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Title: American Dredging Company incoming correspondence
Dates: 1870-1881
Collection Call Number: mssAmericanDredgingcorrespondence
Creator:
American Dredging Company
Extent:
140 letters in 1 box
Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The incoming correspondence of the American Dredging Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
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[Identification of item], American Dredging Company incoming correspondence, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
The collection was purchased from Michael Brown in June 2014.
The American Dredging Company was originally incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1867. John Somers was the president
and Franklin B. Colton was the treasurer. It is one of the most famous dredging companies in American history. After operating
independently for over 125 years, it was purchased by Weeks Marine in 1993.
This incoming correspondence deals mostly with the company's work on the Dutch Gap on the James River Improvement Project
in Virginia, their work with the U.S. Engineer's Office on the Philadelphia Navy Yard at League Island, and their work with
the Coosaw Mining Company in Charleston, South Carolina. The correspondence also deals with several other projects. Most of
the correspondence is written to Somers and Colton. Correspondents include: William P. Craighill, William Ludlow, Franklin
C. Prindle, Robert Ransom, Andrew Adger, David Lopez, Benjamin Maillefert, and Grantham Israel Taggart, Sr. (list is not exhaustive).
The correspondence had previously been bound together (now separated). There is some water damage to the letters; some letters
are stuck together. Fragile condition.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged chronologically.
Adger, Andrew Moffett, 1846-1915.
Colton, Franklin B., active 1871, recipient.
Craighill, Wm. P. (William Price), 1833-1909.
Lopez, David, 1809-1884.
Maillefert, Benjamin S. H., 1813-1884.
Prindle, Franklin Cogswell, 1841-1923.
Ransom, R. (Robert), 1828-1892.
Somers, John S., 1816-1894, recipient.
Taggart, Grantham Israel, 1828-1905.
Philadelphia (Pa.).
Coosaw Mining Company.
James River Improvement Company.
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dredges.
Dredging.
Engineers--United States--Correspondence.
Business records--Pennsylvania--19th century.
Correspondence--United States--19th century.