Box 1
Container
Contains 162 Results:
Six promissory notes signed Jas. B. Eads (in the amount of $92,000), Barrett Williams (in the amount of $30,000), John A. Dillon (in the amount of $41,000), Jas. B. Eads (in the amount of $132,000), James F. How (in the amount of $85,500), and James F. How (in the amount of $173,424)., 1873-1876
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:
1873-1876
Invitation to take the first train across the Eads Bridge [gift of Mrs. Guthrie McConnell, May 1945]., 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 take the first train across the Eads 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
Invitation to take the first train across the Eads Bridge and two tickets, one for the celebration and one for the special train [accession number: 57-0129]., 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
Invitation to Louisiana state senator Ferdinand Dudenhefer to attend the formal opening of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge. Invitation includes engraved illustration of James Eads and the bridge [gift of Mrs. Mary A. Dudenhefer, March 15, 1953]., 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
Invitation to Mrs. Mary L. Taussig of New York 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
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