19 |
Hoadley, David
|
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Joy, Joseph
|
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Baird, Spencer F.
|
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Mr. Skinner
|
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Sclater, P. L.
|
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Mozley, Brandon
|
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Lane, W. H.
|
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Mr. Bullay
|
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Hellen, Joseph
|
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Houston, J. B.
|
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Blanco y Eriqueros
|
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Sarg, Francisco
|
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Panama Railroad Company
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Smithsonian Institution
|
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Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Letterbook
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1865-05-23-1873-07-15 |
Hoadley, David
|
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Joy, Joseph
|
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Baird, Spencer F.
|
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Mr. Skinner
|
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Sclater, P. L.
|
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Mozley, Brandon
|
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Lane, W. H.
|
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Mr. Bullay
|
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Hellen, Joseph
|
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Houston, J. B.
|
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Blanco y Eriqueros
|
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Sarg, Francisco
|
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Panama Railroad Company
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Smithsonian Institution
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Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Letterbook
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1873-07-28-1879-03-15 |
Hoadley, David
|
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Joy, Joseph
|
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Baird, Spencer F.
|
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Mr. Skinner
|
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Sclater, P. L.
|
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Mozley, Brandon
|
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Lane, W. H.
|
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Mr. Bullay
|
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Hellen, Joseph
|
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Houston, J. B.
|
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Blanco y Eriqueros
|
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Sarg, Francisco
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Panama Railroad Company
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Smithsonian Institution
|
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Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Letterbook
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1879-03-20-1881-03-26 |
Hoadley, David
|
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Joy, Joseph
|
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Baird, Spencer F.
|
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Mr. Skinner
|
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Sclater, P. L.
|
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Mozley, Brandon
|
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Lane, W. H.
|
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Mr. Bullay
|
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Hellen, Joseph
|
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Houston, J. B.
|
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Blanco y Eriqueros
|
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Sarg, Francisco
|
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Panama Railroad Company
|
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Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Smithsonian Institution
|
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Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Letterbook
|
1881-03-26-1883-07-28 |
Hoadley, David
|
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Joy, Joseph
|
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Baird, Spencer F.
|
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Mr. Skinner
|
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Sclater, P. L.
|
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Mozley, Brandon
|
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Lane, W. H.
|
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Mr. Bullay
|
|||
Hellen, Joseph
|
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Houston, J. B.
|
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Blanco y Eriqueros
|
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Sarg, Francisco
|
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Panama Railroad Company
|
|||
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
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Smithsonian Institution
|
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Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Letterbook
|
1883-07-02-1885-01-28 |
Hoadley, David
|
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Joy, Joseph
|
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Baird, Spencer F.
|
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Mr. Skinner
|
|||
Sclater, P. L.
|
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Mozley, Brandon
|
|||
Lane, W. H.
|
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Mr. Bullay
|
|||
Hellen, Joseph
|
|||
Houston, J. B.
|
|||
Blanco y Eriqueros
|
|||
Sarg, Francisco
|
|||
Panama Railroad Company
|
|||
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
|||
Smithsonian Institution
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Letterbook
|
1885-01-22-1888-04-05 |
Hoadley, David
|
|||
Joy, Joseph
|
|||
Baird, Spencer F.
|
|||
Mr. Skinner
|
|||
Sclater, P. L.
|
|||
Mozley, Brandon
|
|||
Lane, W. H.
|
|||
Mr. Bullay
|
|||
Hellen, Joseph
|
|||
Houston, J. B.
|
|||
Blanco y Eriqueros
|
|||
Sarg, Francisco
|
|||
Panama Railroad Company
|
|||
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
|||
Smithsonian Institution
|
|||
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Letterbook
|
1888-04-12-1892-07-23 |
Hoadley, David
|
|||
Joy, Joseph
|
|||
Baird, Spencer F.
|
|||
Mr. Skinner
|
|||
Sclater, P. L.
|
|||
Mozley, Brandon
|
|||
Lane, W. H.
|
|||
Mr. Bullay
|
|||
Hellen, Joseph
|
|||
Houston, J. B.
|
|||
Blanco y Eriqueros
|
|||
Sarg, Francisco
|
|||
Panama Railroad Company
|
|||
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
|||
Smithsonian Institution
|
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Logs, Diaries, and Nautical Guide
|
1851-1892 | ||
Box 5 |
Logs from S.S. "Columbus" and S.S. "Golden Age"
|
1851-09-29-1854-10-16 | |
Scope and Contents
About trips from San Francisco to Acapulco, San Francisco to Panama, and Panama to
San Francisco
|
|||
San Francisco
|
|||
Acapulco
|
|||
Panama.
