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Above the French lines : letters of Stuart Walcott, American aviator : July 4, 1917, to December 8, 1917
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An oration, delivered at Roxbury, July 4, 1799, in commemoration of American independence. : By Thomas Beedé. [Six lines from Addison]
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The Lincoln County Record, October 18, 1928 (5), October 25, 1928, November 1, 1928 (3) November 22, 1928 (4), December 6, 1928 (4), June 27, 1929 (4), September 19, 1929 (3). The Pioche Record, February 25, 1932 (2), March 24, 1932, July 7, 1932 (2), February 2, 1933 (2), April 20, 1933 (2), June 1, 1933 (2), June 29, 1933, July 6, 1933, November 23, 1933, December 28, 1933, January 25, 1934, February 8, 1934, April 19, 1934 (3), April 11, 1935 (2), April 25, 1935 (3), June 27, 1935 (3), July 11, 1935, October 23, 1958, November 27, 1958, January 1, 1959, April 4, 1963, January 16, 1964, February 20, 1964 (2), April 23, 1964, January 27, 1966, May 5, 1966, and June 2, 1966
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The John Janney collection contains correspondence and business records related to mining in the early 20th century American West. Included are files related to John Janney's several properties and interests, most of which were in Lincoln County, Nevada, including the Ely Valley Mines, Mountain View Hotel, Pioche Mines Company, Pioche Power and Light Company, and Tenabo Mining and Smelting Company. This collection exists as an extensive and rich documentation of Nevada mining, especially during the Great Depression and World War II.
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"Expropriation of Land in Lower California." File 089-4, Part 1. From (~1.5"). Includes some U.S. govt. docs, such as an item on the American Mexican Claims Commission, dated 1943 ("Established pursuant to the Settlement of Mexican Claims Act of 1942.") Talk about an irresistable force meeting an immovable object: the SP, king of the land-grabbing railroads, versus the Carranza/Cardenas/Camacho land-redistributing agrarian machine! In this body of material, the SPM is trying to reclaim lands they considered theirs by some earlier precedents and agreements, most of which predate the 1917 Constitution. But it's clear from this that even the U.S. govt., in the form of the Agrarian Claims Commission, doesn't think the SP has any claim to certain contested lands in Mexico. On Oct. 8, 1940, ACC Executive Officer George H. Winters politely but firmly responds in a three-page letter to SP VP W.A. Worthington that "It is not clear how the agreements of Dec. 28, 1915 and June 22, 1916 [which he details at the start of letter] can, of themselves, properly be regarded as establishing any interest on the part of the Southern Pacific Company in the lands in question." He goes on to note that "From the language of the first of those arguments it seems to be obvious that the creation of any interest in the lands here involved on the part of the claimant depended upon the performance of a number of conditions subsequent. The record contains no direct evidence as to the performance of those conditions...," etc. This letter is quite revealing of U.S. policy with regard to American land claims. The FDR government's Good Neighborhood-ism colors a lot of this, in fascinating ways. This also involves the SP-sheltered venture known as the "Compa-ia de Terrenos Y Aguas de La Baja California," which is noted elsewhere in this survey (specifically, see II:4, XIII:1, XIII:4). Also contains large envelope with maps, other materials; didn't look inside envelope
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These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
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