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Ambrose W. Thompson papers, 1847-1960

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BOX 32-42 Business Papers, circa 1850-1882
Memoranda, reports, statistical tables, drawings, patent papers, stocks and bonds, maps, circulars, pamphlets, and printed material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically therein.
BOX 32 Miscellany, undated
BOX 33 International Steamship Co., 1869-1877, undated
BOX 34 Inventions and patents, 1867-1874, undated
BOX 34 Mexican bond fraud, 1864-1870, undated
BOX 35 National Steamship Co., 1859-1869, undated
BOX 36 Railroad enterprises
BOX 36 Brooklyn, Coney Island & Rockaway Railroad, 1877-1878
BOX 36 Metropolitan Railroad Co., 1861-1863
BOX 37 New Jersey Northern Railroad Co., undated
BOX 37 New York, Fort Lee Railroad Co., undated
BOX 37 Tennessee & Pacific Railroad Co., undated
BOX 37 West Shore Hudson River Railroad Co., 1867-1872, undated
BOX 38 Railroad miscellany, including material on the Union Pacific, Erie, Pennsylvania, Eastern Shore, Lonaconing & Cumberland, Texas & New Orleans, New York Central, Mississippi & Pacific, New York & Northwestern, Chesapeake & Ohio, and Northern Pacific railroads, 1849-1878, undated
BOX 39 Steamship miscellany, predominantly shipbuilding and maintenance cost records, 1851-1873, undated
BOX 40 Trade and commerce memoranda, 1860-1879, undated
BOX 41 Trans-Oceanic Steamship Enterprises, predominantly mail and immigration memoranda, 1851-18175, undated
BOX 42 West Virginia coal lands, 1871-1881, undated
BOX 43-49 Chiriqui Improvement Company File, 1851-1960
Correspondence, business papers, maps, biographical notes and other material.
Arranged in two groups: Set I, 1851-1882; and Set II, 1883-1960. Correspondence was removed from the first group and filed in the General Correspondence Series.
BOX 43 Set I
BOX 43 1851-1866
BOX 44 1868-1882
BOX 45 Undated, pre-1882
BOX 46 Set II
BOX 46 1883-1941
BOX 47 1842-1946
BOX 48 1947-1955
BOX 49 1956-1960
BOX 49 Undated. post-1882
BOX 49 Maps
BOX 49 Biographer's notes
BOX 50-52 Financial Papers
Checks, bills, and receipts.
Arranged by type of material.
BOX 50-52 Bills, receipts, and checks
BOX 53 Miscellany
Maps, engineering drawings, pamphlets, clippings and advertisements.
Arranged by type of material, name of company, or subject.
BOX 53 Maps See Oversize
BOX 53 Engineering drawings, 1873-1874 See Oversize
BOX 53 Printed matter
BOX OV 1-OV 2 Oversize
Maps and engineering drawings.
Arranged and described according to the series and container from which they were removed.
BOX OV 1 Miscellany
BOX OV 1 Maps (Container 53)
BOX OV 2 Engineering drawings, 1873-1874 (Container 53)

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