|
|||
Box 5 |
Logs from S.S. "Fremont" and S.S. "Columbus"
|
1852-02-02-1854-02-18 | |
Scope and Contents
About trips from San Francisco to Panama
|
|||
San Francisco
|
|||
Panama.
|
|||
Box 5 |
Log from an unnamed ship
|
1859-06-08-1869-01-31 | |
Scope and Contents
About trips between two unnamed locations
|
|||
Box 5 |
Log from S.S. "Costa Rica"
|
1870-04-11-1873-03-22 | |
Scope and Contents
About trips between two unnamed locations
|
|||
Box 5 |
Logs from S.S. "Honduras" and an unnamed ship
|
1873-03-03-1875-04-26 | |
Scope and Contents
About trips between two unnamed locations
|
|||
Box 5 |
Logs from S.S. "Acapulco," S.S. "Colon," S.S. "City of Panama," and S.S. "City of
Sydney"
|
1874-05-23-1876-06-12 | |
Scope and Contents
About trips from New York to Aspinwall and back and New York to San Francisco and
back
|
|||
New York
|
|||
Aspinwall
|
|||
Kingston
|
|||
San Francisco
|
|||
Box 5 |
Log from S.S. "City of Sydney"
|
1876-06-21-1876-10-18 | |
Scope and Contents
About trips from San Francisco to Sydney and New Zealand and back
|
|||
San Francisco
|
|||
Sydney
|
|||
New Zealand
|
|||
Box 5 |
Private Journal from the S.S. "Columbus"
|
1856-11-17-1859-01-10 | |
Box 5 |
Diary
|
1877-03-28-1878-03-01 | |
Box 5 |
Diary
|
1880-02-12-1881-01-08 | |
Box 5 |
Diary
|
1884-01-09-1884-08-14 | |
Box 5 |
Diary
|
1887-01-24-1888-01-06 | |
Box 5 |
Diary
|
1888-01-01-1888-05-28 | |
Box 5 |
Diary
|
1890-01-01-1890-10-14 | |
Box 5 |
Notebook and Diary
|
1888-12-10-1891-06-19 | |
Box 5 |
Diary
|
1892-01-01-1892-07-22 | |
Box 5 |
Reconnaissance hydrographique des cotes du Centre-Amerique, executee par la corvette
La Brillante, sous le commandement de M. T. de Lapelin…
|
1854 | |
Scope and Contents
A two volume, handwritten, English translation
|
|||
Paris
|
|||
Personal Papers
|
1851-1918 | ||
Box 6 | 1 |
Dow-Allen Biographical and Genealogical Material
|
1892, 1914 |
Scope and Contents
Contains news clippings, genealogical sketch, and a letter
|
|||
Dow Family
|
|||
Allen Family
|
|||
Box 6 | 2 |
Dow Family Correspondence
|
1851-1918 |
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and poems
|
|||
Dow, Allan Wade
|
|||
Dow, Bertha
|
|||
Allen Family
|
|||
Dow Family
|
|||
Box 6 | 3 |
Personal Legal Papers
|
1857-1877 |
Scope and Contents
Contains legal documents and insurance policies
|
|||
New York City
|
|||
Box 6 | 4 |
Personal Legal Papers
|
1885-1889 |
Scope and Contents
Contains insurance policies, passports, and a contract
|
|||
New York City
|
|||
Box 6 | 5 |
Personal Financial Papers
|
1860-1869 |
Scope and Contents
Contains account books, receipts, and invoices
|
|||
New York City
|
|||
Box 6 | 6 |
Personal Financial Papers
|
1870-1875 |
Scope and Contents
Contains account books, receipts, and invoices
|
|||
New York City
|
|||
Box 6 | 7 |
Personal Financial Papers
|
1876-1892 |
Scope and Contents
Contains checks, receipts, invoices, and certificates
|
|||
New York City
|
|||
Box 6 | 8 |
Membership Papers
|
1858-1888 |
Scope and Contents
Contains certificates and circulars
|
|||
Photographs
|
1860-1891 | ||
Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Daguerreotype of James Allen "John" Morrison
|
1845 |
15.3 x 12.2 cm
|
|||
Daguerreotypes
|
|||
half plate
|
|||
Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Carte-de-visite album of caricatures
|
1860 |
15.4 x 12 cm
|
|||
Scope and Contents
Contains handwritten inscriptions below some cartes-de-visite.
