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Scherff, Ernst, 1826-1897. Ernst Scherff papers, 1860-1881, (bulk 1868-1876).

Title: Ernst Scherff papers, 1860-1881, (bulk 1868-1876).

Correspondence, financial documents, and printed materials (1860-1881) document the business dealings of Ernst Scherff, dealer in dry goods, groceries, and general merchandise, between 1860 and 1887 in New Braunfels, Texas. Written in German, the correspondence records transactions between Scherff and wholesale suppliers in San Antonio, Houston, and Indianola, Texas, New Orleans, Louisiana, St. Louis, Missouri, and New York, New York, including Stromeyer & Co. 47 bills of lading include papers from the following companies: G.H. & S.A.R.W. Co., Missouri, Kansas & Texas R.R., St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern R.R., and Western R.R. of Alabama. Financial documents include invoices, checks, receipts, and statements. 86 circulars (1867-1878), including New Orleans Cotton and Produce Circular, and New Orleans Price Current, and 77 price lists (1867-1874) of Evans, Gardner & Co., J.M. Lewis & Co., Jehial Read & Co., R.W. Rood & Sons., H. Runge & Co., Schmidt & Ziegler, G. Seegligson, J.W. Sheerer & Co., and Wagner & Rummel document the types of goods being offered for sale along with the prices of the times. Six advertisements (c. 1866-1878) contain illustrations of farm machinery, carriages, wagons, guns, and dry goods. Of the 719 documents, 390 were glued to the pages of two apparel catalogs from 1936 and have not been removed. There is no discernible arrangement to these documents.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.4 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47139248 View

Willrich, George. George Willrich law brief collection : Supreme Court of Texas, 1885-1895.

Title: George Willrich law brief collection : Supreme Court of Texas, 1885-1895.

ArchivalResource: 16 items ; 21-25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48452827 View

Henry Carter Adams papers

Title: Henry Carter Adams papers

Professor of economics at University of Michigan, 1880-1921, statistician for the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1887-1911, developed standard accounting procedures for railroads. Papers include personal and professional correspondence, diaries, travel journals, drafts of books, letter books, reports and printed materials concerning his work with the Interstate Commerce Commission, his activities as an expert witness in railroad compensation and tax cases, and University of Michigan affairs.

ArchivalResource: 30.3 linear ft.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851790?rgn=main;view=text View

Adams, Henry C. (Henry Carter), 1851-1921. Henry Carter Adams papers, 1864-1924.

Title: Henry Carter Adams papers, 1864-1924.

Personal and professional correspondence, diaries, travel journals, drafts of books, letter books, reports and printed materials concerning his work with the Interstate Commerce Commission, his activities as an expert witness in railroad compensation and tax cases, and University of Michigan affairs. Correspondents include: Bertha H. Adams, Charles Kendall Adams, Elizabeth Douglass Adams, Ephraim Adams, Ephraim Douglass Adams, Herbert Baxter Adams, Jane Addams, W.B. Allison, James B. Angell, Ray. Stannard Baker, Hamilton M. Bartlett, Samuel W. Beakes, Edward W. Bemis, Louis Brandeis, W.C. Brown, Charles J. Bullock, Marion L. Burton, Nicholas Murray Butler, James H. Canfield, John Bates Clark, William L. Clements, John R. Commons, Charles Horton Cooley, Mortimer E. Cooley, Thomas M. Cooley, William Dawson, Davis R. Dewey, John Dewey, Frank Dixon, M.L. D'Ooge, Stephen B. Elkins, Richard T. Ely, Fred Fairchild, Frank A. Fetter, Irving Fisher, Franklin H. Giddings, W.S. Gifford, Daniel Coit. Gilman, Thomas P. Gore, Arthur T. Hadley, Albert Bushnell Hart, Jacob H. Hollander, Albert J. Hopkins, Charles Henry Hull, Harry Burns Hutchins, Edmund J. James, John Franklin Jameson, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, David Starr Jordan, George Wells Knight, J. Laurence Laughlin, David Lewis, Frank A. Manny, Richmond Mayo-Smith, Edwin D. Mead, Chase S. Osborn, Walter Hines Page, Frederic L. Paxson, J.L. Pickard, William Z. Ripley, Henry Wade Rogers, William M. Salter, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Correspondents include: William Thompson Sedgwick, Edwin R. Seligman, Isaiah L. Sharfman, Albert Shaw, Albion Woodbury Small, Henry C. Smith, J.M.C. Smith, James Allen Smith, Augustus O. Stanley, F.W. Taussig, Graham Taylor, Calvin Thomas, Charles A. Towne, Charles W. Townsend, Moses Coit Tyler, Charles R. VanHise, Victor C. Vaughan, Lester F. Ward, David A. Wells, Benjamin Wheeler, Andrew Dickson White, Delos F. Wilcox, Walter F. Wilcox, John S. Williams and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 30 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34423612 View

Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company. [Mortgages, indentures, and trust agreements of the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway].

Title: [Mortgages, indentures, and trust agreements of the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway]. [1871-1910]

ArchivalResource: 6 pieces ; 24-36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54311274 View

Wilson, Hugh Bascom. Hugh Bascom Wilson railroad collection.

Title: Hugh Bascom Wilson railroad collection.

Consists of materials relating to the history of the El Paso Division of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Materials include books, photographs, maps, periodicals, blueprints, blue line drawings, reports, bulletins, and correspondence. Also included is a copy of a manuscript that was written in 1923 by Clifford R. Morrill and then revised in 1970 by Hugh B. Wilson titled "Railroad History: El Paso Division, Southern Pacific."

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft., 3 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37801020 View

Willrich, George. George Willrich law brief collection : Court of Civil Appeals of the First Supreme Judicial District of Texas. Part 2, 1894-1902.

Title: George Willrich law brief collection : Court of Civil Appeals of the First Supreme Judicial District of Texas. Part 2, 1894-1902.

ArchivalResource: 33 items ; 20-25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48454223 View

Transcontinental Association. Memorandum of agreement made and entered into this-- day of-- 1884.

Title: Memorandum of agreement made and entered into this-- day of-- 1884. 1884.

ArchivalResource: 10 sheets, unbound ; 30 cm. + 7 p. (28 cm).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62869433 View

Willrich, George. George Willrich law brief collection : Court of Civil Appeals of the First Supreme Judicial District of Texas. Part 1, 1887-1894.

Title: George Willrich law brief collection : Court of Civil Appeals of the First Supreme Judicial District of Texas. Part 1, 1887-1894.

ArchivalResource: 24 items ; 21-24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48453411 View

Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company. Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company records, 1888, 1896.

Title: Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company records, 1888, 1896.

Correspondence concern legal and financial aspects of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company, 1888, 1896.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35393330 View