This collection contains documents, manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera assembled by author and collector Grahame H. Hardy reflecting a range of legal, administrative, municipal, and real estate-related transactions initiated by railroad and mining interests, businessmen, and municipalities in the San Francisco Bay area, Northern California, and western Nevada in the second half of the 19th century. The correspondence also contains letters between parties involved in the construction of the Nicaragua Canal.

85 items in 4 boxes

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