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Box 1

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Contains 15 Results:

Invitation to C.B. Tilden of Carondelet, Missouri, to attend the formal opening of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge. Invitation includes engraved illustration of James Eads and the bridge., 1874 June

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates: 1874 June

Two invitations to attend the formal opening of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge. Invitations include engraved illustration of James Eads and the bridge [gift of A.D. Daily, February 21, 1957]., 1874 June

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates: 1874 June

Document signed James B. Eads: "This is to certify that for value received from Genl. Horace Porter of New York, I have this day assigned to him one fourth interest in my proposition to the United States, now pending in the Senate, for the improvement of the navigation of the mouth of the Mississippi River, and hereby agree that he shall be entitled to one quarter of the net profits which I may receive for improving the said mouth of the Mississippi, either by canal, jetties, or in any other manner, either during the present congress or the next one; the intent being to make the said Porter fully interested in my contemplated enterprise above mentioned, and to the extent above stated." Additional note reads, "Cancelled July 6th 1876, Jas. B. Eads.", 1874 July 1

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates: 1874 July 1

Letter signed Braxton Bragg, Galveston, Texas, to Capt. Jas. B. Eads, St. Louis. Includes an extract of a letter from General J.G. Barnard, U.S. Engineers, which discusses Barnard's views relating to the mouth of the Mississippi River. (includes typed transcription), 1874 July 20

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates: 1874 July 20

Letter signed C. Schurz [Carl Schurz], Narragansett Pier, R.I., to Capt. Eads. Mentions that he will leave soon for St. Louis and regrets that Eads will not be there. Mentions that Eads' personal advocacy of his [Eads] plans before the commission will be needed. Encourages Eads to visit his brother-in-law Heinrich C. Meyer in Hamburg, Germany., 1874 July 27

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates: 1874 July 27