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Collection Details
| Collection Name: | James Maxwell Papers |
| Repository Name: | University of Delaware. Library. Special Collections Department [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: | Newark, Delaware, United States |
| URL: | http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/maxwell.htm |
| Dates Spanned: | 1860-1949 |
| Description: | The James R. Maxwell Papers consist of the personal, professional, and family papers of James Maxwell, a resident of Newark, Delaware, and a civil engineer who worked for significant railroads in the American West and South America in the late 19th century. The collection spans the dates 1860-1949, with the bulk of the material from 1867-1900, and illuminates Maxwell's and his family's experiences in Delaware, the American West, Peru, and other countries through which they traveled. |
| Broad Subjects: | Science and Technology; Biography; Transportation |
| ASP Subjects: | Civil engineering; Diaries; Letters; Railroads--United States; United States |
| Collection Code: | OHC0004862 |