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Box 17

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

Taxes and other miscellaneous financial records, 1860-1869

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 379-380
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Statements, receipts, invoices, account books, land deeds and agreements, and tax documents relating to the management of land and a coal mining company in Du Quoin, Illinois, owned by Isaac Stevens Metcalf and/or Metcalf’s business partner Chester A. Keyes. Includes land agreements between the two business partners and individuals buying plots of land, payroll information for coal mining labor, invoices for supplies, property tax receipts, and statements of amounts of coal mined per month...
Dates: 1860-1869

Taxes and other miscellaneous financial records, 1897

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 381
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Statements, receipts, invoices, account books, land deeds and agreements, and tax documents relating to the management of land and a coal mining company in Du Quoin, Illinois, owned by Isaac Stevens Metcalf and/or Metcalf’s business partner Chester A. Keyes. Includes land agreements between the two business partners and individuals buying plots of land, payroll information for coal mining labor, invoices for supplies, property tax receipts, and statements of amounts of coal mined per month...
Dates: 1897

Account Books (larger account books also includes Isaac S. Metcalf personal account book, 1855-1858; and Marion Metcalf account book, 1870-1889), 1852-1854

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 382
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Correspondence, accounting records, contracts, drawings, weekly construction reports, payroll information, work estimates, invoices, and receipts documenting the day-to-day construction of the section of the Illinois Central Railroad around Centralia, Illinois. Includes a substantial amount of correspondence between Isaac S. Metcalf and Illinois Central Chief Engineer Roswell B. Mason, who supervised the building of the entire line from Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, between 1851-1856. Metcalf...
Dates: 1855-1858; and Marion Metcalf account book, 1870-1889), 1852-1854

Contracts, 1852, n.d.

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 383
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Correspondence, accounting records, contracts, drawings, weekly construction reports, payroll information, work estimates, invoices, and receipts documenting the day-to-day construction of the section of the Illinois Central Railroad around Centralia, Illinois. Includes a substantial amount of correspondence between Isaac S. Metcalf and Illinois Central Chief Engineer Roswell B. Mason, who supervised the building of the entire line from Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, between 1851-1856. Metcalf...
Dates: n.d.

Correspondence - Ashley, J.F. (Division Engineer), 1854

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 384
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Correspondence, accounting records, contracts, drawings, weekly construction reports, payroll information, work estimates, invoices, and receipts documenting the day-to-day construction of the section of the Illinois Central Railroad around Centralia, Illinois. Includes a substantial amount of correspondence between Isaac S. Metcalf and Illinois Central Chief Engineer Roswell B. Mason, who supervised the building of the entire line from Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, between 1851-1856. Metcalf...
Dates: 1854

Correspondence - Ashley, L.W., 1852-1853

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 385
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Correspondence, accounting records, contracts, drawings, weekly construction reports, payroll information, work estimates, invoices, and receipts documenting the day-to-day construction of the section of the Illinois Central Railroad around Centralia, Illinois. Includes a substantial amount of correspondence between Isaac S. Metcalf and Illinois Central Chief Engineer Roswell B. Mason, who supervised the building of the entire line from Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, between 1851-1856. Metcalf...
Dates: 1852-1853

Correspondence - Calhoun, J.B. (Assistant to R.B. Mason), 1853-1854

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 386-387
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Correspondence, accounting records, contracts, drawings, weekly construction reports, payroll information, work estimates, invoices, and receipts documenting the day-to-day construction of the section of the Illinois Central Railroad around Centralia, Illinois. Includes a substantial amount of correspondence between Isaac S. Metcalf and Illinois Central Chief Engineer Roswell B. Mason, who supervised the building of the entire line from Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, between 1851-1856. Metcalf...
Dates: 1853-1854

Correspondence - Dunham, Collins, 1854

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 388
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Correspondence, accounting records, contracts, drawings, weekly construction reports, payroll information, work estimates, invoices, and receipts documenting the day-to-day construction of the section of the Illinois Central Railroad around Centralia, Illinois. Includes a substantial amount of correspondence between Isaac S. Metcalf and Illinois Central Chief Engineer Roswell B. Mason, who supervised the building of the entire line from Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, between 1851-1856. Metcalf...
Dates: 1854

Correspondence - Fox, Wm. O., 1854

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 389
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Correspondence, accounting records, contracts, drawings, weekly construction reports, payroll information, work estimates, invoices, and receipts documenting the day-to-day construction of the section of the Illinois Central Railroad around Centralia, Illinois. Includes a substantial amount of correspondence between Isaac S. Metcalf and Illinois Central Chief Engineer Roswell B. Mason, who supervised the building of the entire line from Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, between 1851-1856. Metcalf...
Dates: 1854

Correspondence - Holt, Nelson, 1851

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 390
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Correspondence, accounting records, contracts, drawings, weekly construction reports, payroll information, work estimates, invoices, and receipts documenting the day-to-day construction of the section of the Illinois Central Railroad around Centralia, Illinois. Includes a substantial amount of correspondence between Isaac S. Metcalf and Illinois Central Chief Engineer Roswell B. Mason, who supervised the building of the entire line from Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, between 1851-1856. Metcalf...
Dates: 1851

Correspondence - Leavenworth, E., 1851-1854

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 391
Scope and Contents note From the Series: Correspondence, accounting records, contracts, drawings, weekly construction reports, payroll information, work estimates, invoices, and receipts documenting the day-to-day construction of the section of the Illinois Central Railroad around Centralia, Illinois. Includes a substantial amount of correspondence between Isaac S. Metcalf and Illinois Central Chief Engineer Roswell B. Mason, who supervised the building of the entire line from Chicago to Cairo, Illinois, between 1851-1856. Metcalf...
Dates: 1851-1854