|
|||
Caricatures
|
|||
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Carte-de-visite album of caricatures
|
1860 |
15.5 x 14 cm
|
|||
Scope and Contents
Contains handwritten inscriptions below some cartes-de-visite.
|
|||
Caricatures
|
|||
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 1 |
John Melmoth Dow
|
1888-1891 |
Creator: Taber
|
|||
Creator: W. Kurtz
|
|||
16.5 x 11 cm
|
|||
4 cards
|
|||
Portraits
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Cabinet cards
|
|||
Dow, J. M. (John M.)
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Central America
|
|
Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Home of Dr. M.S. Hine in San Jose, Costa Rica
|
1866 |
2 photographs
|
|||
11.2 x 14.5 cm
|
|||
Mounted on card
|
|||
Costa Rica
|
|||
Houses
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Guatemala
|
1874 |
Creator: Berbruner, Emilio Sr.
|
|||
16.7 x 11 cm
|
|||
7 cabinet cards
|
|||
Laborers, gardens, coffee
|
|||
Cabinet cards
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 3 |
Central America
|
1874 |
Creator: Imery, N.Y.B.
|
|||
16.7 x 11 cm
|
|||
7 cabinet cards
|
|||
Cabinet cards
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 4 |
Nicaragua
|
1870 |
3 photographs
|
|||
15 x 12.8 cm
|
|||
Mounted on card
|
|||
Nicaragua
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 5 |
Panoramic view of Sydney and Port Jackson
|
1876 |
Creator: Turner and Henderson
|
|||
107 x 23 cm
|
|||
Folded panorama mounted inside cover.
|
|||
Sydney, Australia
|
|||
Port Jackson, Australia
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Panoramas
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 6 |
Ruinas de San Salvador
|
1865 |
Creator: Moncreiff Foto
|
|||
15 photographs
|
|||
26 x 20 cm and smaller
|
|||
Mounted on card. Typewritten captions mounted on card below photograph.
|
|||
San Salvador, El Salvador
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 7 |
Panama
|
1886 |
10 photographs
|
|||
25.3 x 20.1 cm
|
|||
Mounted on card. Handwritten inscriptions on verso.
|
|||
Panama.
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 8-11 |
Guatemala
|
1858-1859 |
Creator: Fitzgibbon, John H., 1816?-1882
|
|||
Creator: Fitzgibbon, Wm. (William)
|
|||
20 photographs
|
|||
20.2 x 23.7 cm
|
|||
Mounted on card. Include handwritten inscriptions.
|
|||
Guatemala
|
|||
Salted paper prints
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 12 |
Front Street, Colon/Aspinwall
|
1870 |
2 photographs
|
|||
18.7 x 23.7 cm
|
|||
Colon, Panama
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 13 |
Central America
|
1870 |
7 photographs
|
|||
13 x 27.2 cm and smaller
|
|||
Mounted on card. Include handwritten inscriptions.
|
|||
Scope and Contents
Includes one photographic print of a drawing of the P.M. SS City of Sydney.
|
|||
Guatemala
|
|||
Acapolco, Mexico
|
|||
El Salvador
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 14 |
Panama
|
1870 |
3 photographs
|
|||
28 x 35 cm and smaller
|
|||
Mounted on card. Include handwritten inscriptions.
|
|||
Panama.
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 15 |
Panama
|
1870 |
Creator: Herbruger, E. Jr.
|
|||
2 photographs
|
|||
29.3 x 34.3 cm
|
|||
Mounted on card. Include handwritten inscriptions and studio stamp.
|
|||
Panama.
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 16 |
Guatemala
|
1874 |
5 photographs
|
|||
25.8 x 38.8 cm
|
|||
Mounted on card. Include handwritten inscriptions.
|
|||
Guatemala
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 17 |
John Melmoth Dow portraits
|
|
2 photographs
|
|||
Portraits
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Dow, J. M. (John M.)
