Robert Brewster Stanton papers

Title
  1. Robert Brewster Stanton papers, 1851-1960
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  1. Finding Aid
Author
  1. Stanton, Robert Brewster, 1846-1922.

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Additional authors
  1. Akin, Louis.
  2. Burchard, Anne Stanton.
  3. Burchard, Lewis Sayre.
  4. Burchard, S. D. (Samuel Dickinson), 1812-1891.
  5. Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935.
  6. Edwards, William Henry, 1833-1920.
  7. Galloway, Nathan.
  8. Hawkins, William R.
  9. Hislop, John.
  10. Kolb, Ellsworth Leonardson.
  11. Marston, Otis R.
  12. Matthes, François, 1874-1948.
  13. Parry, John E.
  14. Stanton, R. L. (Robert Lodowick), 1810-1885.
  15. Stone, Julius F.
  16. Sumner, John C.
Description
  1. 18.07 linear feet (36 boxes, 2 volumes, 2 oversize folders, 13 tubes, 8 microfilm reels)
Summary
  1. Robert Brewster Stanton (1846-1922) was a civil and mining engineer, who as chief engineer of the Denver, Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad Company led a survey party through the Grand Canyon in 1889-1890. The collection includes correspondence, 1880-1923; field notes and diaries, 1871-1917; photographs, including his Colorado River voyage, 1889-1890, operations of the Hoskannini Mining Company, 1897-1900, and family photographs; writings; maps; printed matter; and family and miscellaneous papers.
Subject
  1. Explorers > Arizona > Grand Canyon
  2. Union Pacific Railway Company
  3. Civil engineers
  4. Mining engineers
  5. Great Bras d'Or Gold Mining Company
  6. Mines and mineral resources > Cuba
  7. Mines and mineral resources > Washington (State)
  8. Railroads > Surveying > 19th century
  9. Hoskannini Company
  10. Stanton, Robert Brewster, 1846-1922
  11. Photographic prints
  12. Tripple Trip Mining Company
  13. Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
  14. Mines and mineral resources > Idaho
  15. World War, 1914-1918
  16. Diaries
  17. Denver, Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad Company
  18. Cincinnati Southern Railway Company
  19. Explorers > Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
  20. Railroads > United States
  21. Maps
  22. Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company
  23. Field notes
  24. Mines and mineral resources > Nova Scotia
  25. Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Genre/Form
  1. Diaries.
  2. Field notes.
  3. Maps.
  4. Photographic prints.
Call number
  1. MssCol 2860
Access (note)
  1. Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
Source (note)
  1. Burchard, Anne Stanton
Processing action (note)
  1. Accessioned
  2. Cataloging updated
Author
  1. Stanton, Robert Brewster, 1846-1922.
Title
  1. Robert Brewster Stanton papers, 1851-1960
Restricted access
  1. Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
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  1. NYPL Digital Collections
  2. Finding Aid
Occupation
  1. Civil engineers.
  2. Mining engineers.
Added author
  1. Akin, Louis.
  2. Burchard, Anne Stanton.
  3. Burchard, Lewis Sayre.
  4. Burchard, S. D. (Samuel Dickinson), 1812-1891.
  5. Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935.
  6. Edwards, William Henry, 1833-1920.
  7. Galloway, Nathan.
  8. Hawkins, William R.
  9. Hislop, John.
  10. Kolb, Ellsworth Leonardson.
  11. Marston, Otis R.
  12. Matthes, François, 1874-1948.
  13. Parry, John E.
  14. Stanton, R. L. (Robert Lodowick), 1810-1885.
  15. Stone, Julius F.
  16. Sumner, John C.
Research call number
  1. MssCol 2860
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