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Levi O. Leonard Railroadiana

: Chicago, Rock Island Railroad mineral claims journal, 1860s?

: Communications regarding railroad court cases and transfer of stock certificates, New York, 186-

: Correspondence and receipts for the sale of Mississippi and Missouri Railroad bonds, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1860s

: Correspondence from Charles H. Matthews to Henry C. Crane, New York, 1860s?

: Correspondence from H.V.N. Boynton, 1860s

: Correspondence from John E. Penny to Thomas C. Durant, Ogallala, Neb., 1860s

: Correspondence from Union Pacific Railroad surveyor and engineer F.M. Case to T.C. Durant regarding proposed railroad routes, payment of salary, and hostile Indians, 1860s

: Delaware Saw Mill delivery notes, 1860s

: Dustin F. Mellen patent affadavit, New York, New York, 1860s

: Fishing resort and railroad construction, 1860s?

: George W. McDowell note, 1860s?

: Henry Bradley correspondence, 1860s

: Index to book, T.C. Durant, 1860s?

: Index to general ledger of Union Pacific Railroad Co., 1860s?

: Letter of recommendation from Catherine Morgan Dix to Thomas C. Durant, 1860s

: Minutes of the proceedings of the Executive Committee of the Union Pacific Railroad, 1860s

: Mississippi and Missouri Railroad blueprints, 1860s?

: Note regarding legal matter, 1860s?

: Proposal and estimates for building a railroad between Butte, Montana, and Boise, Idaho, 1860s?

: Proposal for Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad, 1860s?

: Telegram from George Crisman to Thomas C. Durant, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1860s

: Thomas Clark Durant's accounting records, 1860s

: Union Pacific Railroad 800 mile construction graph, 1860s

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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