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Title: J. W. Barriger's report on the traffic diversion plan for Potomac Yard in connection with the Fourmile Run Flood Control Project
Date: 1973, 1973
Description: Analysis of traffic impact of bridge project on Fourmile Run in VA.

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: 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: 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: Speech regarding New York Central and PRR Competition for Passenger Traffic
Date: 1937-10-23, 1937-10-23

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: Map Showing Existing Track Layout in Downtown St. Louis
Date: 1930-03
Description: From: Report of the Transportation Survey Commission of the City of St. Louis / submitted to the Board of Aldermen.

Title: Memo Regarding adding Ritz Carlton Restaurant Service to the Broadway Limited
Date: 1928-06-29, 1928-06-29

Title: Memo Regarding PRR Train #11 New York City to Saint Louis
Date: 1928-01-03, 1928-01-03

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

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-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: 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-008 Thomas Hart Benton Collection
Date: 1858, 1858
Description: Created by Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858); early senator from Missouri who served six terms equaling thirty years in office. Included are the handwritten lecture, "Progress of the Age," delivered at the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, 1850; 1 letter from 1829; and 2 letters from 1858, one from J.B. Brant concerning Benton's health. Senator Benton was among the first of many illustrious figures to speak at the St. Louis Mercantile Library on November 14, 1850. This particular speech, presented to the Library by Senator Benton, himself, and several letters make up the Mercantile's small collection of primary materials by or concerning Thomas Hart Benton

Title: Letter from Peter Cooper Feb 15, 1856
Date: 1856-02-15, 1856-02-15
Description: Letter from Peter Cooper in response to the recipient's letter about eye surgery.

Title: Lecture on the Progress of the Age
Date: 1850, 1850
Description: Speech given at the St. Louis Mercantile Library in 1850.

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 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-552 Scudder, John Missouri Hotel Lease Indenture
Date: 1836-11-15
Description: Manuscript lease indenture between John Scudder and Benjamin L. Turnbull to lease the Missouri Hotel in St. Louis. The manuscript, dated November 15, 1836, contains witness signatures and an inventory of hotel goods, including feather-beds, lamps, linens, and a Franklin stove. The document indicates the property will be used as a tavern or house of entertainment, and a list of payments is

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