Albert W. Bash papers
Scope and Contents
The collection contains ticket stubs, correspondence and notes of meetings held in China, photographs, maps, clippings, publications and papers.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1890-1910
Creator
- Bash, Albert Weimer (Author, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is available for research.
Extent
19 Linear Feet (12 document boxes; 1 banker box; 1 flat box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Albert Weimer Bash of Port Townsend, Washington, was involved in the development of a scheme to extend U.S. railway lines across the Pacific Ocean and on through mainland China between 1895 and 1912 and was associated with the American China Development Company and the China Investment and Construction Company. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, maps, clippings, publications and papers.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Frank Goodman Williston.
Processing Information
The collection has never been calendared or organized. A summary of the collection contents is available.
Bash photographs at UW - link to FA at UW
Source
- Williston, Frank Goodman (Donor, Person)
Subject
- China Investment and Construction Company (Organization)
- American China Development Company (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Albert W. Bash Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Elizabeth Knight and Patt Leonard
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for preparing this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Puget Sound, Archives & Special Collections Repository
Collins Memorial Library
1500 N. Warner Street #1021
Tacoma 98416-1021 United States us
archives@pugetsound.edu