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Levi O. Leonard Railroadiana

: Cities and towns on the Union Pacific Railroad line, mid- to late 1800s

: Correspondece from Grenville M. Dodge to Thomas C. Durant, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1858

: Correspondence and financial statements of Gray, Prince & Co. and H. W. Gray & Co., New York, New York, 1868-1872

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

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

: Correspondence from Ben Holladay to Thomas C. Durant, New York, New York, 1865

: Correspondence of Samuel B. Reed, 1867

: Eastern District of Pennsylvania Circuit Court case: Hazard versus Credit Mobilier of America, October 1878

: Edmund Shore's correspondence and Union Pacific Railroad voucher, 1864

: Grenville M. Dodge correspondence, 1863-1867

: Grenville M. Dodge correspondence, 1868

: Grenville M. Dodge correspondence, 1869-1872

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

: H.M. Hoxie (i.e. Herbert Melville Hoxie) correspondence, January-June 1865

: Houses and buildings on the Union Pacific Railroad line mid- 1800s to early 1900s

: Hurford & Brother invoices and vouchers, Omaha, Nebraska, 1864-1865

: John A. Dix correspondence, 1863-1874

: Letter from M.V. Curley to Thomas C. Durant, Bladensburg, Md., February 3, 1873

: Letter from Peter R. Reed to Thomas C. Durant, Moline, Illinois, September 8, 1863

: Lycurgus Edgerton correspondence, New York, New York, 1866-1870

: Master mechanic Isaac H. Congdon correspondence, 1867-1868

: Northwestern Coal Co. correspondence, statements, invoices, Boone County, Iowa, 1867-1878

: 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

: Red Line Transit Co. correspondence, Boston, Mass., March 9, 1868

: Sidney Dillon correspondence, 1867-1879

: Thomas C. Durant versus Credit Mobilier of America land tenure legal documents, 1881

: Union Pacific Railroad commissioners' report and correspondence, 1863-1869

: Vouchers, receipts and correspondence of J. A. Horbach, Omaha, Nebraska, 1864-1869

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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