(1) Invitation to Edward Chase to excursion from St. Louis to Council Bluffs, Omaha, and the end of the track of the Union Pacific Railroad, September 1868. (2) 2 freight contracts – Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co., 1864. (3) 3 freight contracts – St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad Company, 1864. (4) Ticket, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern R.R. between St. Louis and Meramec St. (Gifts of Mrs. Arthur Stith, nee Bertha Chase, September 1947), 1864 Aug 20-30
Scope and Contents
The Railroads Collection is a subject-based collection that contains correspondence regarding the building of various railroads, traveling on railroads, etc. It also includes timetables and printed matter pertaining to railroads in the United States, mainly in the Midwest and western United States, and a scrapbook of fronts of railroad timetables from the United States dated 1881. In addition, this collection contains a report relating to the transcontinental railroad. Probably a draft, and of unidentified origin, this report relates to plans in the mid-nineteenth century to construct a national Pacific railroad, and, citing the potential of American development in California and Oregon, focuses on the construction of the Missouri portion of this proposed transcontinental railroad.
Dates
- 1864 Aug 20-30
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Extent
From the Collection: 1.1 Cubic Feet ( (2 boxes; 1 volume; 1 oversize item))
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the Missouri Historical Society Library and Research Center Repository