Ambrose W. Thompson papers, (Record no. 42312)
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| LC control number | mm 79042804 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| Description conventions | dacs |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
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| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | W |
| Source | lcmd |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Thompson, Ambrose W. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Ambrose W. Thompson papers, |
| Inclusive dates | 1847-1960 |
| Bulk dates | (bulk 1860-1882). |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 12,000 |
| Type of unit | items. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 53 |
| Type of unit | containers plus |
| Extent | 2 |
| Type of unit | oversize. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 26 |
| Type of unit | linear feet. |
| 351 ## - ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS | |
| Organization | Arranged in 9 series. Series 1: Memoranda Book, 1860; Series 2: Family Correspondence, 1860-1895; Series 3: General Correspondence, 1847-1896; Series 4: Letterbooks, 1851-1882; Series 5: Business Papers, circa 1850-1882; Series 6: Chiriqui Improvement Company File, 1851-1960; Series 7: Financial Papers; Series 8: Miscellany; and Series 9: Oversize. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open to research. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Business and family correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, reports, statistical tables, patent papers, stocks and bonds, printed matter, drawings, maps, and other papers relating chiefly to Thompson's business interests in canals, land speculation, railroads, and steamships. Records of the Chiriqui Improvement Company pertain to its efforts to establish a colony of freedmen from the District of Columbia in Chiriqui Province, Panama, as well as to develop the company's transportation and mining interests in Panama. Includes correspondence of Thompson's son, Ambrose Thompson, Jr., pertaining to his role in his father's enterprises. Correspondents include James Mitchell Ashley, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Simon Cameron, John A. Dix, William Maxwell Evarts, Lucius Fairchild, Gustavus Vasa Fox, William Henry Hurlbert, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Francis Meagher, Juan Pattison, Francis Harrison Pierpont, S.C. Pomeroy, David D. Porter, Fitz-John Porter, Samuel Shellabarger, Franz Sigel, Caleb B. Smith, Richard W. Thompson, John Palmer Usher, and Henry A. Wise. |
| 545 0# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | Businessman. Born 1811. Died 1882. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material in English, with Spanish, German, and French. |
| 555 8# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ashley, James Mitchell, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1824-1896 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1822-1893 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cameron, Simon, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1799-1889 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dix, John A. |
| Fuller form of name | (John Adams), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1798-1879 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Evarts, William Maxwell, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1818-1901 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Fairchild, Lucius, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1831-1896 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Fox, Gustavus Vasa, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1821-1883 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hurlbert, William Henry, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1827-1895 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lincoln, Abraham, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1809-1865 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Meagher, Thomas Francis, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1823-1867 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pattison, Juan |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pierpont, Francis Harrison, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1814-1899 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pomeroy, S. C. |
| Fuller form of name | (Samuel Clarke), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1816-1891 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Porter, David D. |
| Fuller form of name | (David Dixon), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1813-1891 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Porter, Fitz-John, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1822-1901 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Shellabarger, Samuel, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1888-1954 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sigel, Franz, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1824-1902 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Smith, Caleb B. |
| Fuller form of name | (Caleb Blood), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1808-1864 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Thompson, Ambrose, |
| Titles and other words associated with a name | Jr. |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Thompson, Richard W. |
| Fuller form of name | (Richard Wigginton), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1809-1900 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Usher, John Palmer, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1816-1889 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wise, Henry A. |
| Fuller form of name | (Henry Alexander), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1806-1876 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 30 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Thompson family |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Chiriqui Improvement Company. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | African Americans |
| General subdivision | Colonization. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | African Americans |
| Geographic subdivision | Washington (D.C.) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Canals. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Freedmen |
| General subdivision | Colonization. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Land speculation. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Mines and mineral resources |
| Geographic subdivision | Panama. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Railroads. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Steamboats. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Transportation |
| Geographic subdivision | Panama. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Chiriquí (Panama : Province) |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Panama |
| General subdivision | Colonization. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Panama |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | To 1903. |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Businessmen. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012113.3</a> |
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