Scope and Contents The notebook is a Eugene Dietzgen Co. Engineers’ Field Book containing printed charts and diagrams useful in surveys in addition to lined and graph pages containing field notes by an unidentified surveyor. The notebook pages are numbered. There is a handwritten note on the front cover: “Boonslick Road Survey Notes 1930.” Dates included within the notes for projects in St. Charles County span from May 1930 to September 1937. There are several...

Scope and Contents The volume is approximately four inches wide by ten inches tall, and its binding has been repaired using black electrical tape. It bears no page numbers, no date, no title, nor an inscription with the name of its owner. Each page has a heading with the township number and range description with subheadings for the township sections being described. There are no diagrams or narrative notes, only five columns of information identified on the first line of each page: corners,...

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The collection consists primarily of correspondence to and from General James Wilkinson with several government officials and military officers. The bulk of the correspondence is dated 1805-1806, when Wilkinson served as governor of the Louisiana Territory, and discusses administrative affairs of the territory.