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Box 3

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

[1852] [Hargous, Peter A.] “Remonstrance. The Memorialist, citizens of the United States…” Protesting Mexico’s repudiation of the Memorialists’ franchises and land transfers, which endangered their project to construct the Tehuantepec Railroad across the Isthmus. 36 pp. (Pm, #56)

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Original letters, broadsides, pamphlets, printed materials and books documenting the political and cultural relationships between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, beginning with the heyday of nation formation from 1776 to 1815 and ending with the building of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century. Many of the documents are original government publications such as constitutions, decrees, or presidential and congressional messages, and...
Dates: 1821-1865