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Title: Herman Haupt with Locomotive General Haupt and work crew
Date: 1862, 1862
Description: General Herman Haupt stands on a cut watching a work crew excavate the slope. The USMRR locomotive Genl. Haupt is at the head of the train.

Title: US Military Railroad Locomotive Fred Leach
Date: 1862, 1862
Description: Individuals pointing out damage to USMRR Locomotive Fred Leach.

Title: Detail of Image of Hanover Junction, PA
Date: 1863, 1863

Title: US Military Railroad Locomotive 56
Description: US Military Locomotive 56 at station with troops in formation.

Title: Car Float operation Eastern Theater of War
Description: Car Float made from two canal barges with freight cars in Virginia.

Title: Scene at Hanover Junction, PA During the Civil War
Date: 1863, 1863
Description: Photograph of Train and people at Hanover Junction, PA

Title: Civil War Photographs of Trains
Description: Collection of B&W prints made in the 20th Century of historic images of Civil War railroad scenes. Mainly US Military Railroad images. However there are two prints of Hanover Junction, PA that have been notable in the possibility of the image being one of Abraham Lincoln and party around the time of the Gettysburg Address in November of 1863.

Title: Autobiographical Notes and Memoranda
Date: 1911, 1911

Title: Proceedings of the stockholders of the South-Carolina Rail-Road Company, and the South-Western Railroad Bank, 1866
Date: 1865, 1866

Title: Mrs. Gen. Grant Carte-de-Viste
Date: 1864
Description: Sepia photograph of Mrs. Gen. Grant. Image is of her seated looking towards her right. Pencil inscription on reverse reads "Mrs gen grant".

Title: Grant Carte-de-Visite
Description: Photograph of General Grant by W.P. Jackson of Sedalia, Missouri. Oval photograph with raised flags, laurel, and eagle surrounding. The back states July 4th.

Title: Harper's Magazine - Political Developments of 1864
Description: Article in "Harper's Weekly" depicting "Political Developments Of 1864". On page 667 the happenings of August 1864 are recorded. A large portion is dedicated to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and then-governor of New York Horatio Seymour serving as president of the convention. Page 668 is headlines "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War [September, 1864." The top half of the page contains a drawing of an army camp with soldiers lining up to a table covered in an American flag. The caption reads "Soldiers voting for president." The paragraphs below describe former General George B. McClellan's selection as the Democratic nominee for president in 1864.

Title: Mrs. Julia Dent Grant Photograph
Description: Photograph is of Mrs. Julia Dent Grant. She is looking to her left in photograph. On the back "Mrs. Grant" is written in pencil across the top, with "Julia Dent Grant" written below. In the center there is the logo for G. Cramer. The logo has two cherubs around a stylized GC. Below it the address, "1001 South Fifth Street, Cor. of Chouteau Ave., St. Louis, Mo" is printed.

Title: Lloyd's American Railroad Weekly June 29, 1861
Date: 1861-06-29, 1861-06-29
Description: Single issue of Lloyd's American Railroad Weekly dated June 29, 1861. Contains some news and descriptions of various railroads. Reverse is a large map of the United States in 1861 showing railroads with inset of the area around Ft. Pickens in Florida.

Title: Cynthia E. Barns Letter
Date: 1869
Description: Envelope addressed to Mrs. Cynthia E. Barns of Washington, New Hampshire. In the upper left hand corner is a drawing of Ulysses S. Grant surrounded by a laurel wreath. Under Grant are two American flags. Beneath the picture is text reading "We'll fight it out on this line if it takes all summer". On the back of the envelope, "1869" is written in pen.

Title: Report of the chief engineer upon recent surveys and progress of construction of the Central Pacific Railroad of California.
Date: 1865, 1865

Title: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant
Date: 1868, 1868

Title: Third Series Second Concert St. Louis Philharmonic Society
Date: 1862, 1862
Description: This program for the second concert of the St. Louis Philharmonic Society's third series contains a translation of the Pilgrimage of the Rose. It was conducted by E. Sobolewski with music by Robert Schumann.

Title: Third Series Fourth Concert of the St. Louis Philharmonic Society
Date: 1863, 1863
Description: This is a program from the fourth concert of the St. Louis Philharmonic Society's third series in 1862 conducted by E. Sobolewski.

Title: New York Philharmonic Society Third Season Second Concert
Date: 1845, 1845
Description: This is a program from an 1845 performance of the New York Philharmonic Society in the Apollo Rooms on January 11th. They played works by Haydn, C.M. Weber, L. Spohr, Mozart, Beethoven, and H. Marschner.

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