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Title: The charter and other acts of the Legislature in relation to the South-Carolina Rail Road Company
Date: 1851, 1851

Title: Report of the Committee of Inspection on the condition of the South-Carolina Rail-Road
Date: 1848, 1848

Title: Proceedings of the stockholders of the South-Carolina Rail-Road Company, and the South-Western Railroad Bank 1844
Date: 1844, 1845

Title: Charles Deas, Winnebago with Bear-Claw Necklace and Spiked Club
Date: 1842
Description: Winnebago (now Ho-Chunk) chieftain painted by Charles Deas by 1842, oil on canvas laid down on masonite, 36 inches high by 30 inches wide.

Title: Charles Deas, Winnebago with Bear-Claw Necklace and Spear
Date: 1842
Description: Winnebago (now Ho-Chunk) chieftain painted by Charles Deas by 1842, oil on canvas laid down on masonite, 36 inches high by 30 inches wide.

Title: Charles Deas, Winnebago with Peace Medal and Pipe
Date: 1842
Description: Winnebago (now Ho-Chunk) chieftain painted by Charles Deas by 1842, oil on canvas laid down on masonite, 36 inches high by 30 inches wide.

Title: Lemasson or Henry Lewis, St. Louis Riverfront after the Great Fire, 1849
Date: 1849
Description: Panoramic watercolor painting depicts the aftermath of a fire that destroyed much of the St. Louis riverfront in 1849, showing burned out buildings, the wreckage of steamboats and damaged docks. Signed lower right "Lemasson" and inscribed lower margin "Locust St."

Title: Charles Deas, Winnebago (Wa-kon-cha-hi-re-ga) in a Bark Lodge
Date: 1842
Description: Winnebago (now Ho-Chunk) chieftain painted by Charles Deas by 1842, oil on canvas laid down on masonite, 36 inches high by 30 inches wide.

Title: Charles Deas, Portrait of a Woman
Date: 1840
Description: Portrait of a woman, possibly of the Atwater family, oil on paperboard attached to wood panel, 12 1/8 inches by 9 3/4 inches, 1840

Title: 2nd and 3rd Streets
Date: 1840s, 1949-10-09
Description: This type dwelling, one of many erected on Second and Third streets in the 1840s, was called a "row." The two doors on the sidewalk level of the building led to a court usually planted in flowers and trees.

Title: American locomotives : being a treatise on the theory of steam, and its application to locomotive engines
Date: 1849, 1849

Title: P-103 Morse, William H. California Gold Rush Correspondence
Date: 1849-04-04
Description: This letter was written in 1849 by a forty-niner in St. Louis, one William H. Morse, to a friend back home in New England. He’s been in St. Louis for three weeks, the last stop on the frontier, as he prepares to embark on a journey westward on the overland trail, making his way to California in search of gold. He describes his 35 day trip thus far, from an unnamed town in the northeast, south through Baltimore to Harpers Ferry, through the Cumberland Gap to Morgantown, where he caught steamboats that carried him to Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, down the Ohio River, and up the Mississippi to St. Louis. Morse provides a colorful commentary along the way, describing the towns and major landmarks he passed.

Title: P-098 Letter from Samuel to his Parents December 1, 1847
Date: 1847-12-01

Title: P-098 Rothgeb, Samuel Correspondence Collection
Date: 1847
Description: Two letters written by Samuel Rothgeb to his parents in 1847. Rothgeb was a young man just off the farm when he took up a position as a merchant and cook aboard a flatboat plying the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers at the twilight of the flatboat age. His letters chronicle storms, river trade, daily rafting life, and more.

Title: P-098 Letter from Samuel to his Parents December 11, 1847
Date: 1847-12-11

Title: Report of the surveys and location of the Towanda Rail Road
Date: 1842, 1842

Title: O.M. Mitchell's report of preliminary recognisance of the country between Cincinnati and St. Louis
Date: 1848
Description: 1848 survey by O. M. Mitchel for the possible course of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad from Cincinnati to St. Louis.

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