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Levi O. Leonard Railroadiana

: Account records of Thomas C. Durant, 1864-1875

: Balance sheets, checks and contract by Nelson A. Gesner, New York, New York, 1866-1868

: Correspondence and legal documents pertaining to Union Pacific Railroad payments and contracts, New York, N.Y., 1864-1865

: Correspondence and telegrams from M. K. Jesup & Company to Thomas C. Durant, Oliver Ames and Henry C. Crane, New York, New York, 1864-1869

: Correspondence between Henry C. Crane and Thomas C. Durant, June 1866-1867

: Correspondence from William C. McDowell to Thomas C. Durant, Leavenworth, Kansas, 1865-1866

: Correspondence of John H. McDowell, 1863-1873

: Correspondence of Wilhelmina W. Train, 1863-1874

: Credit Mobilier of America contract accounts and records, 1863-1872

: Dilworth, Porter & Co. correspondence, financial statements and stock certificates, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1865-1868

: Durkee versus United States of America correspondence, 1914-1937

: Fitzhugh Coyle's request that T.C. Durant manage his railroad stock, 1864

: H. M. Hoxie (i.e. Herbert Melville Hoxie) contracts and assignments, 1864-1868

: Hazard versus Thomas C. Durant miscellaneous correspondence, 1879-1880

: John Pondir accounts, financial statements, correspondence, New York, New York, 1866-1871

: Legal correspondence regarding case of Alice Farnam vs. Heloise H. Durant plus land deeds, 1875-1890

: Legal documents, bank checks, receipts of Heloise H. Durant, 1864-1881

: Materials documenting the building and promotion of the Rock Island Railroad and subsidiaries, 1854-1933

: Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company stocks and bond trading, 1856-1860

: Proposals to T.C. Durant about funding the building of a railroad bridge across the Missouri River at Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1866-1868

: Pullman's Palace Car Company correspondence, 1867-1873

: Union Pacific Railroad contract between Samuel Hallett and Thomas C. Durant, February 3, 1864

: Union Pacific Railroad correspondence for Thomas C. Durant, 1864-1868

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Title: Levi O. Leonard Railroadiana
Date Created: 1839/1937
Description: Levi O. Leonard (1854-1942) was a historian, journalist and long-time employee of the Union Pacific and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroads. He co-authored, with Jack T. Johnson, A Railroad to the Sea (Iowa City: Midland House, 1939) about the building of the Union Pacific. Featured in this digital collection are more than 3500 digital images of historic photographs, correspondence, and other documents representing Leonard's lifetime dedication to and preservation of railroad history.
Language: English
Subjects: Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Railroad companies
Railroad locomotives
Railroad travel
Railroad construction & maintenance
Subject: Time: 1860-1870
1870-1880
Subject: Place: United States
Archival Collection: Levi O. Leonard Railroadiana
Abraham Lincoln Collection
Levi O. Leonard papers
Collection Identifier: MSC0159
Collection Guide: http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/2/resources/176
Host institution: University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Department
Digitization Specifications: Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 2335 scanner at 600 ppi, 8-bit grayscale. Archival tiff available.
Date Digital: 2008/2013
Rights Management: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Contact Information: Contact the Special Collections Department at The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/contact
Item Type (DCMI): Collection
Item Type (AAT): correspondence
vouchers (sales records)
account books
Item Type (IMT): jpeg