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Levi O. Leonard Railroadiana

: Correspondence on Lemmond Mine, Union County, North Carolina, part 1, 1854-1894

: Correspondence on Lemmond Mine, Union County, North Carolina, part 2, 1854-1894

: Correspondence, real estate query, and eulogies and memorial ceremonies for William West Durant, 1893-1936

: History of Durant, Cedar County, Iowa, 1897-1927

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

: Mining and railway review railroad news, Butte, Mont., June 9, 1898

: Miscellaneous correspondence, journals, receipts and checks belonging to Thomas Clark Durant, part 2, 1872-1899

: Souvenir of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha, Neb., 1898

: Thomas C. Durant estate correspondence, 1885-1910

: William Bush and William West Durant correspondence, August 6, 1894

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University of Iowa

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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