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Pacific Improvement Company Records
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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Pacific Improvement Company records
Creator:
Pacific Improvement Company
Identifier/Call Number: JL017
Identifier/Call Number: 133
Physical Description:
Approximately 90 Linear Feet
(51 flat boxes, 40 cartons, 26 manuscript boxes, 5 half boxes, 4 volumes, and 1 map folder)
Date (inclusive): 1863-1967
Language of Material:
English
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Contains business records of the Pacific Improvement Company and its subsidiaries. Includes business and legal documents,
correspondence, reports, minutes, deeds, annual reports, maps, and blueprints. Contains materials related to the Monterey
Peninsula and its development. Business areas covered include land development, coal and iron mining, railroads, and hotels.
Pacific Improvement Company was a large holding company in California, formed by C. P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins,
and Charles Crocker. The Company played a role in the development of land and railroads in various parts of the United States,
but particularly in California and Texas. The Company was incorporated November 4, 1878 and completed liquidation of its assets
in 1967.
[Identification of item] Pacific Improvement Company Records, JL017, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Gift of Crocker Estate to Jackson Library in 1970. Transferred to Department of Special Collections in 1979.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual & born-digital
materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Coal mines and mining
Railroad engineering
Real estate development -- California.
Hotel management -- California.
Holding Companies -- California.
Monterey Peninsula (Calif.)
Railroad -- Design and construction
Stanford, Leland
Crocker, Charles
Huntington, Collis Potter
Carbon Hill Coal Company
Hotel Del Monte (Monterey, Calif.)
Oakland Water Front Company
Crocker-Hoffman Land and Water Company