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Alban Nelson Towne and Caroline Amelia Mansfield Towne correspondence and photograph
MS 581
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Title: Alban Nelson Towne and Caroline Amelia Mansfield Towne correspondence and photograph
Dates: May 9, 1883 - Oct. 29, 1883
Collection Number: MS 581
Creator/Collector:
Towne, Caroline Amelia Mansfield
Extent: 2 items
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Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: Correspondence and a photograph.
Language of Material: English
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Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
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as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
Alban Nelson Towne and Caroline Amelia Mansfield Towne correspondence and photograph. California State Railroad Museum Library
and Archives
Grahame H. Hardy
Scope and Content of Collection
Includes: printed invitation to the wedding of Hattie P. Rice to Arthur A. Smith (May 9, 1883), sent by her uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs. Alban Nelson Towne. The invitation is addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Hetherington. There is also a letter from Mrs.
Towne (Caroline Amelia Mansfield Towne) to Mrs. Hetherington, October 29, [1883?]. The Museum also has a photograph (P-501)
of Caroline A. Towne, taken by Isaiah West Taber. Pasted to the back of this photograph is a letter (May 24) recommending
Josephine Hetherington for a position as a companion.
Towne, Alban Nelson, 1829-1896