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Boyd, E. E., b. ca.1828 Mrs. Letter, 1861 Mar. 10, Haunted Castle, S.C., from Bro[ther] Andrew, Columbia, S.C.

Title: Letter, 1861 Mar. 10, Haunted Castle, S.C., from Bro[ther] Andrew, Columbia, S.C.

Letter noting that he had instructed brother Patrick to forward Godey's [Lady's Book] as soon as it arrived at Glass's and explaining that he had not subscribed for the entire year because he "thought it very uncertain how long the mail facilities would last ..." Letter reports the express business was keeping him busy but the business of merchants in Columbia, S.C., was very dull. It further advises that she plant plenty of corn for fear of food shortages and thanks her for the bottle of an unidentified alcoholic beverage she had sent, noting that he did not plan to share with Brother Patrick "for fear his appetite for drink will overcome his determination not to drink." The letter was written on letterhead of the Adams Southern Express, apparently the employer of "Brother Andrew." Included with the letter is the stampless Adams Express Company envelope in which it was shipped.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166887324 View

Seymour family. Letters of the Seymour family 1846-1847.

Title: Letters of the Seymour family 1846-1847.

The collection consists of letters to Dr. George S. Seymour, Litchfield, Conn, from his brother John S. Seymour and from Edward P. Cheney, who were salesman for the distribution of medical devices in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Their letters discuss the splint business, travel hardships, freight problems, orders, and sales territory disputes.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49361680 View

Norfolk & Western Financial Documents, 1882-1954, (Bulk, 1884-1916)

Title: Norfolk & Western Financial Documents, 1882-1954 (Bulk, 1884-1916)

The collection contains bills and invoices from Norfolk & Western Railroad, Norfolk & Western Railway, and several subsidiaries and contracted companies.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 cu. ft.; 4 boxes

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00752.xml View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Adams Express Company records, 1886-1900.

Title: Adams Express Company records, 1886-1900.

These records contain reports made to the Auditor of Public Accounts "by express, steamship and steamboat companies, who may run steamships, steamboats, vessels, or barges, or other floating property, for the transportation of passengers or freight," concerning equipment, real estate, and gross income.

ArchivalResource: 1 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262972237 View

Virginia railway certificates.

Title: Virginia railway certificates.

5 handwritten Virginia railway certificates, including bills of lading, freight and freightage, and railroads of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647884741 View

Reading Company. Records, 1795-1979.

Title: Records, 1795-1979.

The archive consists of the corporate records of the Reading Company (1871-1976), the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company (1833-1896), the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company (1896-1923), and 159 predecessors and subsidiaries. Record types include minutes, account books, securities records, reports and agreements. Departmental records are available for the parent company, primarily from the various officers of the Operating Department, the Legal Department, the Secretary and Treasurer. Fragments of presidential correspondence are also available, especially for J. S. Harris and A. A. McLeod. Departmental records contain abundant detail on operating, technical and labor matters, with coverage relatively complete for the 1860-1914 period. Of special interest are papers relating to the Molly Maguires in the 1870s.

ArchivalResource: 1,131 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516026 View

Doram, Dennis, Jr. ca. 1797-1869. Doram-Rowe Family Collection, 1829-1975 (Bulk 1829-1901).

Title: Doram-Rowe Family Collection, 1829-1975 (Bulk 1829-1901).

The Doram-Rowe Family Collection, donated by Mrs. Viola Gross, currently consists of original documents pertaining to this African Amerian family from Danville, Kentucky. The collection includes land records, depositions, indentures, receipts, court records, original poetry, and periodical publications and newspapers. The bulk of the collection 's date range is from 1829-1901. Many of the items provide evidence for the family's acquisition of land in the town of Danville and in Boyle County along the Dix River. Additionally, there are a number of letters and envelopes bearing the "Adams Express Company" imprint from soldiers in the U.S.C.T. 114th Regiment. There are also letters from Robert Doram who served in West Texas as a "Buffalo Soldier" in the 1870s.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic foot (1 oversized box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62869332 View

Adams Southern Express Company. Records, 1861.

Title: Records, 1861.

Includes letter, 10 Mar. 1861, Columbia, S.C., from Andrew to "Sis" re uncertain future of postal service, noting "business of merchants very dull," and advising her to plant plenty of corn; also includes undated broadside promoting the business and its services under original name, Adams' Express Company, illustrated with image of early locomotive.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38202223 View

J.P. Morgan & Co. Loan to Adams Express Co. : syndicate records, 1916 Apr. 1.

