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Letters, nos. 50-106, Apr. 1899

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Identifier: IC 9 C5.1

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

About 200 letters in 7 folders. Includes correspondence from committee members, newsclippings on Fish's handling of the money after the celebration, programs, accounts, and details of the grand ball held in New York's Metropolitan Opera House on Apr. 30, 1899.

Originally documents had been glued into a bound volume; volume was disbound and documents inside were cleaned, flattened, and separated into folders.

Dates

  • Creation: Apr. 1899

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Illinois Central Railroad Company Archives are open for research; they are available a box at a time in the Special Collections Reading Room (Priority III).

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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