Manuscript maps
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
David Tilden Brown Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-1819
Abstract
Letters, receipts, contracts, 2 manuscript maps, and drawings pertaining to Brown's activities in Nicaragua around 1848-1850. Brown traveled to Central America in 1849 planning to establish a cheaper and faster commercial route west from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean across the isthmus of Nicaragua. Brown and several associates formed the Compañía de Vapores de Nicaragua and, on March 14, 1849, negotiated the first treaty with General José Trinidad Muñoz for exclusive rights to steamship...
Dates:
1848-1866; Majority of material found in 1849 - 1849
Olin D. Wheeler papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3220
Abstract
Mainly correspondence, notes, and writings of author, topographer, and Northern Pacific Railway executive Olin Dunbar Wheeler regarding Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn; also articles about Wheeler and reviews of his work.
Dates:
1892-1924