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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: Saint Louis Lyceum Meeting Record
Date: 1838
Description: The meeting record of the Saint Louis Lyceum is a large hand-written book recording the institution's founding constitution, by-laws, and meeting minutes as recorded by various elected secretaries. It documents the organizations membership, lectures, and debated questions from 1838 into the 1840s.

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: M-022: August Chouteau Journal
Description: Great Britain and suppression of Indian hostilities. The journal is a fragment of Chouteau's "Narrative of the Settlement of St. Louis." It is the only eyewitness documentation on the activities surrounding the founding of St. Louis. A literal translation from the original manuscript by J. Givin Brown and J. Wilmer Stith was published by the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association in 1857 in the

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: 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: M-380: Hungarian March
Date: 1867
Description: Framed musical score for Franz Liszt's Hungarian March, composed for the coronation of Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, as King of Hungary in 1867.

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

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: Saint Louis Lyceum Circulation Record
Description: Circulation record for the Saint Louis Lyceum, a subscription library and debating club in St. Louis that existed from 1838 to 1851. The record indicates that 870 members borrowed 10,983 volumes from the institution at an unknown time.

Title: M-393: Sale of Real Estate Broadside and Manuscript
Date: 1831-02-14
Description: I Jno. K. Walker Sheriff as hereby certify that caused to be put up at the following named places a copy of this advertisement twenty days before the sale -- before the 30th day of March 1831 at the court house doors, at Fashnughty Barber Shop, at the Missouri Hotel at the city Hotel, at the Green Tree Tavern in the city of St. Louis, at Phillys Tavern in Bonhomnic, at Blacksmith Shop 5 miles east of Manchester, at -- Store in Manchester, at Lamisi Store in same place, -- McDonald's Mill in St. Ferdinand Township at Owens Station at Thomas Shop, at Connelly Grocery in Florissant, and at I. Aubuchon's -- same village, one at H. Jofo Tavern on Florissant Road -- at Darny -- Loc -- -- in St. Louis Township. Ten of the most public places in the county. Shff cost $5.00 Jno. K. Walker Shff.

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