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Real Estate

Aitken, Robert to John Nicholson containing Aitken’s proposal to sell the printing house property purchased from Ludwig

Letter from Robert Aitken to John Nicholson, August 14, 1797, containing Aitken’s proposal to sell the printing house property purchased…

Aitken, Robert to John Nicholson regarding money due on property purchased by Aitken from Ludwig

Letter from Robert Aitken to John Nicholson, July 7, 1797, regarding money due on property purchased by Aitken from Ludwig…

Astor House Entrance

Astor Library Exterior, New York City

Astor Library Interior

ca. 1854

Astor, John Jacob

Over the course of John Jacob Astor's career, he applied his great entrepreneurial talent to build the first modern American trade empire with partners in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Broadway

Broadway, New York. Showing each building from the Hygeian Depot corner of Canal Street to beyond Niblo's Garden. Published by…

Broadway Panorama

A panoramic view of Broadway, New York City (Engraving by Henry Bircher. Published 1854).

Capitola Hotel, Capitola, California, n.d.

Contract of Indenture for Land on which the Rittenhouse Paper Mill was built

DeHaan, Christel

Although she grew up struggling in post World War II Germany, in 1996 Christel DeHaan became one of the wealthiest women in the United States when, at the age of fifty-four, she sold her company Resort Condominiums International (RCI) for $825 million.

Gratz, Michael

Brothers Barnard Gratz and Michael Gratz were merchants and land speculators from the Prussian occupied territory of Silesia whose commercial enterprises connected Philadelphia to port cities in other continental American colonies, the Caribbean, and Europe, and to the North American frontier.

Hihn Real Estate Advertisement

Hihn-Younger Archive, Special Collections, University Library, University of California at Santa Cruz.

Created By: UC Santa Cruz

Hihn, Frederick Augustus

German immigrant Frederick A. Hihn arrived in San Francisco as part of the Gold Rush and later amassed vast landholdings in Santa Cruz County. He spent much of his life developing property around existing towns and creating new vacation communities along Monterey Bay.

Hotel El Paso de Robles, Paso Robles, California, n.d

John Jacob Astor: Business Man

Created By: Kenneth W. Porter Publisher: New York, NY: Russell & Russell, 1931

John Jacob Astor: Der erfolgreichste deutsche Auswanderer

Created By: Alexander Emmerich Publisher: Stuttgart: Konrad-Theiss-Verlag, 2009

Kaiser, Henry J. at expansion project for Hawaiian Village Hotel, Honolulu, 1956

Henry J. Kaiser at expansion project for Hawaiian Village Hotel, Honolulu, 1956

Keppele, John Henry

John Henry Keppele was a successful, respected, and well-known butcher, innkeeper, merchant, ship owner, and real estate entrepreneur.

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