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 17 |
Portrait of John Melmoth Dow
|
1872 |
Creator: Kurtz, W.
|
|||
25.5 x 20.2 cm
|
|||
Mounted on board, printed with studio information.
|
|||
Box 8 | Folder 17 |
Portrait of John Melmoth Dow
|
1880 |
40.6 x 31.2 cm
|
|||
Mounted on oval board.
|
|||
Box 14 |
Carte-de-visite album
|
1860-1870 | |
30.5 x 23.8 cm
|
|||
Leather bound album with cameos on clasps.
|
|||
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of members of the Dow family. Contains handwritten inscriptions
below some cartes-de-visite.
|
|||
Photograph albums
|
|||
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
|
|||
Albumen prints.
|
|||
Miscellany and Memorabilia
|
1851-1896 | ||
Box 9 |
"Telegraphic Code: Pacific Mail Steamship Company"
|
1885-01-15 | |
Dow, John M.
|
|||
Box 9 |
"Freight and Shipping Rates"
|
1878 | |
Box 9 |
Scrapbook
|
1855-1896 | |
Box 9 |
"Notebook"
|
1857-1859 | |
Box 9 |
Memo book, re Orchids
|
Undated | |
Box 9 |
"Notebook, Expenses - 1888, Trip to Europe"
|
1888 | |
Europe
|
|||
Box 9 |
"Poems, 1851-1856"
|
1851-1856 | |
Box 9 |
Journal
|
1876-12-02-1878 | |
Box 9 |
"Memoranda, 1860-1861"
|
1860-1861 | |
Box 9 |
"1861 Measurements and Distances"
|
1861 | |
Box 9 |
"Notebook 1860-1865"
|
1860-1865 | |
Box 9 |
"El Constitutional"
|
1865 | |
Scope and Contents
Contains a broadside attached to a hand-painted flags
|
|||
Dow, John M.
|
|||
Canas, Juan J.
|
|||
Box 10 |
Sketchbook
|
Undated | |
Box 10 |
"Ocean Mosses"
|
1855-12-10 | |
Scope and Contents
Contains bound, pressed mosses
|
|||
Allen, Lizzie K.
|
|||
Dow, John M.
|
|||
Box 10 |
Pressed flower
|
Undated | |
Scope and Contents
Contains a single dried, pressed Cattleya Dowiana
|
|||
Box 10 |
Mounted picture
|
1865 | |
Scope and Contents
Contains a picture and description of Cattleya Dowiana
|
|||
Box 10 |
Passenger lists from S.S. Rhaetia
|
1888 | |
Dow, John M.
|
|||
Box 10 |
Memo book
|
Undated | |
Scope and Contents
Contains notes on various subjects with some daily entries
|
|||
Box 10 |
Menus, a program, trade cards, tickets, and an invitation
|
Undated | |
Publications
|
1854-1891 | ||
Box 11 |
Bulletin of the Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society in the City of New
York
|
1861-1862 | |
Box 11 |
Arrangement of Families of Birds
|
1866 | |
Scope and Contents
Contains eight pages
|
|||
Box 11 |
Sculptured Anthropoid Ape Hands, Found in or Near the Valley of the John Day River,
A Tributary of the Columbia River, Oregon, by James Terry
|
1891 | |
Creator: Terry, James
|
|||
Box 11 |
A Week at Port-Royal
|
1855 | |
Creator: Hill, Richard
|
|||
Montego-Bay
|
|||
Box 11 |
The Publications of the American Tract Society
|
Undated | |
Scope and Contents
Contains incomplete Volume 1 of Series II
|
|||
New York
|
|||
Box 11 |
A Builder's Trip Across the Continent
|
1886 | |
Creator: Tucker, John J.
|
|||
New York
|
|||
Box 11 |
Union League Club of New York, Annual Reports of Executive Committee and Treasurer,
By-Laws and House Rules
|
1870-1871 | |
Box 11 |
Speculations, Solar Heat, Gravitation, and Sun Spots
|
1891 | |
Creator: Kedzie, J. H.
|
|||
Chicago
|
|||
Box 11 |
The American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Annual Report of the Trustees,
Act of Incorporation, Constitution, By-Laws and List of Members. For the Year
|
1890-1891 | |
Box 11 |
Science
|
1885-10 | |
Scope and Contents
Vol. VI No. 142
|
|||
Box 11 |
Fishes of Central America, XIV. An Account of the Fishes of States of Central America,
based on Collections made by Capt. J. M. Dow, F. Godman, Esq. and O. Salvin, Esq.