Title: Loan to Adams Express Co. : syndicate records, 1916 Apr. 1.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270914226 View

Rand, Charles Edward, 1833-. Letters, 1852-1857.

Title: Letters, 1852-1857.

The letters describe life in San Francisco; political activities, locally and nationally; the Vigilance Committee of 1856; the filibustering expeditions of William Walker and Henry A. Crabb into Sonora; the panic of the banking houses; fires; the murder of James King of William; the many immigrants;the arrival and departure of ships; squatters' rights; the Australian gold rush;trade; and many references to people from Massachusetts. With an ALS from Seth H. Wetherbee to Maj. Thomas Rand, 1856 Sep 4, concerning the upcoming trail of Charles Rand and an ALS from Thomas Rand to his brother Edward, 1856 Oct 19, summarizing the events surrounding the trial.

ArchivalResource: 178 items (in 1 case).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702127337 View

Hankla Family. Hankla family documents, 1879-1886.

Title: Hankla family documents, 1879-1886.

This collection contains an 1879 bill of sale for cattle, an 1880 Post Office registry receipt, an 1882 Adams Express Company receipt, and an 1886 letter. The letter is from J.A. Ramey, who lived in California, to her uncle Mr. L.G. Hankley [Hankla] whose residence was at Perryville, Kentucky. The letter makes arrangement for the repayment of a loan, and also gives family news.

ArchivalResource: 4 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191699457 View

Day, C. M. (Cassius Marion), 1864-1940. C.M. Day collection 1894-1949.

Title: C.M. Day collection 1894-1949.

Correspondence; reports; contracts; journals; letter book; scrapbook; rosters; ephemera from Adams Express Co., American Railway Express, and Railway Express Co. and various Denver, Colorado civic organizations. Photographs: portraits of an actor and actress from a production of "She passed through Laramie" and sketches of sets for the "Emperor Jones" produced at the University Civic Theatre, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado. Portraits of C.M. Day and images of unidentified men, women, and children in probably Colorado. Some views of Mexico and the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Postcards of the 32nd Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar. Photographs of men haying. Album contains studio and group portraits of Native American men, women, and children taken at the Festival of Mountain and Plain by photographers Rose & Hopkins in 1899. Tribes and groups represented include: Ute, Arapaho, Pueblo, Shoshone, and Wiminuche.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft. (2 boxes), 1 oversize box. + 1 box (37 photographic prints, 9 postcards, 1 photomechanical print) + 1 announcement, 1 album (47 photographic prints) + 1 piece of stationary.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26891065 View

Massachusetts Military State Agency (Washington. D.C.). Courier company receipts, 1863-1870.

Title: Courier company receipts, 1863-1870.

Subseries (1) consists of three receipt books, May 1863-July 1865, for goods sent from the State Agency in Washington by Gardiner Tufts to families of soldiers primarily in Massachusetts, via Harnden Express, a private courier company. Subseries (2) contains receipt books, June 1863-Apr. 1870, for monies or personal papers (with valuation given) sent by Tufts to families of soldiers in the field, via Harnden Express. Monies were most likely sent at request of soldiers, representing pay or bounties, or on behalf of deceased soldiers. Post-war entries are often addressed to the adjutant general's office or to Surgeon General Dale, and chiefly consist of muster or other soldier rolls. Additional Harnden Express records are in: Administrative records, 1862-1869 ((M-Ar)703X)

ArchivalResource: 0.16 cubic ft. (6 v. in 1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180702158 View

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of First Vice President (Finance and Accounting). Records, 1900-1909.

Title: Records, 1900-1909.

ArchivalResource: 16 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122648831 View

Adams Express Company. Miscellaneous records, 1863-1903.

Title: Miscellaneous records, 1863-1903.

Freight orders, receipts, and copy of advertisement, of a freight company in York, Pa.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70970201 View

McCullough, Hall Park, 1872-1966. Hall Park McCullough papers, 1867-1938.

Title: Hall Park McCullough papers, 1867-1938.

Scattered correspondence of McCullough chiefly relating to personal and family affairs.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/681607310 View

Wilmington Trust Company. Trust Dept. Investment analysis files ("A"), 1909-1959 (bulk 1931-1954).

