Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Photostat of speech of Thomas Hart Benton, “The Construction of a Grand National Central Highway from St. Louis to San Francisco,” delivered in the Senate of the United States on Dec. 15, 1850. Correspondence arguing Benton’s influence in the beginnings of the Mo. Pacific Railroad. Typescript copy of “Benton and The Railroads,” editorial published in Missouri Republican on August 1, 1856., 1850 Dec 16-1951 May 24
Item — Box: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
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...
Dates:
1850 Dec 16-1951 May 24