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Title: Report of the consulting engineer on the location between Omaha City and Platte Valley.
Date: 1865, 1865

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: Troops on Union Pacific Railroad : letter from the Secretary of War in answer to a resolution of House
Date: 1868, 1868

Title: Autobiographical Notes and Memoranda
Date: 1911, 1911

Title: Report of the chief engineer...
Date: 1864, 1864

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: Report of the chief engineer on the preliminary survey and cost of construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, of California,
Date: 1861-10-01, 1861-10-01

Title: B-132 Washington Medal Obverse
Date: 1869, 1869
Description: Obverse side of Washington Medal.

Title: B-132 Washington Medal Reverse
Date: 1869, 1869
Description: Reverse of Washington Medal showing text of the Lord's Prayer.

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: List of corporators of the Union Pacific Railroad Co.
Date: 1862, 1862
Description: List of individuals who incorporated the Union Pacific Railroad Company.

Title: Railroad communication with the Pacific...
Date: 1867, 1867
Description: Description of the Central Pacific Railroad with the aim of promoting mortgage bonds for the company.

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

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