Title: Investment analysis files ("A"), 1909-1959 (bulk 1931-1954).

The records contain some information on the workings of the Trust Dept., but are more useful for the information they contain on the individual companies in which the department invested.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86134237 View

Adams Express Company. Adams & Co. signature book : ADS, 1849-1854.

Title: Adams & Co. signature book : ADS, 1849-1854.

Leatherbound book containing signatures of 2500 depositors for the San Francisco branch of Adams & Co. Includes a sheet of 47 names laid in.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 300 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145416713 View

McHarg, D. P. Correspondence of D. P. McHarg, 1852-1923.

Title: Correspondence of D. P. McHarg, 1852-1923.

The majority of the letters are written by D. P. McHarg to his mother. McHarg's first letter was written while he was on his voyage to California aboard the ship Grecian. In his letters from California, he discusses the conditions in the gold camps, the gold miners with whom he does business, the financial crisis of 1855 and the failing of the Adams Express Company, as well as his opinions about slavery and the Civil War. There are five letters written by McHarg to his wife Fannie while he was in New York City in 1873; in these letters he discusses the stock market crash of 1873. There is one letter by New York Senator Elihu Root to McHarg's wife Fannie.

ArchivalResource: 36 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510374 View

Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31-ead.xml View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216647 View

Smithsonian Archives. Ru 52: Assistant Secretary, Incoming Correspondenc.

Title: Smithsonian Archives. Ru 52: Assistant Secretary, Incoming Correspondenc.

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Adams Express Company. Manifest via Panama : manifest of merchandise, shipped by Adams & Co. on board the steamer [Georgia], [Porter] master, for Chagres intended to be transported, via the Isthmus of Panama to San Francisco, Cal., New-York [December 23] 185[1], 1851 Dec. 23.

Title: Manifest via Panama : manifest of merchandise, shipped by Adams & Co. on board the steamer [Georgia], [Porter] master, for Chagres intended to be transported, via the Isthmus of Panama to San Francisco, Cal., New-York [December 23] 185[1], 1851 Dec. 23.

Duplicate copy of an Adams & Co. [i.e. Adams Express Company] shipping manifest for goods being transported from New York to California via the Isthmus of Panama listing the recipients, final destinations (mostly San Francisco, Sacramento, and Stockton), the number of articles, description, and value. Among the shippers listed are author Charles P. Kimball (32 books valued at $75), Reynold's & Co. in Sacramento, R. D. Butts, Cooke & Lecount, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768783492 View

Union soldier Townsend Civil War letters, 1863-1864.

Title: Union soldier Townsend Civil War letters, 1863-1864.

Two letters addressed to "Brother" from Townsend writing from New Orleans, La. Letter dated Aug. 11, 1863 says that he will be bound for home on sick leave on the steamer Creole. He mentions that Captain Swift must be home by now and that he (Townsend) should prefer not to stay in camp with his regiment if they will not be drilled and organized. Letter dated Jan. 29, 1864 discusses the shipping of a box via A. S. Blake of Adams Express Co., and requests that a "uniform frock coat with cavalry buttons" be sent as soon as possible. He ends by saying that Col. Chickering took command of the regiment that day.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/268810189 View

Bullock, Rufus B. (Rufus Brown), 1834-1907. Papers of Rufus B. Bullock, 1851-1895 (bulk 1868-1876).

Title: Papers of Rufus B. Bullock, 1851-1895 (bulk 1868-1876).

Miscellaneous professional and personal correspondence of Rufus Brown Bullock. Included are individual pieces relating to the charges against Bullock, his career in the Republican Party, and his interest in spiritualism.

ArchivalResource: 41 pieces, also ephemera and newspaper clippings.1 case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228732721 View

Adams Express Company. Adams & Co. records, 1852-1854.

Title: Adams & Co. records, 1852-1854.

Banking and express records acquired from various sources (noted on folders),

ArchivalResource: 2 portfolios.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743388603 View

Records of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Title: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard.

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/355 View

U.S. Congress, Office Of The Architect Of The Capitol. File: Smithsonian Institution, General Information.

Title: U.S. Congress, Office Of The Architect Of The Capitol. File: Smithsonian Institution, General Information.

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Van Houten, Charles. Charles Van Houten papers, circa 1851-1868.

