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

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

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Faulkner Family. Falkner Family Collection, 1887-1902.

Title: Falkner Family Collection, 1887-1902.

Collection of Colonel W.C. Falkner's railroad records at the turn of the twentieth-century.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.251 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/643326418 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

McSweeney, Miles Benjamin, 1855-1909. $1000 reward!... for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who robbed Southern Express Car on Train No. 11... on the evening of January 27, 1902.

Title: $1000 reward!... for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who robbed Southern Express Car on Train No. 11... on the evening of January 27, 1902.

Broadside proclamation from Gov. McSweeney offering $1000 reward for capture of train robbers who struck 27 Jan.1902 "near Fifty-Eight Mile Station" in Dorchester County, S.C.; reward money posted by the State of South Carolina ($400) and the Southern Express Company and the Southern Railway Company ($600).

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet.

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Virginia. Board of Public Works. Southern Express Company records, 1885-1900.

Title: Southern Express Company records, 1885-1900.

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/263420638 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

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Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1843-1918. John Caldwell Calhoun (1843-1918) papers, 1862-1900; (bulk, 1861-1862).

Title: John Caldwell Calhoun (1843-1918) papers, 1862-1900; (bulk, 1861-1862).

Papers and volumes, 1862-1865, re Civil War; Confederate Army regiment reports; special orders; registers; and military correspondence; including company record book, 1862-1865; 2 morning report books, 1862-1865, re Companies "B" and "C", Fourth Regiment, S.C. Cavalry; 5 volumes, 1862-1864, Charleston, Hardeeville, McPhersonville, Pocotaligo, S.C., and other places, recording copies of general and special orders and circulars pertaining to military units. Letter, 28 Mar. 1861, S.C. College, Columbia, S.C., to A[ndrew] P[ickens] Calhoun, acknowledging receipt of money order, evacuation of Fort Sumter and possibility of conflict, departure of young men from Columbia to Charleston, and visit of Wade Hampton to Pendleton, S.C.; 2 receipts, 7 Oct. 1861 and 16 Nov. 1863, from Adams Southern Express Company and Southern Express Company; receipt, 19 may 1862, from A.P. Calhoun, for "one cask wine in bottles." Letter, 29 Mar. 1900, N.Y., to August Kohn, Columbia, S.C., acknowledging circular re alumni record of S.C. College and furnishing biographical data re Col. Andrew Pickens Calhoun, Ja[me]s H[opkins] Adams, and other members of the Calhoun Family; undated biographical sketch of J.C. Calhoun, Jr.; undated envelope with return address, Capt's 2nd Battalion of Cavalry, South Carolina Volunteers; and undated envelope, from American Telephone and Telegraph Company, to J.C. Calhoun at the Mills House, Columbia, S.C.

ArchivalResource: 9 items and 8 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45955224 View

Confederate States of America. Bureau of Conscription. C.S. Plank military records, 1864.

Title: C.S. Plank military records, 1864.

This collection consists of detail papers issued by the Enrolling Office and Conscript Service at Augusta, Georgia, 1864. The first item is a receipt, No. 11, for Plank's detail papers as an Employee of the Southern Express Co. for 91 days; it includes a physical description of Plank. The second item is an assignment of Plank as treasurer and cashier of the Southern Express Co.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (.05 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123765885 View

Southern Express Company. Southern Express Company waybill, 1863.

Title: Southern Express Company waybill, 1863.

Receipt for package to Augusta, Georgia. "War risk excepted" written across printed agreement.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70294189 View

Hawkins, James P. Papers, 1862-1865.

Title: Papers, 1862-1865.

Three diaries (1862-1863) chronicling the Civil War activities of James P. Hawkins, including notes on troop movements of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and the climax of the Peninsula Campaign near Richmond, Va.; together with an autographed letter signed (15 May 1865; 12 p.), from Hawkins at Danville, Va., to his mother, relating to evacuation during the final hours of the siege of Richmond and the southward escape of Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, and other Confederate leaders.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70973095 View

Southern Express Company. [Pamphlet. Financial history.].

Title: [Pamphlet. Financial history.].

ArchivalResource: v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701755377 View

Texas Express Company. Correspondence, 1885.

Title: Correspondence, 1885.

Correspondence between company agents and officers, primarily business concerns between company agents relating to routes, shipments, fees, and salaries. The majority is between E.C. Spence, route agent, C.T. Campbell, superintendent, and H.M. Golibart, assistant superintendent. Included is correspondence with the following express companies and clients: Barrow & Gladney - Dry Goods, Groceries; J.W. Buckman - Cider & Mineral Water; L.M. Gex; Hale of Wildey Lodge, No. 21; N.L. McGinnis & Company - Excelsior Livery Sale & Feed Stable; The Pacific Express Company; Southern Express Company; and Wells Fargo.

ArchivalResource: 69 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79447996 View

Anonymous, fl. 1874. Railroad freight account book, 1874.

Title: Railroad freight account book, 1874.

Volume, 1874, of business records kept by an unidentified employee of a shipping company that maintained offices located along various rail lines running through Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Virginia; entries list employees, railroad lines, shipping rates, and "Annual Statement of Property of the Southern Express Co. located in the Eastern Division on July 1st, 1874." List of prices charged by various railroad lines to ship such items as corpses (which traveled at the first class rate), fruit and vegetables, fish, oysters, ice, safes, dogs, etc. Volume identifies persons employed at each stop and company property held by each office, which suggests some of the services offered; company property held at the Charleston office, for example, listed values for 7 horses, 6 wagons, copy presses, gas fixtures, wax stamps, bed and bedding, a pistol, and other items in the appraisal. Among the many rail lines that appear in this volume are the South Carolina Railroad, the Spartanburg and Union Railroad, and the Blue Ridge Division of the Greenville & Columbia Railroad linking "Anderson & Walhalla." Routes identify stops along various east coast lines running between cities and towns in North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, and northern Georgia. South Carolina offices appear on lists of routes running from Charleston to Florence, S.C., and to Augusta and Savannah, Ga., and elsewhere; between Columbia to Greenville, S.C. and Wilmington, N.C.; and from Charlotte, N.C. to Augusta, Ga. Other routes listed include Richmond, Va., to Wilmington, N.C. and Raleigh, N.C., to Norfolk, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52002929 View

Holshousen family. Records, 1870-1880.

Title: Records, 1870-1880.

Consists of receipts and invoices for goods bought by the Holshousen family. Payment for dry goods, food, whiskey, a horse, and medicine from Memphis, Tennessee and Charleston, Mississippi which were shipped, in some cases, by railroad, steamboat, or Southern Express.

ArchivalResource: 38 items.

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Southern Express Company. Receipt book.

Title: Receipt book.

Receipts for shipments of Confederate treasury notes to various cities in the South.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol.

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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)

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