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Topolobampo Collection

Owning Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

About this Collection

The Topolobampo Collection contains Albert Kimsey Owen's business records and promotional materials related to the colony and railroad enterprise established on Topolobampo Bay, Sinaloa, Mexico between 1872 and 1910. Materials include business correspondence, writings by Owen, legal documents, descriptions of corporate entities, promotional materials, images of the colony, maps, and plans of Pacific City. Prominent correspondents include C.B. Hoffman, John W. Lovell, J.H. Rice, and Arthur E. Stilwell. Corporations represented in the collection include the Credit Foncier Company; the Texas, Topolobampo and Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company; the Mexican Western Railroad; and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company. Materials that describe day-to-day life in the colony are not represented in the collection. View this collection on the contributor's website.
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Address by Albert K. Owen to Cooperators at Woolrich, England - The …
The Albert Owen Plan of Integral Cooperation: The Problem Stated
Alfaro Lawsuit
Chronological list of correspondents
Colony Map - Plan of Topolobampo Harbor and Vicinage by A. K. …
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