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Box 1

Correspondence [almost all are letters of congratulations to Albert Kimsey Owen for having survived the wreck of the Vera Cruz in 1880]. 1879-1880

Physical Description: [83 pieces]

Box 2

Correspondence, articles, and documents chiefly relating to the Topolobampo Colony. After 1880-1923

Physical Description: [81 pieces]

Dates represented: 1880s (8 pieces); 1890 (2 pieces); 1891 (2 pieces); 1893 (4 pieces); 1894 (3 pieces); 1895 (3 pieces); 1896 (2 pieces); 1897 (2 pieces); 1898 (1 piece); 1899 (2 pieces); 1900 (3 pieces); 1901 (3 pieces); 1902 (1 piece); 1903 (33 pieces); 1904 (12 pieces); 1905 (1 piece); 1906 (1 piece); 1907 (2 pieces); 1911 (2 pieces); 1923 (1 piece); and undated (3 pieces).

Box 3

Reports, documents, some photos, and printed materials.

Box 4

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.

Box 5

Diaries and notebooks of Albert Kimsey Owen.

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

Box 6

Two scrapbooks chiefly of newspaper clippings [one is on the sinking of the Vera Cruz in 1880]; 1 issue of El Gazetero, 1903 May 1

Physical Description: 2 volumes

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