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Chicle gum in specimen jar

1850-1900

Freeze dried specimen of yam, Dioscorea composita, United States, 1985-1995

1985-1995
Papers of Harry Usher, (1889-1937). Harry Usher (d. 1927) was a former General Manager of the Buenos Ayres & Pacific Railway, a post he held from 1914 to 1926. Prior to that he had worked in various accounting, administrative and managerial roles for railways in Uruguay, Mexico, Costa Rica, South Africa, Chile and Cuba. The collection tells a ‘world’ railway story and gives a well-illustrated overview of a career railway administrator. Much of it is career-illustrative material – contracts, cuttings, regulation books, maps etc. However, there are several notebooks and photographs to give more depth and detail to the work Usher did. Moreover, there is material from every stage of his career. 4 boxes, 1 folder.

Papers of Harry Usher

1889-1937