By Albert Gunther Read March 22, 1864 and Dec. 13, 1866. Pages 377-494 with Plates
LXIII to LXXXVII
|
1864 | |
Dow, James M.
|
|||
Godman, F.
|
|||
Salvin, O.
|
|||
Gunther, Albert
|
|||
Box 11 |
Extract from "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" Cattleya Dowiana
|
1865-1866 | |
Box 11 |
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
|
1888 | |
London
|
|||
Box 11 |
"The Humming Bird" - A Monthly Scientific, Artistic, and Industrial Review
|
1891 | |
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1, No. 1
|
|||
Boucard, Adolphe
|
|||
Box 11 |
Catalogue - Leonard Brothers & Co.
|
Undated | |
Scope and Contents
Sale Listing of Furniture, etc.
|
|||
Box 12 |
Extracts from Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
|
1859, 1863, 1864, 1886 | |
Box 12 |
Extracts from The American Journal of Science and Arts
|
1866-1873 | |
Box 12 |
Extracts from Boston Society of Natural History
|
1857, 1866 | |
Box 12 |
Extracts from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|
1861, 1887, 1905 | |
Box 12 |
Extract from Proceedings of United States National Museum
|
1886 | |
Box 12 |
Directory of Scientific Societies of Washington
|
1890-1892 | |
Box 12 |
Extract from American Naturalist
|
1891 | |
Creator: Baur, G.
|
|||
Box 12 |
Extract from Art
|
1854-09-20 | |
Wyman, Jeffries
|
|||
Box 12 |
The Conchologists' Exchange
|
1886 | |
Scope and Contents
Vol. 1, No. 4
|
|||
Philadelphia
|
|||
Box 12 |
Revue Sur Le Systeme D'Inoculations Curatives Du Docteur Telephe Desmatis
|
1862 | |
Bordeaux
|
|||
Box 12 |
Note Sur Les Sepultures Indiennes Du Department de Chiriqu (Etat de Panama)
|
1865 | |
Panama.
|
|||
Box 12 |
Une Epidemie de Variole A Bordeaux
|
1870 | |
Box 12 |
Otia Botanica Hamburgensia
|
1878 | |
Box 12 |
Proyecto de Arregio De La Deuda Interna & Esterna De La Republica
|
1886 | |
Guatemala
|
|||
Box 12 |
Article from The Ibis
|
1865 | |
Creator: Sclater, Philip Lutley
|
|||
Scope and Contents
Describes a new species of Tanager of the Genus Iridornis
|
|||
Box 12 |
Synopsis Avium Tanagrinarum - A Descriptive Catalogue of the Known Species of Tanagers
|
1856 | |
Creator: Sclater, Philip Lutley
|
|||
London
|
|||
Box 12 |
Article from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
|
1868 | |
Creator: Sclater, Philip Lutley
|
|||
Scope and Contents
Notes on the pelicans living in the Society's gardens
|
|||
London
|
|||
Box 12 |
Monographic List of the Copeoptera of the Genus Plusiotis of America, North of Panama,
with Descriptions of Several New Species
|
1875 | |
Creator: Boucard, Adolphe
|
|||
London
|
|||
Box 12 |
Folia Orchidacea - An Enumeration of the Known Species of Orchids
|
1859 | |
London
|
|||
Box 12 |
Exploration of the Ruins and Site of Copan, Central American
|
1886 | |
Creator: Maudsley, A. P.
|
|||
London
|
|||
Box 12 |
The Charter, By-Laws, and Regulations of the Zoological Society of London
|
1868 | |
London
|
|||
Box 12 |
A List of The Fellows and Honorary, Foreign, and Corresponding Members Medalists of
the Zoological Society of London
|
1877, 1881, 1884 | |
London
|
|||
Box 12 |
Guide to the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London
|
1888 | |
Creator: Sclater, Philip Lutley
|
|||
Box 12 |
Report of the Council of the Zoological Society for the Year 1891
|
1892 | |
London
|
|||
Box 13 |
Additional material, photographs
|
Undated | |
Mapcase Folders
|
1861-1892 | ||
Mapcase Folder 1 |
Business Records
|
1861-1892 | |
Scope and Contents
Contains reports, financial records, and charts
|
|||
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
|
|||
Mapcase Folder 2 |
Presidential Election Bulletin
|
1872-01-31 | |
San Salvador, El Salvador
|
|||
Boletin Oficial
|