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Wiscasset Mining Company

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Collection Type

  • Manuscripts

Location Note

Folders #26.1-26.17

GUSN

GUSN-288637

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Description

This series, within the papers of Richard Holbrook Tucker (1816-1895), includes documents related to Captain Tucker's gold mining operations (Wiscasset Mining Company) in Nova Scotia.

Details

Descriptive Terms

mining
gold mines
business records
correspondence
maps
deeds
accounts
legal documents
financial records

Physical Description

Business records (15 folders)

Collection Code

MS033

Collection Name

Tucker family papers

Reference Code

MS033.002.006

Acquisition Type

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Jane Standen Tucker, 1998.

Places

Wiscasset (Lincoln county, Maine)
Nova Scotia (Canada) [province]

Record Details

Originator

Tucker, Richard Holbrook, 1816-1895

Material Type

business records
correspondence
maps
deeds
accounts
legal documents
financial records

Description Level

Sub-series

Location Note

Folders #26.1-26.17

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