Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
MSNC00031 |
Filing Title |
Stokes collection |
Collection |
Stokes collection |
Dates of Creation |
1875-1959 |
Extent |
10 boxes, 5 volumes |
Scope & Content |
Letters, correspondence, business records, and papers. The famous Stokes family of New York (Anson Phelps; J. W.; J. Grahame; Caroline Phelps), capitalists and philanthropists, established several mining and transportation concerns in the Austin and Ione areas of Nevada, achieving considerable financial success for a number of years. The collection contains a large measure of correspondence and records of their companies, namely the Nevada Company, the Austin Mining Company, and the Nevada Central Railroad Company. Correspondents include Grahame H. Hardy, Gilbert H. Kneiss, John M. Hiskey, Trenmore Coffin, James W. McCulloch, Simon Bamberger, Christian Brevoort Zabriskie, Andrew Stevenson, Tasker L. Oddie, Philo T. Farnsworth, Walter C. Gayhart, W. H. Bray, A. C. Luck, George A. Thorpe, and Daniel S. Johnson. |
Language of Material |
English |