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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Joseph Cowles Mehaffey papers, 1925-1959 (bulk 1944-1949)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Mehaffey, Joseph Cowles</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1889-1963</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>3</extent>
    <extent>1.2</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, reports, notes, articles, pamphlets, clippings, and other papers relating primarily to life in the Canal Zone and to the operation of the Panama Canal.  Other subjects include the Panama Railroad Co., Central America, Panama, and Mehaffey's various engineering projects, including Arlington Memorial Bridge (Va.) and renovation of the White House.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>U.S. Army engineer and governor of the Panama Canal Zone.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012161">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012161</note>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Panama Railroad Co.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>White House (Washington, D.C.)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Bridges</topic>
    <geographic>Potomac River</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Canals</topic>
    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Civil engineering</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Public buildings</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Railroads</topic>
    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
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  <subject>
    <geographic>Arlington Memorial Bridge (Va.)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Canal Zone</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Canal Zone</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Central America</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Panama Canal (Panama)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Engineers</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Governors</occupation>
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