Title: Charles Van Houten papers, circa 1851-1868.

Three diaries (1851, 1854, 1854: some dated entries) and personal correspondence of Gold Rush miner, Charles van Houten, describing his travels from Sunbury, Ohio to Marysville, Calif. via Panama and experiences in California. Diaries provide details of travel, costs, dates of departure and arrival at various stops, money and gold nuggets sent home, and gold miner life such as his tent being invaded by Indians who drew arrows on him, smallpox raging all around, a murdered miner's body found, and the hanging of an Indian. Also includes four Adams & Co, Express bonds (two made out to Peter R. Van Houten). The bulk of the correspondence is between Charles Van Houten and Miss Harriet (Hattie) Jones who eventually marry. Includes their marriage certificate (Jan. 6, 1857 ) signed by minister Stephen Fant. Also includes correspondence (3 letters) of Rev. P. (Peter) R. Van Houten from Galena, Ohio [i.e. Rarden, Ohio], one addressed to brother Charles and two as the recipient from David Groesbeeck (New York, N.Y.) with accompanying printed material regarding Dutch heirs in a land dispute with Trinity Church of New York City titled: 'To the heirs of Anneka Jantz [sic] Bogardus."

ArchivalResource: 1 box, 3 volumes, 1 oversize folder (0.6 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/636095121 View

Colorado express companies : [collection] : 1860-1982 ; manuscript.

Title: Colorado express companies : [collection] : 1860-1982 ; manuscript.

Collection consists of clippings, pamphlets, certificates, and other ephemera related to a number of express and stage companies operating in early-day Colorado. Many of these companies helped to establish travel and communication routes, and carried mail, freight, and passengers in the west between 1849 and 1865. The materials in this collection were culled from the Colorado Historical Society's ephemera collection.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/668218484 View

Adams Express Company. Adams Express Company Journal, 1855-1863.

Title: Adams Express Company Journal, 1855-1863.

This journal contains entries for deliveries made by the Adams Express Company from September 7, 1855 to November 1, 1863. The bulk of the entries are for the delivery of money though there are a few items listed and one entry for the delivery of a "Negro woman named Ann ..." There are several entries for deliveries made to the officers and men of the 35th Ohio Infantry Regiment while serving in Kentucky.

ArchivalResource: Journal : 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32635870 View

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Financial Dept. Records of Vice President Henry Tatnall, 1897-1940 (bulk 1909-1940).

Title: Records of Vice President Henry Tatnall, 1897-1940 (bulk 1909-1940).

The records of Henry Tatnall cover his career from his appointment as fourth vice president in 1909 to his retirement in 1925. There are a few extraneous letters extending the range from 1897 to 1940.

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122333740 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216640 View

Adams Express Company. Adams & Co. deposit slips : ADS, 1853-1854.

Title: Adams & Co. deposit slips : ADS, 1853-1854.

Three deposit slips issued by Adams & Co. branch offices in Stockton, San Francisco, and Sacramento.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (0.1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499126 View

Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Office of Secretary. Board files, 1843-1950 [microform].

Title: Board files, 1843-1950 [microform].

The records consist of microfilm copies of the board files made as a precaution during World War II and the Korean War. No attempt was made to correct misfiles or provide target cards during the microfilming. Consequently, the documents within individual files are not in strict chronological order, and some documents are misfiled. The post-1950 board file exists only in hard copy at the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission.

ArchivalResource: 94 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122458394 View

Probert, David, 1836?-. Papers of David Probert [manuscript], 1863-1871 (bulk 1864).

Title: Papers of David Probert [manuscript], 1863-1871 (bulk 1864).

Collection includes diary, 1864, recording Probert's experiences as a carpenter for the Bridge Department of the United States Military Railroad in and around Alexandria, Va. Brief entries mention an explosion, 1864 August 9, at City Point, Va., caused by Confederate sabotage and reactions to Jubal Early's Washington Raid, July 13 and 14. In addition to the diary are records of transactions, 1863-1864, between Probert and the Adams Express Company, his oath of allegiance, a pass allowing him to visit Petersburg, Va., a certificate of enrollment from the Nashville Provost's office, his honorable discharge allowing him to travel for half fare; a permit allowing him to travel on United States Military Railroads and an 1871 obituary of Thomas Probert.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647808384 View