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Levi O. Leonard Railroadiana

: Accounts of Thomas C. Durant, 1860-1874

: Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad correspondence regarding connection with the Union Pacific Railroad, 1864-1865

: Central Trunk Railroad of Iowa stockholders' agreement, January 1865

: Correspondence between Henry C. Crane and Thomas C. Durant, July 1864-May 1866

: Correspondence between John L. Coffin, land agent in Davenport, Iowa, and land speculator Thomas Clark Durant in New York, part 2, 1868-1874

: Correspondence between John L. Coffin, land agent in Davenport, Iowa, and land speculator Thomas Clark Durant in New York, part 3, 1874

: Correspondence from John P. Cook to Thomas C. Durant, Washington, D.C., 1856-1857

: Correspondence, receipts, invoices from George T. M. Davis, 1859-1864

: George B. McCartee correspondence, 1864-1867

: Grenville M. Dodge correspondence, 1869-1872

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

: H. M. Hoxie (i.e. Herbert Melville Hoxie) correspondence, 1867

: H. M. Hoxie (i.e. Herbert Melville Hoxie) correspondence, June-December 1866

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

: H.M. Hoxie and Thomas C. Durant contract and receipts, 1866-1869

: Information cards issued by Rock Island Railroad about their employees and wages paid in towns along the lines, Chicago, Ill., 1929?

: John L. Coffin correspondence regarding Iowa land sale, Davenport, Iowa, 1860-1875

: List of Iowa and Nebraska land owned by J.J. Dixwell and Massachusetts Bank, Boston, Mass., 1863

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

: Mississippi and Missouri Railroad blueprints, 1860s?

: Newspaper accounts of the history of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail Road Co., 1886-1930

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

: Receipts for payments made to Lewis Carmichael, supplier for the Union Pacific Railroad construction, 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