Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter signed J.P. (John Palmer) Usher, Washington, to W.W. Belknap, Sec. of War. I intended when at the War Department to have invited you to select a party of your friends and with them pass over our Kansas Pacific Railroad. It will be completed by the 15th next month. Individuals mentioned: Mr. John D. Perry. Places mentioned: St. Louis., 1870 July 20
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:
1870 July 20