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Title: M-013 Maryland Land Grant
Date: 1733-05-01
Description: Royal land grant to Richard Brooks pertaining to 22 acres in Maryland.

Title: M-355: Thomas T. Kerslake Overland Journal from Canada to New Zealand
Date: 1877
Description: Thomas T. Kerslake writes of his travels from Ontario, Canada to New Zealand in 1877. He leaves Plattsville, Ontario, Canada on September 29, 1877. Traveling across the United States by rail, he gives accounts of large and small cities (Chicago, Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Promontory Point, San Francisco) and of the landscape and wild life on the plains and the Mississippi River. At San Francisco he boards the boat "City of Sydney" sailing across the Pacific Ocean, stopping in the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands before landing in Wellington, New Zealand in early November 1877.

Title: Reverse of Dispatcher Sheet Alabama Division Laurel, MS 1-8-1952
Date: 1952-01-08, 1952-01-08
Description: Reverse of Dispatcher sheet from Laurel, MS for the Alabama Division of the GM&O. January 8, 1952.

Title: Reverse of Dispatcher Sheet Alabama Division Laurel, MS 1-7-1952
Date: 1952-01-07, 1952-01-07
Description: Reverse of dispatcher sheet from Laurel, MS for the Alabama Division of the GM&O. 1-7-1952

Title: Dispatcher Sheet Alabama Division Laurel, MS 1-8-1952
Date: 1952-01-08, 1952-01-08
Description: Dispatcher sheet from Laurel, MS for the Alabama Division of the GM&O. January 8, 1952.

Title: Dispatcher Sheet Alabama Division Laurel, MS 1-7-1952
Date: 1952-01-07, 1952-01-07
Description: Dispatcher sheet from Laurel, MS for the Alabama Division of the GM&O. January 7, 1952.

Title: GM&O Dispatcher Sheet Murphysboro, IL
Date: 1966-09-25, 1966-09-25
Description: Dispatcher sheet for Northern Division Office at Murphysboro, Illinois on the GM&O Railroad

Title: Reverse of Murphysboro, IL Dispatcher Sheet
Date: 1966-09-25, 1966-09-25

Title: Reverse of Dispatcher Sheet Alabama Division Laurel, MS 1-6-1952
Date: 1952-01-06, 1952-01-06
Description: Dispatcher sheet from Laurel, MS for the Alabama Division of the GM&O.

Title: Dispatcher Sheet Alabama Division Laurel, MS 1-6-1952
Date: 1952-01-06, 1952-01-06
Description: Dispatcher sheet from Laurel, MS for the Alabama Division of the GM&O.

Title: J. L. McFeeters Journal
Description: The J.L. McFeeters Journal 1904 collection consists of a single journal that Capt. J.L. McFeeters wrote in daily. Entries include details on the weather and river water levels but also include details of Capt. McFeeters personal and work life. Capt. McFeeters discussed the deaths of political figures and friends, ship fires on the Edgar Cheery and Mayflower, and his bank account records. Capt. McFeeters also references W.L. Sibert several times who was promoted from Caption to Major by President T. Roosevelt in 1904. Capt. McFeeters worked on a snag boat in 1904.

Title: Minutes of 10-24-1962 Meeting
Date: 1962-10-24, 1962-10-24
Description: Minutes of a meeting held in the executive conference room of the P&LE building regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis and the P&LE Railroad.

Title: M-313 Rev. John B. Meachum Collection

Title: The Valley Railroad of Virginia
Date: 1930-08-11, 1930-08-11
Description: A report created by the Operating Department of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to analyze the viability of the Valley Railroad of Virginia and provide summary recommendation to management about the disposition of the property

Title: Corporate histories of Camas Prairie Railroad and Washington & Idaho Railroad (subsidiaries).
Date: 1920, 1920

Title: Verified Satement of John W. Barriger
Date: 1971, 1971-12-10
Description: Written testimony by John W. Barriger relating to an emergency freight rate surcharge for 1972.

Title: Cookbook, ca. 1865
Date: 1865
Description: This manuscript cookbook contains hand-written recipes as well as tipped in newspaper clippings on the creation of household goods and home remedies.

Title: M-021: Henry G. A. Caspers Journal
Date: 1846-06-13
Description: Henry G.A. Caspers was corporal, later promoted to sergeant, in the artillery company of Capt. Fischer, organized in St. Louis, Missouri. At Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, the company was mustered into the service of Col. Kearney. Most of Casper's military service was served in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, during the time of the Mexican War. This journal dates from June 13, 1846 - December 1848. Caspers included lists of company members; duties and battles; plus references to Col. Doniphan's victory at Chihuahua, Mexico; General Kearney's march to California; and the murders of Santa Fe Governor Bent in Taos, New Mexico., 1 small leather-bound, handwritten volume. 34 pp.

Title: M-078: Quincy Library [Illinois] 1841-1857
Date: 1841
Description: Handwritten record of books purchased by Quincy Library [Illinois], date and price, 1841-1857.

Title: Letter from John Rogers to B&O Railroad for post as Assistant Superintendent
Date: 1828-05-12, 1828-05-12
Description: Letter from John Rogers, a machinist based in Baltimore, to be an Assistant Superintendent for the B&O Railroad.

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