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Box 2

 Container

Contains 42 Results:

Newsclipping from The Galveston Daily News with speech of General Joseph O. Shelby. Includes both the original and a copy. (1 page), 1865 May 13

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of papers both belonging to, and collected by, Henry W. Williams, including his correspondence and scrapbooks, various items from the Civil War, and papers regarding steamboats and financial markets.

Dates: 1865 May 13

Scrapbook of contemporary newsclippings regarding Union regiments. (90 pages), No date

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of papers both belonging to, and collected by, Henry W. Williams, including his correspondence and scrapbooks, various items from the Civil War, and papers regarding steamboats and financial markets.

Dates: No date

Manuscript entitled “Steamboats on Western Waters,” provides list of steamboats built on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. List includes the name of the boat, where and when it was built, and how it was destroyed. (70 pages), [1852]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of papers both belonging to, and collected by, Henry W. Williams, including his correspondence and scrapbooks, various items from the Civil War, and papers regarding steamboats and financial markets.

Dates: [1852]

Notes regarding steamboats that had problems with their boilers with an introduction on how the list was compiled. (3 pages), No date

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of papers both belonging to, and collected by, Henry W. Williams, including his correspondence and scrapbooks, various items from the Civil War, and papers regarding steamboats and financial markets.

Dates: No date

Various small lists of steamboats. (3 pages), No date

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of papers both belonging to, and collected by, Henry W. Williams, including his correspondence and scrapbooks, various items from the Civil War, and papers regarding steamboats and financial markets.

Dates: No date

Lists of steamboats destroyed by snags and other obstructions, fire, collisions, and explosions on the western waters. (31 pages), No date

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of papers both belonging to, and collected by, Henry W. Williams, including his correspondence and scrapbooks, various items from the Civil War, and papers regarding steamboats and financial markets.

Dates: No date

Printed charts showing the variations in the prices of commodities in the New Orleans market. (1 page), 1867-1868

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of papers both belonging to, and collected by, Henry W. Williams, including his correspondence and scrapbooks, various items from the Civil War, and papers regarding steamboats and financial markets.

Dates: 1867-1868

Pamphlet, printed in New York, entitled “How to Make the Country Prosperous, and Give Employment to Labor.” (4 pages), 1874 Dec

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of papers both belonging to, and collected by, Henry W. Williams, including his correspondence and scrapbooks, various items from the Civil War, and papers regarding steamboats and financial markets.

Dates: 1874 Dec

Front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer includes article on currency contraction. (1 page), 1875 May 24

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of papers both belonging to, and collected by, Henry W. Williams, including his correspondence and scrapbooks, various items from the Civil War, and papers regarding steamboats and financial markets.

Dates: 1875 May 24

Four printed reports from the Office of the Mercantile Agency regarding economic failures. (13 pages), 1876 Apr 14-1877 July 13

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of papers both belonging to, and collected by, Henry W. Williams, including his correspondence and scrapbooks, various items from the Civil War, and papers regarding steamboats and financial markets.

Dates: 1876 Apr 14-1877 July 13