CSUF: Henry Madden Library

Topolobampo Collection

Records of the Credit Foncier of Sinaloa Company and its failed utopian colony at Topolobampo Bay in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico in the late nineteenth century. Also includes the business records and personal papers of Albert Kimsey Owen (1847-1916), the colony’s founder.

There are more than 500 photographs taken at Topolobampo by the colony’s official photographer, Ira Kneeland. Photographs were digitized under the CSU Grant For Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity 1996-1997.