Pacific Mail Steamship Company

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Contains letters, a schedule, a drawing, and a photograph copy

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Contains letters and a memorandum

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Contains letters, notes, and a compromise

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Contains letters and telegrams

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Contains letters

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Contains letters, translations, questions, statements, and canal profiles

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Contains letters and a telegram

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Contains letters

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Contains reports, financial records, and charts

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: 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...