Title: Edward Lee Plumb papers
Subjects: Correspondence, Politics and government, American Diplomatic and consular service, Insurgency, Mexican International Railroad, Mexican War, 1846-1848, Railroads, Description and travel, Voyages and travels, Cotton manufacture, Canals, Communication and traffic, Foreign relations, History
Places: Horn, Cape (Chile), Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, West (U.S.), United States, South America, San Francisco (Calif.), Southern States, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
People: Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada (1823-1889), Thomas C. Cox public official, Robert S. Chew, Robert Grant, R. S. Chilton, J. Edgar Thomson (1808-1874), Matías Romero (1837-1898), C. Lennox Wyke Sir, Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), Henry Clay (1777-1852), Manuel Murillo Toro (1816-1880), Charles A. Dana (1819-1897), Lewis D. Campbell (1811-1882), William Henry Seward (1801-1872), Caleb Cushing (1800-1879), Benito Juárez (1806-1872), Charles Sumner (1811-1874), William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869), Edgar Conkling (1812-1881), William Hunter (1774-1849), David Hoadley (1806-1873), Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (1816-1894), Geralt Baron von (d. 1879), Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915)
Time periods: 1861-1867, 1865-1877, 1867-1910