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Box 1

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Lester Bernstein's Diary, July 21 1899 to December 31 1899

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

The diary contains travel descriptions of Bernstein's route from New York to Nicaragua and of Nicaragua itself, of his work for the ICC, and of local peoples and customs. It also contains notes from a July 1899 National Geographic Magazine on Nicaragua and signatures of hired local workers.

Dates: July 21 1899 to December 31 1899

List of Men Hired at Granada, 1899

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Probably the list of men hired at Granada upon Bernstein's arrival in Granada (see diary, p. 51), August 1899.

Dates: 1899

Lists of Distribution of Hired Men, 1899

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

3 lists of laborers handed over to other 'overseers' which correspond with p. 64 of the diary, August 31, 1899. The first list of men left with Mr. Merriman, the second of men left with Mr. Clark, and the third of men remaining with Bernstein.

Dates: 1899