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Title: Railroad Journal
Date: 1832-12-08
Description: Vol I, No 50.

Title: American Railroad Journal
Date: 1835-01-10
Description: Vol IV, No 1.

Title: American Railroad Journal
Date: 1835-08-15
Description: Vol IV, No 32.

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.

Title: Wathen-Ranney House, Cape Girardeau, MO
Date: 1956-03-18
Description: Photo of the Wathen-Ranney House in a snowy March, built in 1839

Title: Sequoyah
Date: 1838
Description: This lithographic portrait of Sequoyah, who was credited with inventing the Cherokee alphabet, was created as part of the McKenney & Hall "History of the Indian Tribes of North America." Sequoyah is shown wearing a blue coat with a red and white headscarf and a peace medal hanging around his neck. He points to a document showing the Cherokee alphabet and is smoking a pipe.

Title: Charles Deas, Portrait of Robert Watts
Date: 1838
Description: Portrait of Robert Watts, nephew of the artist, oil on canvas, 17 inches by 14 inches, 1838.

Title: Charles Deas, Portrait of a Man
Date: 1839
Description: Portrait of a man, possibly of the Atwater family, oil on canvas, 12 1/8 inches by 10 /8 inches, 1839

Title: The death of eminent men a public calamity
Date: 1834, 1834

Title: Reports of committees respecting the rail road depots in the city of Baltimore
Date: 1837, 1837

Title: Portrait of a young man
Date: 1835
Description: Drawing of the head of a young man with inscription above about missionary work in Africa, dated 1835, Berlin; pencil on wove paper, unsigned, 4 3/4 inches x 3 3/8 inches

Title: Festival scene
Date: 1839
Description: Design with stylized floral motif up the left side leading to a festival scene of figures dancing around a maypole in the upper left corner that extends to a generalized landscape across the top. Across the top is a banner reading Paris, le 21 July 1839. Pencil on wove paper, initialed lower left "L G" (Leopold Gast), dated Paris 1839, 8 1/4 inches by 5 1/16 inches

Title: P-094 Milroy, Henry Bruce Diary
Date: 1836
Description: This diary documents Rebecca and Henry Bruce Milroy’s convalescent journey from Washington County, Indiana to Natchez Mississippi, as well as Henry’s return trip after his wife’s death. The 42 page diary includes near daily entries from October 26, 1836 to January 1, 1837. The author describes several towns they pass through, places they stay, steamboats they take passage aboard, people they encounter, and medical treatments Rebecca receives.

Title: M-536 Smith, Charles Army Paymaster Seminole War Correspondence
Date: 1836-10-26
Description: Letter written by Charles H. Smith, an Army Paymaster in the Territory of Florida. Writing from St. Augustine in East Florida, Smith discusses the status of payments to both regular and volunteer troops. He also responds to a letter from Florida territorial governor Richard K. Call. The last page of the letter, which bears an address to Nathaniel Towson, the Paymaster-General of the United States Army, features a St. Augustine postmark and a “FREE” handstamp. The letter is dated October 26, 1836.

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 included on the back.

Title: M-562 Brown, John Trapping Correspondence
Date: 1835-07-07
Description: Letter written by John Brown of Peoria, Illinois to his parents in Morris County, New Jersey. The letter describes plans for possible fur trapping expeditions in the Rocky Mountains and the “Winnebago swamps”. Brown describes the necessary equipment for this kind of expedition and extends an invitation to his friend William Laurence to join the group. He also discusses the rapidly increasing population in the area, the prices of goods, and his work on the construction of the Peoria County Courthouse. The letter is dated July 7, 1835.

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